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Originally Posted by daninnm
Well, to answer the question - yes, this is the Stag that came from the Melbourne Museum sale 15 years ago....Gathered parts and bought out a large collection of NOS stuff (thousands of pounds) also from Australia. The Aussies thought I was nuts for buying it and truly it took two years to get paperwork done to get it into the US!
Have a nice Thanksgiving.
Dan
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Hi Dan
I don't know how you managed to import ex-Lend-Lease stuff back into the USA from Australia, unless the two governments have recently amended the original wartime Lend-Lease agreement.
There was a local in my area who had a large stock of NOS Lend-Lease Stuart M3 light tank parts including NOS radial engines ( which I saw). The story goes: because of the Lend-Lease agreement , he was not permitted to sell any of it back to the USA . What was left of the stockpile was sold as a big lot locally but the deal went bad and it ended up in the courts with lawyers involved