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The price guides can't really account for all the factors involved with a car like the Miata- the racing pressures are one factor, but the nature of a 20 year old car with low mileage just doesn't fit with their appraisal algorithms. As for Spec Miata specifically, they want a relatively...
I'm sure the prices will increase as the supply decreases, but I think it'll depend what you're looking for. I'd bet that dented, dinged, scratched up, used for work deuces and CUCVs won't increase in price that much, especially CUCVs. Original, low-mileage, shined up for parades type trucks...
Oh, I know they're getting replaced by FMTVs and LMTVs, which will presumably follow the path of the deuce through service life extensions, rebuilds and the like. I'm just saying that they'll likely eventually reach surplus (even if it takes a couple decades), and that it would seem unlikely...
Weren't those deuces replaced with something? I mean, I never underestimate the ability of those in power to do stupid, stupid things, but something tells me that the Guard and other branches of the service aren't just selling off all their vehicles and becoming immobile.
Anything can be found for the right price if you know where to look.
Right now, I could buy any one of several CUCVs, in running condition. I *chose* to buy mine second-hand, because then I didn't have to deal with dragging it home and seeing what was wrong with it, I could test drive it and...
So what? Even if they stopped releasing them, it's not like there aren't plenty of them second, third, fourth and fifth hand floating around. Between local and state governments and various other departments, and private buyers selling them off- it's not like CUCVs are rare or hard to come by...
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