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 I never saw one of those.
I remember the crazy Chenoweth spec op dune buggies.
“I remember the crazy Chenoweth spec op dune buggies.”
Now your talking. LOL
Aint no slack in a fast attack...
No cover either.
I never saw one. When I was a NG we still had Gamma Goats LOL. Now that was a fun night in the swamps at Ft Stewart. We had it for a couple of days to replace our Duse and Half in the shop.
Yep ....my back hurts just looking at those seats .....:o)
I don’t need no stinking Hummer, the County fixes our bridges...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1RG3T6dv-c
Some years ago one of the local radio stations had a H1. It was rumored that the service to keep it operational was higher than the payments. They were what $60K? Ouch
They have to be better than some (most) of the RatRods people drive to car shows!
I went to look at a used garden tractor and the guy had a half dozen old Checker cabs along with probably a million pounds of junk. He was one of those guys who was going to get them running “some day”.
Here’s the results of the first round auction
http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/18/army-surplus-humvee-auction-744k/
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