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Red River Army Depot near Texarkana used to do that
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Forgot about them -- the first Bradley I was on had a data plate showing it upgraded from M3A0 to A1 standard at Red River.
If the refurbish/repair lines CONUS weren't doing a lot of work on repairing battle damaged stuff from OCONUS (which, even pre-nuke, I think is kind of a long shot), they might be hubs for semi-official or even standardized mods to existing vehicles like the "Stingray Juniors" and such.
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So that's why the stocks of vehicles go down so drastically. It's not just that so many have been destroyed, it's that there are so few that still work. Some relatively stationary units may actually maintain "junkyards" for spare parts.
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Yeah -- without a functional logistics tail stretching back to a functional nation state keeping just about any system with any complexity to it running is going to require regular miracles on demand from mechanics and other support troops. Cannibalizing anything that isn't functioning anymore is going to definitely be a big part of that -- some stuff just isn't going to be reproducable to standard by a machinist, however skilled, without access to facilities above and beyond that organic to division/corps/army level maintenance units.
This would be a much bigger headache for aviation units than ground vehicles, since it's much easier for a parts failure to be much more catastrophic, and probably plays an equal role to combat attrition and fuel scarcity in the general clearing of European skies by 2000.