From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Oct 23 2004 - 00:13:22 PDT
Hmmmm, and where would this place be? :-)
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From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Humvees Auctioned to Civilians
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> From: "Julian Burke" <julian@knology.net>
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> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 4:54 PM
> Subject: [MV] Humvees Auctioned to Civilians
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>> The gov't doesn't sell them to anyone except other Federal or State
>> entities. Humvees that are unserviceable or junk are cannibalized and/or
>> scrapped by mutilation. That's the story. Julian Burke
>
> Mostly. Some have come out through GSA as 'residue' vehicles ranging from
> "anyone got a set of glow plugs?" to heavily cannibalized frames and
> bodies.
> I don't have the whole story from GL but apparently any HMMWV that's
> remotely salvageable gets shipped to some central place in the 'states and
> either scrapped or reworked for overseas customers. Even dogfood body
> remnants that a million monkeys with body hammers couldn't sort out in a
> lifetime have gone the same route rather than wind up in a local GL sale
> or
> the scrapyard, so..go figure.
>
> (My favourite 'excess' had to be a series of geared hubs which showed up
> on
> the market which had the ball-joint mounts cut off with oxy-acet
> equipment.
> Then GL had brand new geared hubs for sale some time after on a sale with
> no
> EUC required. Umyeah.)
>
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