Who can I pay to give me a hummer?

[Indy_Guy_77]

If u get one, buy an external heater or you'll freeze your ass off in this weather... Nobody felt like sharing that with me.

Spill the beans...

You went and played in the snow, didn't you?

-J-

 

[vitamink]

I certainly did. I'd love to spill the beans, but the beans haven't dropped yet. So cold.

 

[CTC B4Z]

Where is latest place to pick one of these up

 

[CathyInBlue]

Dude in Moscow just one-upped you. Bought a Belorussian BRDM-2 for BYR100,000,000 (That's one hundred million Belorussian rubles (About US$9,500.00)) and carted it back home.

ntv: How to buy a tank. A BRDM-2 story. English version.

 

[vitamink]

There's another dude in Moscow that pimps those rides with Tvs and leather. He's on eBay from time to time.

 

[LEaSH]

So how's it going with this, vitamink?

You do anything to prep it for winter? Aux heater, etc?

Is it everything you'd hoped it would be? You still have it, right?

 

[vitamink]

The HMMWV is great! It amazes me that it fires right up every time no matter the temperature or conditions. The only drawback is the fact that it has 50x the amount of oil seals that a normal car has. If you don’t move it often enough the seals will begin to leak. Fixing them is easy, and keeping it moving is fun so no big deal there. Right now it’s mostly used in parades, car shows, Wounded Warrior stuff, and veteran reunions. Veterans love to let their Kids play on it and really enjoy driving it. So far they’ve all said it’s better than what they had when they were in so it makes me feel good that I’m keeping it up to snuff. I belong to the Military Vehicle Preservation Association and I’m the only one with a HMMWV. Its nice as those guys often come across HMMWV parts like glow plugs or doors that they can’t use. Other than Diesel, I don’t have to spend much $ on it.

Fast forward to 7:55 to see some Vietnam vets playing around with it. It's someone else's video and it's only about two seconds but you can hear it running.

[video=youtube;v_1otxRpHYQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_1otxRpHYQ[/video]

I’ve added a few things since I brought it home.

1.An airlift bumper
2.Rhino tire carrier
3.Tear drop shackles
4.24bolt wrangler mtr spare
5.Mk64 gun mount
6.Aux radiator fan
7.An/Vic3 intercom system
8.Gutted Sincgars radio

I’m currently installing an Ibis Tek HID bar with IR driving lights. I’m waiting for a warm enough day to paint it as they were developed during the middle east conflict and therefore painted CARC tan. This is in case I want to drive this big noisy bastard in middle of the night without anyone seeing me.


Ibis Tek IR lights

I’m also in contact with a local fella who’s going to attempt to make a special forces hood rack for it as you can’t buy the real thing and even if you could, you’d go broke.

As far as heating goes, I’m going to install some 24v heat pads for the seats. If that’s not enough I have a propane tent heater that can help out if needed. I may install the artic heater and insulation kit, but that seems sort of extreme.

 

[mbills2223]

dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

 

[actaeon277]

a rhino tire carrier.

 

[semperfi211]

Surplus Humvee auctions to public a first for DoD

 

[halfmileharry]

Surplus Humvee auctions to public a first for DoD

I was hearing rumors of this sale a few months ago. I "heard" $4,000 would buy one. After reading the article I now know where that "4,000" figure came from.

 

[KJQ6945]

I was promised a ride a long time ago, the Kriss and the ump were in NFA prison then, the barrels are almost shot out now. Still waiting for the phone to ring like a ugly girl on prom night...........

 

[vitamink]

You can still ride along. Hell, you can even drive it if you want. I'm planning on taking it to a cancer benefit at the Melody Inn on the 28th. It's currently being worked on. I'm doing the wiring for the control box for the Ibis Tek Bar and i should be finished by tomorrow. I just disassembled the bar itself and i'm sanding and painting it CARC green. Realistically i should have just taped off the lights and sprayed over the thing as that's what would have been done in the .mil but i guess i wanted a more uniform appearance. The picture below is of the bar disassembled. The black boxes are the IR LEDs. Once I get it installed ill take a picture in pitch black with just the IR driving lights, turn signals and light bar on while wearing NVGs.

I just finished milling down the "medium tow bar feet" for the towbar. I figured i need that incase i have another catastrophic incident like the geared hub explosion of 2013. I painted the feet black and sleeved the hole so it can fit the tow bar pins without any rattles.

For those that were looking at the recent HMMWV auction, here is the results:



25 trucks sold
Highest price: Last one at $41000
Lowest Price: first one at $21500
Total Price: $744,000
Average price: $29760
Number of attendees: 109512

Item #	Description	#bids		Loc.	Winning Bid
544985	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	535		Utah	$41,000.00
544988	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	119		Utah	$35,000.00
544991	1995 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	238		Utah	$38,500.00
543219	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	105		Utah	$33,000.00
544987	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	188		Utah	$33,500.00
544980	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	73		Utah	$26,500.00
544986	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	160		Utah	$32,000.00
544982	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	79		Utah	$25,500.00
543218	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	83		Utah	$29,500.00
544992	1991 AM General M1038 Humvee HMMWV	107		Utah	$29,500.00
544983	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	101		Utah	$30,500.00
543211	1990 AM General M998 Humvee HMMWV	205		Utah	$33,000.00
543217	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	55		Utah	$25,000.00
544989	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	77		Utah	$28,500.00
544984	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	47		Utah	$25,500.00
543214	1990 AM General M998 Humvee HMMWV	54		Utah	$26,500.00
544990	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	117		Utah	$28,000.00
543212	1987 AM General M998 Humvee HMMWV	89		Utah	$30,000.00
543215	1990 AM General M998 Humvee HMMWV	503		Utah	$34,000.00
544981	1994 AM General M998A1 Humvee HMMWV	146		Utah	$30,000.00
543213	1991 AM General M1038 Humvee HMMWV	319		Utah	$29,500.00
544978	1989 AM General M1038 Humvee HMMWV	27		Utah	$24,000.00
544979	1993 AM General M998 Humvee HMMWV	126		Utah	$28,500.00
543222	1987 AM General M1038 Humvee HMMWV	125		Utah	$25,500.00
543220	1989 AM General M1038 Humvee HMMWV	61		Utah	$21,500.00
					$744,000.00

 

[KJQ6945]

You bastard! For that you can ride under the passenger front tire...unless i can shoot your HK or Vector...in that case you can cling tenaciously to the bumper or something.

Lets go shooting, you can pick me up.

 

[vitamink]

Where u at?

 

[Clay]

so, can you take me to the Monster Trucks in your monster truck?

 

[vitamink]

When is it? If it's after the 28th then yes. If before, i'll get you rockstar parking and chauffeur you around. You can feel what it's like to be me for a day #glamourous.

 

[Clay]

January 24

 

[vitamink]

Send me a text about a week out as i won't have my new work schedule until the end of december.

Update time:

Just finished painting and installing the new light bar. Wiring is yet to come, but it's pretty easy. I would have done it now, but it's freezing and dark out.

The control box…
I'm torn between painting it and leaving it tan. If i leave it tan i get to keep the labels. If i paint it, i have to strip them. Thoughts?

Also if anyone sees a set of these, give me a PM

 

[KJQ6945]

Where u at?

Wanamaker. It's like Carmel for rednecks.