From: Bill Chambers (bchambers@hoovers.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 09:45:38 PDT
As having been on the side delivering the beasts to the auction...
Always remember that the average Military Vehicle gets beat to hell!
I have had kids put water in engines, gas in diesels and oil on the ground.
Your average driver is 19 and does not give a rat's arse about really being
nice to it.
Sorta the fleet vehicle's from hell! As long as it can run, pass inspection
and such, he/she jumps in and goes!
GSA would not have them if they were perfect, or even semi perfect in most
cases.
I also have rarely seen a MT Chief not remove certain hard to get parts from
just about all vehicles that were leaving us.
regards,
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: MVTrucker@aol.com [mailto:MVTrucker@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:24 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] Looking for a M35A2--Are auction vehicles
generallydrivable?
Many of you Listers summed the situation up real good.
My thanks to those that made reference to me, I sure do
appreciate it.
In most of my purchases I'm lucky to get one or two trucks
out of five that are runners after installing batteries.
From there it's a grand or two in getting a truck ready for
resale. The ones that really hurt are the trucks with a
broken crankshaft, bad injector pump, blown transmission
or transfer case. No brakes, missing or defective alternator,
broken glass, missing seats and so on I take for granted -
part of the game but it sure kicks a profit in the head.
Joe Young
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