through the middle of the body, middle of door to middle of door. There was a man in Tacoma that was an excellent fabricator and I remember when I was a kid, people bringing him M151's and he would jig them up and weld them back together. Don't know if this is one of his jobs, but whomever did it, did a nice job.
It appears that the various means of scraping them out included cutting in half, cutting in quarters, and then finally crushing them. The last job that I did at Ft. Lewis was building a parking lot by the DRMO. This was 17 years ago. There were 6 beautiful complete M151's. I talked with the man that was working on them and he said that he had bought them for scrap, 50 bucks a piece. He was allowed to take any part off them that he wanted, but the bodies had to be crushed with their loader, before they went out the gate.
Guess it is kind of like the Humvee's, why preserve them for historic purposes or put them to good use for thousands, when you can sell them for scrap for a hundred bucks. Situation normal.
