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The tone is set nearby-miles of skeletal wings and tails form eerie symmetries behind tall chainlink, ghosts on Davis Monthan airfields. A land of junkyards, forgotten trailers and colossal, high-voltage transmission towers. It's 15 acres on four lots that smell of old rubber and juniper, out in the dusted no-man's desert where I-10 nears Drexel Road. Hard to imagine these vehicles once announcing brutal hostilities to faraway worlds. Thousands of machines resigned to peaceful, perfunctory order: A half-ton World War II ambulance shaped in the cheery curves of a '60s suburban milk truck, rusted and sun-defeated in a bed of vicious buffelgrass several Nam helicopters decorated with Vietcong bullet holes, emasculated with guns and rotor blades removed a dozen multifuel engines lifted 'from five-ton M54 Vietnam cargo trucks' provide cast-iron cubbyholes for desert creatures and their feral-cat hunters. The visual equivalent of a Stooges song, you might say, tonnage and frayed edges equally metallic, muscular and organic. His salvage yard, Jack's Gov't Surplus Trucks, qualifies as high art, a repository of organized chaos. They only made 440 of them for the Marine Corps and they turned them into Davis Monthan for destruction - but they decided to sell five. It's going to Russell Military Museum in Zion, Illinois. 'This one here's a 650 Kawasaki retrofitted with a diesel engine, made in California. 'They only made these half-ton Dodge carryalls for one year,' he says, staying in hasty stride. Even harder after 41 years of salvage business in Tucson.

Middle-schooler enthusiasm isn't easy on a 71-year-old. Watch close, his joy unbundles slowly - it's like he doesn't want anyone to see how much he loves his machinery. Jack Martin trundles his acres as if on a private mission, pointing out war beasts with excitable affection.

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