> David C. Decker wrote:
> >
> > Hello List. I posted this source of MV parts awhile back, but with a lot
> > of inquiries coming up, I thought I would do it again.
> > Jack's Gov't. Surplus
> 9
> >
> > Jack has been in business for at least 25 years and in well known in the
> > southwest
> > If anyone who reads this has any negative things to say about the man,
> > please do it, if he has 'burned' anyone I would like to know.
>
> David & members
>
> I am familiar w/Jack's. Have been there a couple of times when Ive been
> in TUS. However I went there w/cash in hand & a full legal pad page of
> parts that I was after. He did let me wander the yard wich was cool, but
> when it got down to the business at hand he said "all I do is build &
> sell complete vehicles" I dont sell parts. :( Yep disapointing! He
> has so much stuff I couldn't fathom the answer to what I was after. Oh
> well maybe it was a bad day. I did talk to other surplus yard owners in
> the area & they said hell let go of parts if he's in a squeeze for $$,
> but with all that stuff I figure money isnt a prob.
>
> Just an experience. Anyone else?
> Paul Vandervort
> MVPA 437
I have to agree with these two gentlemen that a trip to Jack's is quite
an experience. It is better than most museums. Jack is a very friendly
person and did not hesitate to invite me to look around the yard. I saw
trucks pulled in from the Gila Bend gunnery range with shell holes
through them and 50 miles on the speedo. I saw mules crated and stacked
way over my head. I did not see much armor. Mainly trucks and Jeeps.
It is almost impossible to get a part out of Jack. I tried to buy a
lifting shackle bracket for the front bumper of my M38A1. Jack's price
was $40, I paid $2 at a meet later on. I was bidding against Jack for an
M38A1 at the University of Arizona sale and he bid twice what I was
willing to go. He did tell me he would pay a premium price for M38A1s
with limited slip differentials, this one may of had it as I wouldn't be
able to recognize it myself. It was a USMC vehicle and that is what Jack
had told me had limited slips.
If your in Tucson go visit Jack on Drexal Road it's worth the trip and
you are right around the corner from one of the best air museums in the
country, Pima Air and Space well worth the stop and also Davis Monthan
AFB where there are usually 5000 planes in storage at any one time
There is another place in Tucson to see MVs and thats on First Avenue
south of Fort Lowell at a Liquor Store. There is always an MV out front
advertising the special and the yard behind is full of vehicles. I have
never stopped but read in the paper they are rented out for movies.
Ben P. Fisehr, Jr.
Corona, Az.
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