I watch those crown asset auctions too.
As a condition of sale, many of those "test" vehicles HAVE TO be shipped back to Europe. They will only deliver it to a sealed shipping container destined for Europe. That means you can't even buy it to part out, etc.
The crown assets auctions are cool though, I've gone to the auctions in Montreal. My father once bid on a lot of 6 4x4 crates of military surplus, just for kicks. He won, and had to pay to get all of it trucked home... what a crazy pile of stuff. 1 cyl diesel generators, aircraft "boosting" station control panels, boxes of gauges.
This is what I got out of the pile:
