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All day HMMWV sale, what did you get? 9/13/16

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I got out bid on everything 9/13. I did pick up a '93 M998 Troop Carrier here in VA for about $500 more than I was hoping to pay but it looks to be in pretty good shape. I figured it wasn't too bad since that $500 difference would be made up in shipping from the other I was looking at in OH. This is my first MV: I'm scared to tell the wife, I think she'll kick my butt. That said, I'm a pilot and a 41yo Cessna owner so I'm not afraid to work on old stuff. Hope the HMMVW will fit in the hangar.
 
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Brad Z said:
I got out bid on everything 9/13. I did pick up a '93 M998 Troop Carrier here in VA for about $500 more than I was hoping to pay but it looks to be in pretty good shape. I figured it wasn't too bad since that $500 difference would be made up in shipping from the other I was looking at in OH. This is my first MV: I'm scared to tell the wife, I think she'll kick my butt. That said, I'm a pilot and a 41yo Cessna owner so I'm not afraid to work on old stuff. Hope the HMMVW will fit in the hangar.
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Happy for you! Let's see some pictures of the project.
 
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Brad Z said:
I got out bid on everything 9/13. I did pick up a '93 M998 Troop Carrier here in VA for about $500 more than I was hoping to pay but it looks to be in pretty good shape. I figured it wasn't too bad since that $500 difference would be made up in shipping from the other I was looking at in OH. This is my first MV: I'm scared to tell the wife, I think she'll kick my butt. That said, I'm a pilot and a 41yo Cessna owner so I'm not afraid to work on old stuff. Hope the HMMVW will fit in the hangar.
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Dude! I hope your wife is more understanding than mine. She is still threatening to leave me if she ever has the money to do so. No worries. I'll just make sure there is never that much $ in the accounts, which should be easy with the cost of HMMWV parts. ;)
 
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brazengoat06 said:
Picked up a m998a1 out of Alabama. Looks like I was probably bidding against you guys at some point in that auction ha. In thinking I got a good deal but time will tell.
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Were you the one bidding me up? I got one of the tan ones from Alabama. I had it for $8500 then someone would come in for $100 more and they kept extending it. That kind of irritates me that they don't end them on time.
 
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Sintorion said:
Were you the one bidding me up? I got one of the tan ones from Alabama. I had it for $8500 then someone would come in for $100 more and they kept extending it. That kind of irritates me that they don't end them on time.
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It only extends if someone bids, So "we" don't just extend them. The first time you lost out on something because someone "bid sniped" at the last second when you wanted to bid again you wouldn't feel that way.
 
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GL would add 15 minutes every time a bid was placed. An auction could go on for hours. I just enter my max amount and walk away.
 
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GL would add 15 minutes every time a bid was placed. An auction could go on for hours. I just enter my max amount and walk away.
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2 minutes seems to work better but I have seen some stay up for 45 minutes or so.
 
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Gfern3686 said:
Just got my first hmmwv I'm pretty excited about it. Hope I didn't pay to much at 8K
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Ahhh, you got that truck, that truck started at 10k, got no bids and then was relisted to 8k and only your bid won it.
I think it's a good score, it's a serpintine 6.5NA setup but with a TH400 and 218 tcase. Ex navy truck.
i just missed bidding on it or it would have been a bidding war.
 
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Gfern3686 said:
I see you got your own shop there in Brentwood. I'm right down the road in Vacaville. Do you think once I get this thing I can bring it by for a once over?
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By all means, yes....the one thing about that truck is the windshield says "No power", so not sure what that means, such as, it runs and drives but has no real power? Or do they mean...it maybe had no batteries and then they made it run? Who knows till you get the truck.
 
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Royalpower said:
Happy for you! Let's see some pictures of the project.
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Dude! I hope your wife is more understanding than mine. She is still threatening to leave me if she ever has the money to do so. No worries. I'll just make sure there is never that much $ in the accounts, which should be easy with the cost of HMMWV parts. ;)
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Good strategy. She's been through this many times before. She also grew up with a brother who's a motor head so she knows the deal. We also keep separate bank accounts so that helps :)
 
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Sintorion said:
Were you the one bidding me up? I got one of the tan ones from Alabama. I had it for $8500 then someone would come in for $100 more and they kept extending it. That kind of irritates me that they don't end them on time.
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It makes like the old live auctions , the guy with the deepest pockets wins the prize . 2 minutes is a pretty short time for bids to close compared to a lot of online auctions.
 
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Gfern3686 said:
I'm actually a little relieved to hear that. I'm always nervous about buying something no one else is bidding on. Makes me think everyone knows something I don't.
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I've had that feeling before... I HATE it. especially when I'm considering it might be "too good to be true"
 
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My first one was a non-runner out of DeRidder LA. It no-bid all the way down to $3.5k. Jeepsinker picked it up for me and had it running in short order. Runs perfect. You just never know.
 
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