Posted on 12/15/2014 4:05:56 PM PST by fso301
If you, like this author, always dreamed of using a camo-covered, Army-issue Humvee as your personal golf cart, your dreams can finally come true — for a price.
According to the Army Times, the Department of Defense will start auctioning off as many as 4,000 military-spec Humvees to the public as part of its surplus-reduction efforts. In previous years, the off-road behemoths would have been sent straight to the military scrapyard, but due to changes in policies in recent years and what the Defense Logistics Agency spokesperson Michelle McCaskill describes as “cooperation from other government offices," the used Humvees will be sold instead of scrapped for the first time.
(Excerpt) Read more at autos.yahoo.com ...
No titles with them so can’t be licensed for on road use.
That’s a pretty big drawback I’d think.
Local PD’s, post offices, WalMarts, EPA, NOAA, Dept of Forestry, VA, National Parks...
Right?
Easy dispersed forward staging.
Sure they can. You just title them as a specialty built auto.
You have to know they’re likely rode hard and put away wet. Like buying a used police cruiser. By the time they take out the radios and lights and peel off the decals you know they’re hammered.
CC
If they are sold with a SF-97, you can get a title. I’ve done it for many military trucks.
Not a lot of room on the inside and difficult to park.
If that’s the case, purchase all you can afford!
Or maybe an “R” title as a Reconstructed vehicle. There are surely a bunch of retrofits that will be required to make then street legal, depending on the state they go to.
I’ve heard the gypsy cab companies buy those Ford CVPI cop cars with 100000 miles and run them for 200000 more. God bless old school body on frame rwd construction.
Great. Buy all you want.
I was just quoting from the article.
There’s always a way to get them licensed to drive on the street. How do you think hot rods, made from multiple autos, are licensed. Call it a “Collector Car”.
The wording of the article indicates that the "not for on-road use" is a condition separate and distinct from the "no title". As in "these are not road-legal, period".
In case you were planning to rumble up to church on Christmas morning and scare the little old ladies in the parking lot in one of these things, they will not be considered roadworthy.
Which makes me wonder about the National Guard Hummers that we all see on the highway as they go to and from their weekend training.
Wonder what it is that prevents road licensing? Seatbelts, emissions, bumper height?
I know the mil trucks don’t have to meet some of the MVSS, NHTSA, and EPA standards for regular on-highway motor vehicles. But if your state licensing is good with that, enjoy the ride.
It’s probably some combination of those factors, but I’ll bet there’s a web forum for the H1 out there with the specific answers.
The reason that the HMMWV hasn’t been sold to the public is that they don’t have meet the safety requirements that other on-street vehicles do.
Prices will start at $10,000
Eff that.
I’ve driven some of the mil ones when we were upgrading the powertrain to the Duramax engine and Allison transmission.
They’re 101 inches wide, and that really shows up on road - similar to a full size motor coach.
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