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.
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Interesting.
Given their widespread usage, I’m surprised the aftermarket hasn’t come up with some type of add-on skid protector.
That is great off road.
That is great off road.
Where is the surplus AMMO!!!????
They have, the main problem was we were 8 months out on surplusing the Vics and the boys in blue thought they could influence the delivery date of the new Charger Interceptors. They starting jumping curbs like it was an episode of Dukes of Hazzard and we ended up with 6 of them in the garage with blown transmissions.
We had no choice but to replace them ($22,000) as that was 1/3 of the fleet. We stopped the epidemic from spreading by purchasing and installing the skid plates.
But seriously, if you look at the transmission pan it has a small (about 1/2 to 3/4 inch) little protusion extending downward (about the size of half you thumb) which is where this little pin (valve) sits. They would flatten that and drive that pin upwards into the transmission works.
“Wonder what it is that prevents road licensing? Seatbelts, emissions, bumper height?”
Safety. IIRC one issue is the doors aren’t crash-worthy up to NTSB standards. Okay for combat, but not Elm Street.
They are a bit of vinyl on a wire frame.
I'd rather have a rebuilt 78 Chevy K-5 4WD automatic myself.
I hear ya.
Even an old Bronco.
“They are a bit of vinyl on a wire frame.”
I remember criticism “the media” had for them during Desert Shield/Storm. They were upset because all US Military vehicles aren’t built like M1 tanks.
I know someone who bought an old WWII willy at one time and used it for business deliveries. Pretty cool.
Yeap.. I’ve owned two K-5’s before. IMO the best stock 4wd that Chevy built. Mom has a 2002 Tahoe. It’s great for highway driving and having a 4WD back up if you need it but the old K-5’s were for going back in the sticks and getting you back out once you got there.
I’m actually shocked how well the Tahoe works off road.
Imagine if they designed it for off road instead of luxury.
Now they are all armored up and are even slower pigs on the battlefield.
WWII surplus was CHEAP
Some of the legit cab companies do it too. pull it into the paint booth, whip out the checker cab yellow, Voila! a cab is born. The secret of the old checker cabs is they didn’t make their own engines and transmissions, they bought them from the big 3. They only made the bodies, which had all the mechanical sophistication of a paving brick.
CC
Some of the legit cab companies do it too. pull it into the paint booth, whip out the checker cab yellow, Voila! a cab is born. The secret of the old checker cabs is they didn’t make their own engines and transmissions, they bought them from the big 3. They only made the bodies, which had all the mechanical sophistication of a paving brick.
CC
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