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As the war people that we are not, there is, however, one detail connected to the battlefield that always triggered our little petrolhead eager for mud-madness: the Humvee. AM General’s High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) may have lacked a catchy acronym at first, but it didn’t take much for it to become one of the most popular machines the military has ever seen. Civilians can finally have one too.
Of this news, you may have heard before a while ago. The thing is, people are starting to take Humvees for a ride nowadays, which is quite exciting since it allows us to get a better view of what driving one really feels like.
We have first reported about the government’s decision a little under one year ago. After holding any such sale on a pause for about 15 years, the DLA (which stands for Disposition Logistics Agency, the group currently supervising the release of surplus military material) has decided to go with the flow. They are selling these bad boys online, and you can get one too.
You need to check out GovPlanet and enter this marketplace for buying and selling used government assets. Yep, Humvees for everybody. Until recently, there was a catch, though: those who did get the former military vehicle could only drive them off-road.
Even that is apparently changing since, according to Yahoo News, each issue comes with the all-important SF97 form. This piece of paper is crucial, since it allows you to apply for a title, which turns the 4WD into road-legal auto. If you manage to get by the bureaucracy of your individual state, that is.
So here we are, looking at a petrolhead having the joyride only a machine like this could offer. For the road test in question, they took a 1987 model to the Outback Motorsports Complex, a 700-acres off-road paradise laced with all sorts of challenges. Disneyland for petrolheads with a soft spot for mud.
Well, they may be decommissioned by the military for the newer, Oshkosh trucks, but that doesn’t mean civilians shouldn’t get a taste, for a change.
We have first reported about the government’s decision a little under one year ago. After holding any such sale on a pause for about 15 years, the DLA (which stands for Disposition Logistics Agency, the group currently supervising the release of surplus military material) has decided to go with the flow. They are selling these bad boys online, and you can get one too.
You need to check out GovPlanet and enter this marketplace for buying and selling used government assets. Yep, Humvees for everybody. Until recently, there was a catch, though: those who did get the former military vehicle could only drive them off-road.
Even that is apparently changing since, according to Yahoo News, each issue comes with the all-important SF97 form. This piece of paper is crucial, since it allows you to apply for a title, which turns the 4WD into road-legal auto. If you manage to get by the bureaucracy of your individual state, that is.
So here we are, looking at a petrolhead having the joyride only a machine like this could offer. For the road test in question, they took a 1987 model to the Outback Motorsports Complex, a 700-acres off-road paradise laced with all sorts of challenges. Disneyland for petrolheads with a soft spot for mud.
Well, they may be decommissioned by the military for the newer, Oshkosh trucks, but that doesn’t mean civilians shouldn’t get a taste, for a change.
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