What a shame. Seems like they could overcome the liability problem with legal disclaimers of some sort. Ain't that what we pay lawyers for?
I know I would have loved to buy one of the old Jeeps like we had when I was in the National Guard but I was told that they also were sold as scrap because of the rollover problems they supposedly had. Before they sold them, they reportedly ran them all over with some piece of heavy equipment to render them beyond fixing.
As a matter of fact, we did. We had a deal with a scrapyard that would run them through a crusher before we put them in the DRMO yard.