Thread: Army vehicle disposal

Like to get my hands on an m113, As i understand it, the NZ issue was the transfer of the vehicles from NZ to Australia and the US DOD stopping it.
In this case these vehicles would be staying in Australia.
I looked into bringing in an English FV432. Steel version of the M113
My customs broker did the enquiries and as an agricultural piece of machinery there was no problem.
of course this was going to cost $, somewhere in the range of $20K by the time I got it.
my thing is though I know the M113a1 and it is a fun machine, not to bad to work on if youve got the gear and the engines are simple.

have to wait and see

....saw a Unimog and a pair trailers (unknown type) travelling south along the F3, on the back of a drop deck, at about 5.00pm yesterday (Sunday 03/03), so maybe the next sale isn't too far away.

....no sign on M113's though

Matt.

Looks like the next auction is in prep mode ...

Ex-Military - Heavy & Medium Vehicles, Unimogs, Trailers

No Landies though.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by Sheppie

Like to get my hands on an m113, As i understand it, the NZ issue was the transfer of the vehicles from NZ to Australia and the US DOD stopping it.
In this case these vehicles would be staying in Australia.
I looked into bringing in an English FV432. Steel version of the M113
My customs broker did the enquiries and as an agricultural piece of machinery there was no problem.
of course this was going to cost $, somewhere in the range of $20K by the time I got it.
my thing is though I know the M113a1 and it is a fun machine, not to bad to work on if youve got the gear and the engines are simple.

have to wait and see

No (more) M113 will be sold to the public, the ones here will be turned into gate guards, targets, museum pieces or coke cans, the same as the NZ and Canadian ones. Its a treaty on the sale of US military equipment. If we want F35s or any other piece os US made military hardware we will have to abide by the treaty.

BTW many of the NZ ones were ex-Aussie M113 FSV (Saladin turrets)

BTW there was a FV432 for sale in Perth and another FV437 for sale in Young, but dont know the current status.

2006 Land Rover Defender TD5 Troopy | Cars, Vans & Utes | Gumtree Australia Gold Coast South - Palm Beach

huh?! A 2006 TD5 with army paint, bullbar, etc?

Originally Posted by Judo

2006 Land Rover Defender TD5 Troopy | Cars, Vans & Utes | Gumtree Australia Gold Coast South - Palm Beach

huh?! A 2006 TD5 with army paint, bullbar, etc?

It's one of the ex-Army remediation Defenders, most if not all were sold off last year for obscene prices.

AFAIK they were all 2000 compliance plated with no A/C and sals rear end or 2003/4 compliance plated, A/C and p38 diffs .

Originally Posted by Judo

2006 Land Rover Defender TD5 Troopy | Cars, Vans & Utes | Gumtree Australia Gold Coast South - Palm Beach

huh?! A 2006 TD5 with army paint, bullbar, etc?

That one has been around for quite a while too.

here they are :

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/showthread...90#post1871290