Austrian Army to sell 699 Pinzgauers vs repairing!!!

[TechMOGogy]

Trying for a bulk sale for all 699!
http://www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/ ... kauf.story

From Google Translate:
"It is 382 pieces biaxial Pinzgauer 710 with canvas roof, an additional 24 two-axle box body, 182 triaxial Pinzgauer 712M-AB with tarpaulin top and 111 three-axle 712 with solid construction."

So my translation is:
382 710M's
24 710K's
182 712M's
and
111 712K's

another link:
http://derstandard.at/2000003110222/Ein ... -Pinzgauer

Did my pinz just drop in price by 1/2??!!

[kjbtsi6686]

Hopefully that means a bunch are gonna get imported.

[TechMOGogy]

Hopefully that means a bunch are gonna get imported.

I guess but not sure Scott can buy 699

[pinzinator]

Depending on your browser and OS, you can right-click on the screen and translate to English.

I want at least two! And I hope that all of them come to the USA.

[Andre]

The austrian trucks will be ROUGH. They weren't stored and loved like the swiss ones.

[pinzinator]

We could use the used parts. They are hard to get now and are expensive, and this will only get worse as time goes by. We need a Pinz salvage yard here in the USA, and I wish I could be the one who makes it happen.

[Andre]

I have the space here in TX. Centrally located for the Masses.

[krick3tt]

Andre, you say you might have space and I would be glad to make the trip for some serious spare parts.

[TechMOGogy]

Group buy!

[Andre]

Group buy!

that's what I'm talking about.

[TechMOGogy]

When I was reading it looked like they wanted to get 5000-20000 euro's per unit
that ends up at an average of 10.5 million euros for the lot

[kjbtsi6686]

When I was reading it looked like they wanted to get 5000-20000 euro's per unit
that ends up at an average of 10.5 million euros for the lot

Damn!!!

[David Dunn]

And realizing that the Austrians had rebuilt these trucks once before and now think it is better to sell them off than repair.
Then think, 5k euros is $6.7k US plus shipping and other costs, and probably would be a rusted out beater at best to $28K+

With those prices, only the rougher Pinzes in private hands have gone down in valve. The premium ones won't change at all.

[Andre]

I believe the best course of action is to not take action. Let those who have imported before, go, inspect, and judge for themselves, the quality of the inventory and profitability with cost of purchase and importation.

If they are only worth parts, only pay salvage costs.
If they are quality trucks, pay what is needed to make money.

As Customers, our job is to create the demand and set purchase price per condition. Call your favorite importer and show interest, be it solid runner, or parts truck.

[GenevaPinz]

And realizing that the Austrians had rebuilt these trucks once before and now think it is better to sell them off than repair.
Then think, 5k euros is $6.7k US plus shipping and other costs, and probably would be a rusted out beater at best to $28K+

With those prices, only the rougher Pinzes in private hands have gone down in valve. The premium ones won't change at all.

David, how do you get from 6.7k (purchase price) to 28k total after shipping, import duties and taxes? I don't know the specifics, but container shipping is not that expensive and taxes will be a percentage of the purchase price...