well theres 2 pallets and the pictures are just a few items, you can inspect the lot before the bidding starts if you were seriously interested.
I admit that's true. It's just that if you add in (let's say) 300-400 miles in a pickup and the high likelihood that most of it is either beat to death, isn't worth a bunch, or is specialized kits for some oddball government purpose, and it's a pretty hard sell. I think I'd rather go look at an interesting car, but it's true there is the treasure hunt angle here.
It seems to me that I read somewhere an article by a guy who buys and sells (on eBay) government auction electronic test equipment and tools and really knew his market. I think his claim was he needed to buy things for less than 10% of what he estimated he could get for them to make it worth his while.
Another treasure hunt that is in the back of my mind somewhere was some guys from Hot VW's (or some other aircooled magazine) who went to South American countries to track down old and abandoned VW dealerships to scrounge for NOS parts. I seem to remember they found a big cache of semaphore turn signals somewhere. Now *that* would be a fun adventure.
