Prior Lake, Minnesota 55372 Phone: (952) 440-8778 or FAX (952) 440-8776
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JOHN 
I got a phone call in the spring of 1998 from a woman who owns an old resort
on an island on the Canadian side of the boundry waters saying she heard
I collect old military trucks. I said yes, asked what she had. "I have
no idea except it says UC MK I on it." I asked if it was 4 wheel drive,
and she said no, it has tracks. I asked if it ran, "no, it has plants
growing in it." I told her that I come fishing in that area each fall,
and would look at it then. Not knowing what I would find, camera in hand,
here it sat. This is how I found it, 14 miles by water from the US border
crossing in the Fall of 1998. It had ferns that were 3 feet tall growing
in it. The woman said that it had been there since the late 40's and never
ran as long as she can remember. A price was agreed upon and in the spring
of 1999 I hired a dozer and a barge to travel up the lakes to retrieve it.
Low water that year proved to be a problem when the barge got stuck on the
bottom of the bay for 3 hours. They rocked the dozer back and forth on the
barge and finally got it free.
Here I am in the early spring of 1999 the day we took it off the barge and
it was on US soil. We used the track hoe to unload it and put it on my truck
for the 4-hour ride home. The guys who ran the dozer and barge outfit thought
I was nuts. "What do you want with that old piece of iron" was
all they kept asking. Little did they know.
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