Well, today the M101A1 found itself a new owner (and a good home). Turns out I over-bid on the recent lot of M105A2 trailers at Nellis AFB....I put in minimum bids on 5 M105A2s, hoping to fall through the cracks on one. Well, NOBODY else bid and I won 5, yes FIVE, M105A2s for MINIMUM OPENING BID. Sounds great until the bill hit our account, my wife lost her mind! Luckily the total was under $1K, but DANG, 5 trailers?!? All for minimum opening bid?!?
Funny thing is that all 5 are complete with bows & tarp covers, in great shape by the photos!!! I'll use one to replace the pickup bed on my 1-ton truck (with tool boxes mounted underneath to carry chains & binders, tools, etc...), and I'll keep another to tow behind my truck.
What the heck do I do with the other 3??? Dang, SF97s for all of them at $60/each is $300 total!! Of course one won't need it, as I'll remove the bed and part out the chassis, so I'm potentially looking at $240 for 4 SF97s. Which then leads to all the issues with the brakes that I've spent many hours reading through in the Trailers section. **GROAN**
I'll have to post photos here when I pick them up; the EUC was just sent to Battle Creek today (after submission on Monday, I'm getting too good at this...), so hopefully I can pick them up in the next 3-4 weeks. I plan on trying to get all 5 in one trip on my flatbed trailer. We shall see!! I could always stack 2 pairs of them and squeeze in the 5th on the end of the flatbed trailer.
I don't think I'll be buying much on GL anytime soon after this snafu.