UPDATE: **SOLD** by sealed bid for $26,268.
The Florence Township Fire Department out of Ohio is accepting sealed bids on this CJ-6 until November 16th. It’s available for viewing on November 3rd.
“The Florence Township Fire Department will receive sealed bids for the sale of a 1967 Jeep CJ-6 Universal that has just over 6300 miles. Comes with canvas cover over cab area and doors with zippered windows and sold as is.
Successful bidder assumes all responsibility and liability for the Jeep and its operation after the winning bid is announced and payment is tendered.
Jeep will be available for viewing on Sunday, November 3, 2019 from 9 am till 12 noon at Florence Township Fire station located at 11017 Chapel St Wakeman, Ohio 44889 (Birmingham, Ohio).
All bids must be received by 5:00 pm on November 16, 2019. Any bids received after the deadline will be returned unopened. Bids will be opened at 8 pm on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at the Florence Township Trustee meeting located at 11011 Chapel St Wakeman, Ohio 44889 (Birmingham, Ohio).
Florence Township Fire Department and Florence Township Trustees reserve the right to reject any and all bids.
Bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked as:
Florence Township Fire Department
Attn: Chief Halliwell – 1967 JEEP BID
11017 Chapel St
Wakeman, Ohio 44889
Bids should contain bid amount and contact information (phone, mailing address and email address)
Payment is by cashier’s check, certified check or money order made payable to the Florence Township Trustee’s. Full payment must be received and the property removed from Department premises at the buyer’s expense not later than 4:00 pm (EST), Sunday, December 1, 2019. The Department shall be entitled to reclaim ownership of any item not removed by that time.
The buyer is responsible for providing proper safety devices and equipment, licenses and permits to meet all government safety standards and legal operating requirements, and for insuring awarded item. The buyer agrees to provide adequate liability insurance while on the Department property for the purpose of removal of goods, and will indemnify and hold harmless the Department, its agents and employees, volunteers, members, and Florence Township Trustees, Florence Township Fire Department from and against claims, damages, losses and expenses, including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees, arising out of their presence on the Department’s property for the purpose of removing purchased goods, provided that such claim, damage, loss or expense is attributable to bodily injury, sickness, disease or death, or to injury to or destruction of tangible property including losses of use resulting therefrom, but only to the extent caused in whole or in part by negligent acts or omissions of the Buyer, anyone directly or indirectly employed by the Buyer or anyone for whose acts the Buyer may be liable, regardless of whether or not such claim, damage, loss or expense is caused in part by a party indemnified hereunder”
Sealed bids. Cheeseus, just put a price on it. I will never figure what is in peoples minds. You want to sell it…then sell it. Bids indeed…
Typically, the Government pays for their new items. They need to do it this way to make sure they don’t sell it to a friend for five bucks.
Local people will have much better idea what it’s worth than anyone else. I’d say it’s worth 4500. If you want to offer more, go ahead.
Exhaust pipe ends mid body and pointed straight down. Did they use this Jeep to drive around and start fires? Haha
Chuck: Good point. I wonder if that exhaust has been cobbled together. It makes not sense to have that setup if the jeep was ever being used in a dry area!
David: I agree with you on the sealed bid process. It creates a clear paper trail that, ideally, wouldn’t favor anyone. And, they don’t have to hassle with the auction process (or its fees). While it doesn’t necessarily maximize the return, that may not be the goal here; The goal may be simply be to give everyone in the community (who has the money) a fair chance at obtaining it.
There was a 54 CJ3B in a town I used to live in that went on sealed bid…I did not bid because I figured it would go for crazy money, but it did not…went for like $1200. This was 20 years ago, but the guy did drive it away.
Bob: I’ve heard other folks with similar stories. If you are close and have the money, it’s worth doing a low bid.
I live approx 45 minutes from this jeep. Our town sold their cj3b fire brush jeep. By law it was sold by silent bid also. It brought $26,562!!
looks to be f-head, 3 speed with pto. floors appear good also. wonder if more photos available.
on second look, transmission cover looks as thougf it could have a t98 4spd. be nice if someone could check this out for us.
Does not say if a title will be provided to the winning bidder.
The winning bid was $26,268!
Oh my!
What??? Who would be crazy enough to bid that much using a sealed bid? Also, it seems like an odd number for a sealed bid?