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In may of 2014, GL had a live auction in Atlanta which I should have gone to but did not, BIG MISTAKE,. A guy from NYC brought three m1070s and two m931a2s, In August I get a call from Atl. GL that NY was going to call me about the trucks, It seems that he "thought" he could leave the trucks at GLs yard till he was ready for them, needless to say GL had other ideas about that, told him he had 10 days to get them out of the yard or he would forfeit them as abandoned, so I get the call, I agree to move then and store them for a "short" time as his request, so I move them (1070s started with a double jump) to a yard in ATL about 2 miles from GL for $375 a month (yards fee), so for a few months I pay the fee and invoice NY, still thinking "short" time storage. Then I get a call from NY (NY does NOT speak ENGLISH very well so is hard to understand), he says he wants to EXPORT all five trucks to a GOD forsaken 6th world country, I say the two 5ts do NOT run, the m1070s ALL need batteries at least, he says ok no sweat, now here comes the BIG question, HOW DO I GET THEM TO FORSAKEN LAND, CAN YOU HELP ME GET THEM THERE, all I said was WHAT, then said I will see what I can do and realized that we were no longer talking SHORT TIME, at the same time I also realized he THOUGHT the a2s were RUNNERS and maybe need batteries like the m1070, he paid runner price, I had to tell him that one a2 needed a alt., the other needed a starter. This is where things stayed till may 2015 when two friends and myself moved them in convoy to LULA GA, about 1/2 hour from my house, each 1070 pulled a a2 or my pickup. Another year goes by, I get a email, FORSAKEN no more a go, "can you up help in selling trucks" I send a estimate on what it would cost to get ALL five up and running, do not here anything for a year or so, in may of 2016 I found a outlaw dirt track owner that needed a better water truck that would never go on the road, his old one had died years ago but still in some use, contracted NY to get one of the a2s up and running then sell it, or sell to me as is at his paid price, he sent back NO HE WANTED TO SELL ALL FIVE AT ONE TIME, there went that deal, AGAIN asked about getting all five running and sent him the price to achieve that. In may of 2017, GP contacted me about selling at action FIVE military trucks, I had to tell them that of the five, three needed batteries at least (the 1070s ), the other two the a2s needed more then just batteries and had never been run as far as I knew since before may 2014, get a email from NY, tells me to get 1070s going and he is thinking about a2s as GP told him he was not going to get much for the non running a2s, I offered to buy both a2s for what he paid for them, first NO, he wanted more, told him fine, your trucks, you figure out you are going to do with them because I am DOME with this crap. In about a week I got a YES, so then I owned two non running a2s, had planed to take parts from one a2 to get the other running, then from the donor a2 put the air axles under the 819 and use the cab to make a xm933, then sell all of the extra parts, well as we all know, not all plans happen.
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