I might get shot for this but so what
I bought my 3500 from a welder in New York State, it had been at the Twin Towers with a welder/generator and cutting equipment removing the steel on the cleanup, job finished or guy earned enough or whatever but I bought it after wards, there wasn't much time difference between the job finishing and me buying it so it had been used on New York roads pretty recently before I bought it, I went over to remove the steel rack it had and arrange for it to be moved to a shipper in NJ to be shipped to the UK..... I never drove it but took it on the fact that