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Just got a phone call from a member of this site asking if I knew about this and if I was going to attend, told him no but thought some of you might like to.

Here is a partial list of vehicles to be sold, several M37s pictured. Might be some intrest in the World War Eleven "WW11" stuff listed

http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/photo ... y%20trucks

ESTATE AUCTION

MOSTLY OLD MILITARY VEHICLES, UNIFORMS & COLLECTABLES AT "FORT JOHNSON MILITARY MUSEUM"

SATURDAY, SEPT. 25 AT 9:00AM

PERSONAL PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE JAMES C."JIM" JOHNSON JR, DECEASED, AT THE HOME PLACE 360 PATIENCE DR., CONCORD, NC.

NOTE: MR JOHNSON WAS A CONCORD ATTORNEY, SERVING IN THE NC STATE HOUSE, STATE SENATOR, JUDGE AND VERY ACTIVE IN COMMUNITY & CIVIC AFFAIRS AND WAS A LONG TIME COLLECTOR OF MILITARY COLLECTIBLES.

VEHICLES



LVT 4 USMC LANDING TANK, RADIAL ENGINE--M211 2 1/2 TON GMC TRUCK(PORTION OF PROCEEDS GOING TO WOUNDED WARRIORS)--BEN HUR TRAILER, MOSTLY COMPLETE--M37 3/4 T DODGE TRUCK--M37 USMC AMBULANCE--1942 CHEV WRECKER--2 "REPUBLIC" EARLY 1900'S TRUCKS--1940 FORD SUPER DELUXE STAFF CAR, RUNNING WORKS, SUICIDE DOORS--1928 FORD TUDOR A MODEL A(MR. JOHNSON'S VERY FIRST CAR)--MODEL T TRUCK W/WOOD SPOKES--M59 ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIER--MILITARY, KOREAN ERA, BURMA TRUCK, TROOP CARRIER--1930'S CHEV TRUCK W/HONEYCOMB GRILL--WILLYS JEEP BODY--1947 FORD V8 WRECKER--1947 V8 TRUCK--1939 CHEV PANEL TRUCK--WW11 DODGE W/RARE AMBULANCE BODY--WW11 SCOUT CAR--STUDEBAKER ARMY TRUCK--FAIRMONT RR MOTORS HIT & MISS ENGINE--WRECKER--M38 JEEP--LUMBER JEEP--M20 ARMORED CAR--1930'S CHEV 1 TON TRUCK--EARLY 50'S CHEV DELUXE 4 DOOR--WW11 WEAPONS CARRIER--MORE 30'S CHEV TRUCKS—WILLYS JEEP--40'S FORD TRUCK--M37 DODGE WEAPONS CARRIER--WW11 GPW JEEP FRAME--ROLLING JEEP FRAME--WW11 GENERATOR--EARLY "HORNET" GASOLINE AIR COMPRESSOR--CHAMPION SPARK PLUG CLEANER---LOTS RADIATOR FRAMES & RADIATORS, PLUS OTHERS NOT LISTED, BUT SEE PICTURES OF ALL VEHICLES!!!!!!!!!

Oh! You dog! You just made me slobber all over my keyboard! I haven't drooled this much since the night I snuck into the WAC barracks!! I'd sure love to get my hands on onbe of those old WWI era Republic trucks!

Lifer, the auction is saturday sept. 25, jump in your truck get on I-85 north , to CONCORD N.C. EXIT about 6 miles to auction and bring your checkbook!!!

Interesting projects. I hope they get saved from the scrapman.

Rick

Quite a bit of history there, hope makes it into the right hands, wish I was in better shape? (more than one way)

OMG Collectors paradise! Wish I had some spare cash

Thanks for posting this! I too hope this stuff winds up in the hands of collectors and not scrappers. I would be curious as to what some of that stuff brings (in particular, the M20). I liked the M59 APC, used to own one of those in better times...

Matt

MikeOneSix wrote:Thanks for posting this! I too hope this stuff winds up in the hands of collectors and not scrappers. I would be curious as to what some of that stuff brings (in particular, the M20). I liked the M59 APC, used to own one of those in better times...

Matt

Hey Matt,
Our local club, VMVA has an M-20, the local gendarmes were about to cut it in half & bury it deep.......... the boys made their case, we got custody of it for the time being, it's on display at the "Field Day Of The Past".

It's a lot roomier than a tank.

m-37Bruce wrote:

MikeOneSix wrote:Thanks for posting this! I too hope this stuff winds up in the hands of collectors and not scrappers. I would be curious as to what some of that stuff brings (in particular, the M20). I liked the M59 APC, used to own one of those in better times...

Matt

Hey Matt,
Our local club, VMVA has an M-20, the local gendarmes were about to cut it in half & bury it deep.......... the boys made their case, we got custody of it for the time being, it's on display at the "Field Day Of The Past".

It's a lot roomier than a tank.

Probably not as roomy as the M59. The '59 was designed to carry an M38 jeep inside of it in the recon roll .

That's one nice M20 your club has Was that Fairfax PD's old rig? I may be incorrect as to which dept. had it, but one of those NoVa PDs used to have an M20 as their SWAT vehicle. Saw it in operation (on the news) back in the early/mid 90s during a Bank robbery up there. Didn't know any were still in operation that late...

Matt

I believe it was New Kent PD or the N.K. Sheriff's Dept., New Kent County, VA

Bruce
Well I like it just the same . Next time you guys up there put on a display I'm going to have to pop up for a visit.

Matt

The M-20 is at the "Field Day Of The Past" this weekend here in Richmond. The pic I posted is from 2007.

I went to the auction. The M37s were all bought up by scrappers planning to cut up and convert to junk Chinese steel sigh............ prices for even the worst started above my maximum bid. Very sad day for me.

Dan, Thanks for the info, even though the economy is supposedly making the turn around, it just doesn't figure............

There is a thread concerning this auction over on steel soldiers. On page 3 of that thread, a poster who was (also) there lists what a lot of that stuff sold for. The M20 went into the twenties. Bidding on that was crazy.
Matt