Chevrolet C60L - in the desert of Libya

[sapper740]

Originally posted by Shane Lovell
Ryan

My understanding is that in the 1950/60s wreck collection in Libya for scrap was a major income earner and most wrecks in the easy to get to places were collected.

Shane

The Arabs are great scavengers and seldom leave anything of value in the desert. In 1999 I took a bus from Eilat, Israel to Cairo, Egypt and we drove across the Sinai and through the famous Mitla Pass, scene of much fighting in the 6 Day War. I had hoped to see some of the many tanks, aircraft, and vehicles that had been destroyed in the fighting but was disappointed to only see a partial set of tracks and an unidentifiable truck chassis protruding from the sand. Most everything else was either buried or recovered, I assume.