MV graveyard, not 151 related

Horst · Unread post by **Horst** » March 2nd, 2012, 4:04 pm

Passed by a French MV dealer today and shot some photos. First he did not want me on his property, but after sweettalking him a little bit, I walked around for half an hour and shot some photos.

Rough guess that there are a few hundreds WWII vehicles, mainly GMCs and Dodge. WC51, WC56 and quite a few ambulances. Most of it is beyond hope, but a few are in restorable shape. Some are grown over by vegetation, but still hold air in their tyres.

Deuce burried:

many many WC51s:

quite a few ambulances:

this one is for you HTN:

while most have rebuild tags from the French Army in the early 60ties, some still have the orginal hood number:

very rare Delahaye Jeep:

and this is how all of them will end. Talked to the owner who seemed to be happy with the scrap pricing going up. He said he will get more money for sending to scrap than selling them as is. Seems to be no market.

FREDERIC · Unread post by **FREDERIC** » March 2nd, 2012, 5:00 pm

I believed in a graveyard but it is a slaughterhouse by a executioner as the owner.

Unread post by **rickf** » March 2nd, 2012, 5:25 pm

China has pretty much destroyed the surplus market and all of the antiques market for that matter with what they are paying for steel. What the hell, they can afford it because we sourced everything out to them! I still can not figure out how it is cheaper to send all of our scrap to China so they can recycle it back into steel and sell it back to us and ship it all the way back here. There is no way that computes. I know the steel coming back is garbage and I know their labor is slave rate but still. Shipping alone!

Rick

richard · Unread post by **richard** » March 2nd, 2012, 6:24 pm

Horst wrote:(...)
Deuce burried:

(...)

Sleeping Beauty waiting for the kiss ...

halftracknut · Unread post by **halftracknut** » March 2nd, 2012, 6:36 pm

Horst, throw that track in a container and send it home!

thanks for the posting...

WC Matt · Unread post by **WC Matt** » March 2nd, 2012, 8:43 pm

halftracknut wrote:Horst, throw that track in a container and send it home! thanks for the posting...

Unfortunately, HTN I don't think you can re-import any of that stuff...

Horst
Looks like it was a nice day to be out & about. Thanks for posting those pics.
Matt

mwmutt · Unread post by **mwmutt** » March 4th, 2012, 6:59 am

S M I (38) in the south east of France...?

Horst · Unread post by **Horst** » March 4th, 2012, 7:04 am

Bien sur

vtdeucedriver · Unread post by **vtdeucedriver** » April 21st, 2012, 11:19 pm

Its not happening just there................here too!!!! I have a friend who is getting out of the surplus business and he just scrapped a TON of axle shafts for the Ford Burma Truck still in the Crates!!! He said it was easier to get his $$$ now then hold on to them.