From: Glenn Shaw (milspectruck@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2006 - 16:30:42 PDT
Hi Ryan
Glenn
Ryan Gill wrote:
I wonder if those are the CNN humvees I saw on TV filing the embedded
reports during the advance into Iraq. Sounds like they are. I remember
that one of the ones I saw was a civ Hummer with the large equip basket
like a safari vehicle would have and the Sat dish.
> At 4:26 PM -0400 4/11/06, Glenn Shaw wrote:
>
>> Chuck hit it right on. There are less than 10 legal humvees which are not from those sales in the US. They were going for 50,000 to 70,000 prior to the large sales.
>>
>
> There will be one more M998 Slantback if the chap a couple of floors down says what happens happens. We had 2 vehicles come back from Iraq. Both were purchased by our then President Eason Jordan in Kuwait. One is a civilian Hummer with Arabic on everything. The other is a surplus M998 slantback with the winch and weapons mount ring. Both received a large 'safari' basket on top for stowage of news equipment and mounting of a mobile satellite antenna.
>
> They're to be sold because our vaunted news managers don't fathom the idea of rebuilding needed vehicles and would rather buy them from Akbar's Offroad when the balloon goes up again and we need news vehicles that are least likely to be shot at by US forces when paralleling their advances. You should have seen how the winch was bolted onto the front of the Hummer. Someone gas axed holes in the front frame to attach the bumper and bolted it up with grade 1 bolts. I'd have not wanted to be near that winch when it failed if it were to be used.
>
> Anyhow, expect to see two CNN vehicles, both in desert Tan. One Hummer and One M998 on E-Pay sometime in the future.
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