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GaryKC

Posted 2017-03-18 7:33 AM (#82636)

COMSUBBBS

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Location: Kansas City Missouri

Subject: NTINS Finally Arrived 44 Years Later

March 1973, drinking a Heineken on the Sub Barge in Guantanamo, Cuba. Driver of a officer visiting the boats CO flops down next to me and tells an incredible story. WWII ends and the Gov has boatloads of jeeps to get rid of.... long story short.... after the driver keeps buying beers, a number of us give this guy $100 and he writes down our mailing addresses. Never expected to hear from that crook again till yesterday morning when there was a knock on my door.....

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Sewer Pipe Snipe

Posted 2017-03-18 8:59 AM (#82637 - in reply to #82636)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1796

Location: Albany, GA.

Subject: RE: NTINS Finally Arrived 44 Years Later

Actually put one together in the sixties. When Mom found out how dangerous they were supposed to be, we had to sell it. It came out of North Carolina, in the box. I like to think it is still crawling around the Adirondacks looking to haul deer out of the woods.

Tom Conlon

Posted 2017-03-18 12:27 PM (#82638 - in reply to #82636)

Old Salt

Posts: 264

Location: Harrison, NJ

Subject: RE: NTINS Finally Arrived 44 Years Later

Gives new meaning to the term "some assembly required."

PaulR

Posted 2017-03-18 12:29 PM (#82639 - in reply to #82636)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1266

Location: Hopewell Junction NY

Subject: RE: NTINS Finally Arrived 44 Years Later

Jeep in a CRATE

Sewer Pipe Snipe

Posted 2017-03-18 12:39 PM (#82640 - in reply to #82636)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1796

Location: Albany, GA.

Subject: RE: NTINS Finally Arrived 44 Years Later

If my memory is correct, my Father paid $400 plus shipping for it. Didn't look like that one in the crate, just a box with the parts in the back of the Jeep which didn't have the wheels mounted, only rims.

Bob Mahon

Posted 2017-03-18 6:58 PM (#82643 - in reply to #82636)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 932

Location: Milford, PA

Subject: RE: NTINS Finally Arrived 44 Years Later

Do you want your $100.00 back ? Aww, heck, make it $200.00.

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