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Old 03-17-2016, 08:44 PM   #34
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Very similar to Jim's story, I once bought a dumpster full of old artillery wheels at an quarterly Govt. auction in Ft. Meade, MD. I was in the antique truck restoration business at the time and had a 1926 International 60 series that had the same 6 X 36 solid rubber tires as were mounted on the artillery wheels. I bought the dumpster for 220 bucks and there were 17 wheels in there. Kept six for my International and sold them for 200 bucks each and still got another 200 bucks for the dumpster when I was done with it 5 years later. It was one of those lucky days. I guess those tires would be worth a boat-buck each now.
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