06-02-2009, 04:16 PM
rgG wrote:
[quote=billb]
Has GM buried thousands of never sold cars out in the desert ?
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My father told me of his first hand experience of burying brand new Jeeps and trucks in Hawaii after the end of WWII. They were afraid if they shipped back all the surplus from the war it would trash the automakers by flooding the market with cheap goods, so they just dug a big pit and buried them. He said they drove one in while pulling another with the tool kits still on them. He was in the Navy stationed at Pearl Harbor.
Wow. How phenomenally inefficient. I can certainly understand not flooding the market with surplus cars, but not even to recycle the materials from the cars? That just seems.......stupid. Thanks, U.S. military!
