I want this MILSURP!

It was kinda sad to see them all piled on top of each other in the scrap yard. I saw six more on their way to the Island at the brake check on top of the Coquihalla tonight.
 
purple said:
Yes, I can attest that they work very well for this.

In Jan 1972 we (1PPCLI) were on winter exercise in the Ghost River Wilderness in the Alberta foothills when I had an irate Conservation Officer buzz up to my CP vehicle on his ski-doo. He came in to see me claiming that some of our troops had illegally shot a moose and that he wanted something done about it. I replied that we sure weren't there to do that, and asked how he knew that it was a military person who had done the evil deed. He replied that there was one set of M113 tracks leading to and from the kill site:eek: and figured that we were the only people out there driving these at the time.:redface:

I assurred him that we would spare no effort to get to the bottom of this and that the miscreants would be duly found and punished.;) We never found out who the guilty ones were, but I had a hunch. The truth didn't come out until over 20 years later when I was deer hunting with one of the perps (a happy civvy by then) and he finally fessed up.
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So how did the moose meat taste over the fire that night?????;):p
 
so, im pretty sure i just saw these go down the trans canada today in calgary, they each had a big crate or something wrapped in blue tarp about the same size as the vehicles with them

same spray paint on the rear etc
 
stencollector said:
From the numbers I had, of slightly less than 1000 M113s, only around 300 were being upgraded to TLAV. Many were being extended in length, some were not.

A number of them ended up in Afghanistan with the rubber track. The new upgrades made it a pretty good vehicle.

As for disposal, they cannot be sold to the public: US ITAR restrictions will make sure of that. There were attempts to sell them, and their spare parts, on the world market, but nobody is really lining up to buy old APCs these days. And those that do, will not get approval from the US, who control the disposal of these. Even the MLVWs are now being scrapped rather than sold off.

If these are going to BC, it may be possible they are going to a museum.....it's kind of a long way to transport them if they are just going to be cut up. I heard they will not use them as hard targets anymore either due to environmental concerns.
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I take it the Lynxes either aren't covered by ITAR or were released before it was relevant? I've seen one at the Abbotsford Air Show every time I've been there.
 
Spotted the trailer westbound on Mackenzie at Carey, in Victoria yesterday (Friday) early afternoon. Almost did a u-turn right there to follow it and have a closer look.

Too bad.
 
When did you see these???

I went through Victoria a couple days ago and there were two of these on a flatbed just coming off the ferry. How many of these are getting sold, to whom and where????
 
that APC vehicule,remember me lost souvenir.I was driving that type.exepted call sing was 13F

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I read a crown asset listing for several of these APC's, the contract stated you had to chop critical non-repairable holes in the structure even before removing them from the base they were sitting on, the 3 in the listing were skeletons that looked like someone had parted out... Hard to believe anyone would worry about them coming back to life.... Sad really...
 
wow awesome i wish i could get one, i did sink one once, they were so old in the 80's that they lost their water tightness, water poured over the water vail and .... well Canada had a new submarine lol... would love to own one though
 
chanman said:
I take it the Lynxes either aren't covered by ITAR or were released before it was relevant? I've seen one at the Abbotsford Air Show every time I've been there.
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The Lynx was controlled. One or two snuck out as deals through museums, or the one you see may be part of a museum collection. There were also some from Germany that left the base with a hole cut through each side of the armour. Another batch from Germany were snuck out of the base without the holes. The ones from Germany found their way onto the collector market. A batch of the German ones found their way to Isreal, and were noticed by the Americans on satellite photos. There were only two countries in the world using the Lynx, so it kind of narrowed it down as to which country made the disposal mistakes.
 
H Wally said:
When did you see these???

I went through Victoria a couple days ago and there were two of these on a flatbed just coming off the ferry. How many of these are getting sold, to whom and where????
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A scrap dealer on the Island has the contract to scrap them. Go north on Burnside, right on Prospect Lake Rd, and left on Munn Road. It's about a mile down on the right side.
 
At least one got away intact. If I remember correctly, the owner of the now defunct Soldier's Shop had a M113 in his collection.
 
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you guys would need to go take a look at farnham qc there a parking lot full of m113 just rusting away and have been there for as long as anyone can remember
 
An Old M 113. You could make your own personal camp in the back of that little bugger.
I`d take that over a quad, but not my Jeep
 
Passed these flat beds on my way to work Sunday. Sad sight to see. Would make a great commuter. ;-)
 
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