Brian
I do remember when the Mungas were surplussed. CADC will act as the disposal agency for foreign government assests located in Canada. I have even seen them sell off American assets. The Germans (thru CADC) also regularly sold off the unimogs and the much larger MAN trucks, as part of their normal fleet rotations. Seems to me I heard something about a problem with duty not having been paid on the vehicles during the time of import. Not an issue if you take the vehicle home after you are done with it, but if it gets disposed of in Canada, then there was an issue. I think the same thing occurred for quite a while with the British vehicles form Suffield as well, where they were tagged "for export only".
But in the last few years that the Germans operated in Shilo, they were running their newer fleets, like the Mercedes G-wagon. None of those were released here, but rather taken back to Germany.
The thing that amazed us about the Mungas was that when they went, they were complete with batteries, mirrors, soft tops, and even the operators tooling. We seemed to treat all our DND surplus vehicles as a parts source, which surely affected the final sale prices.
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