flipper wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:02:55 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
flipper wrote:
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:37:19 -0500, Phil Hobbs
flipper wrote:
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Could be, I suppose, but WWII surplus seems a lot more likely as the
country was darn near swimming in the stuff there for a while.

There sure was a lot of it. An uncle of mine built a logging equipment
business by converting WWII surplus half tracks into cherry pickers and
log haulers.

Sounds like a darn good idea.

Remember all those ads claiming you could get a surplus 'jeep in
crate' for 50 bucks?

They just didn't tell you that you had to buy by the thousands, and
pay shipping from wherever they were stored in some foreign country.

That might actually have been a better deal than what it really was.

If it had come with all the tech orders, it could probably been kept running
to this very day. Military tech docs were mind-bogglingly good.

Not too sure about parts these days, but after all, they were made in US
car plants; and if you still had one today, you could probably afford to
have parts _made_. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich