From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sat Oct 23 2004 - 06:05:19 PDT
What is that Darrell?
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: Darrell Ramsell <daram@comcast.net>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 3:38 AM
Subject: [MV] M-249
> Gent
>
> I just bought an replica airsoft M-249 for my HMMWV and it's a beauty.
It's
> unfortunate that you can't send picture but if someone can create a link
for
> all to see I'll send you the picture.
>
> Darrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darrell Ramsell" <daram@comcast.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 12:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Humvees Auctioned to Civilians
>
>
> > Hmmmm, and where would this place be? :-)
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
> >
> >
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Julian Burke" <julian@knology.net>
> >> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 4:54 PM
> >> Subject: [MV] Humvees Auctioned to Civilians
> >>
> >>
> >>> 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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