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From time to time I end up doing some work for the areas biggest Caddy/AM Gen dealership. I found this pic after having an old roll of film developed, they had a couple of these on the dealership grounds for a few days.
Cool.

Dalannex

Humvee, or however thats spelled. That would be kind of handy, especially in the middle of one of these good old South Dakota blizzards. :D Not being able to see while driving in a blizzard is nothing to get excited about, but that 2 foot deep snow gets a little bit annoying. :jester Did you happen to look at the axles on them things and see how much ground clearance they have? It's really a :cool: setup.

DavidOrr

I hate to admit it, but if I had an extra 70K laying around - the vette would become a weekend driver, and the humvee would become the daily.

SevenT1Shark

Yea, i have a soft spot for those hummers also. I just saw a black one hauling a snowmobile trailer with 6 new sleds on it going north. Wicked :cool: ....

427V8

Yea they are :cool
I like the fact they can climb over a 4' vertical wall :eek:
( or so I've read )

jimduchek

My boss has one.. I couldn't daily drive it, the seats are comfy but it's pretty cramped... hrm.. never mind, sounds like my DD C3. I would just get flipped out being that far off the ground... Just getting into motorcycle weather and having really daily driven the 'vette for the first whole winter, being on my moto is too far off the ground for me! :) Anyway, the 'trick' axle setup for ground clearance someone mentioned, for those who don't know, the hubs are geared (it's 2:1 if I recall)... The axle shafts go into the TOP part of the hub, not the center... so it provides more ground clearance, and then there's gears in the hub.. and then of course they can inflate/deflate the tires from inside the cab... They are pretty awesome machines... Oddly enough my boss just sheared his Pitman arm right in two the other night, doing circles in a parking lot... Ehehe... We made fun of him a lot for his 'rugged' hummer breaking in a parking lot, but to be honest, 8000 lb vehicle on huge tires on pavement, lotta traction there too, and unlike our C3's the 'power' in the power steering is before, not after, the pitman arm...

Jim

garagedweller2

nice car, but the trans. tunnel hogs up 1/2 the interior. i want the mil spec version!

bence13_33

Keith:
I know what you mean, I drive over 4' walls quite frequently ;) j/k. That is pretty cool that they are able to do that though!

Monty

They are awesome machines. When I was in the Army, I used to drive my own. Officers usually have a driver, but I liked driving it so much, I drove myself. I still had a driver, but he usually rode shotgun. It was always good for a laugh when we'd go through a checkpoint, the security guard would come to the drivers door expecting a Private or Specialist and find a Captain, then he'd look over at the drivers set and find the Specialist. Always good for a confused look.

Anyway, we used to go out to the Mojave Desert every year to the National Training Center at Ft Irwin, outside of Barstow. We'd really get to put the equipment through a test, but we had a great time 'off roading' with the HMMV's. There's nothing better than hauling butt through the desert in the middle of the night, with no headlights, using NVG's to see the way.

They're pretty fun it the snow too. We'd do donuts and powerslides, etc. They're great until you get them on the highway. 60-65 mph top speed (the military versions run on JP-8/diesel), and loud as heck.


[Modified by Monty, 5:38 PM 2/15/2002]