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    A MILITARY VEHICLE IN A CRATE YOU CAN BUY

    Oct 01, 2019 4 minutes
    by Mark Sigrist
    Mike O’Sullivan

    “There are military jeeps for sale brand new in the crate from government stores that have been misplaced since WWII and are now being released for only $50. You just need to get on the list!” I have been hearing that story since being a kid around 1957. I think we all have heard the same tale and are still awaiting the discovery — and sale — of that “Mother Lode of Jeeps.”.

    During one of the Military Vehicle Preservation Association Convoys a few years ago, the “Jeep in a Crate” topic again surfaced when one of the public came out to see our historic military vehicles during a lunch

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