Somewhere in Argentina...

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by m606paz

Hi Alex
Argentina received thousands of cmps and those that ended their days as scrap metal are those that were found for many years in the hands of merchants who bought them at auction and who only wanted to sell them. But a combination of high prices, many parts shortages, and little demand to restore them because of their high costs, led to them ending up and selling them for scrap weight. Very Sad...

Thanks Mariano. I agree.....still very sad; especially as some of the CMP variants in Argentina are quite rare anywhere else in the world...like the late version Gun tractors....and the F60T tractor and trailer, but also original beetle back bodies!