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A few months ago in an installment of the MLU Express, I got to fly with Bob Bergeron looking for a mythical fleet of surplus Israeli halftracks. Nothing found, but the story was debunked from armour to 2 1/2 ton trucks. It seems an enterprising fellow used to buy surplus vehicles at the auctions on Nuns Island, Montreal and use them as snow ploughs. The fleet was 12 or 15 M135s and a handful of 3/4s. He also bought just about everything that he fancied. The sawmill yard where they were parked was cleared in the first part of this century and as many as 50 40' scrap metal bins went to the shredders. The old fellow is now in a home and his son told me the story. He has a Studebaker M35 wrecker in his yard and a variety of parts in a couple of falling down sheds. He didn't quite know what he's got, except that they are truck parts. I have begun to cultivate a friendship. Who knows what will emerge?