914Driver wrote:John Brown wrote:The frame and bottom of those vehicles are Vee shaped, not the traditional flat. It allows IEDs to blow by, not hammer the vehicle into the air. Dan
That is a shop in Charlotte, Mi (Spartan Motors) they build bus, motorcoach and specialty chassis. One of our customers is one of the floor managers. Every once in a while he will get picked up in some monstrous military vehicle.
Force Protection in Ladson (suburb of Chuck) builds MRAPs. This one is the Cheetah and it has the V shaped 'hull' referred to earlier.
They also build one called the Cougar. I see them on trains down here all the time.
4eyes wrote: So when are the diesel hummers going up for sale as surplus?
There's a place near Donaldson Center (old AF base) near Greenville SC that refurbs and sells the H1s.
I see some kind of new armored vehicles travelling down I-26 headed south all the time. I figured they were headed to Chucktown to be shipped to the sand box.
I sooo want some surp. H1 goodness. It will have to be done with out the knowledge of the significant other. And it cant be in desert colors
I was driving up thru Mississippi on I-59 yesterday and passed dozens of flat bed rigs loaded with these headed south. I want one. Looks like a nice replacement for the humvee and they look like there're deffinitely in production. So, who makes them?
Looks mean, but what are all these being made for? 
November Surprise coming up?
deepcmonkey wrote: I was driving up thru Mississippi on I-59 yesterday and passed dozens of flat bed rigs loaded with these headed south. I want one. Looks like a nice replacement for the humvee and they look like there're deffinitely in production. So, who makes them?
Dozens of which vehicle? The first vehicle shown (a JLTV) isn't in production yet, though the next development phase (EMD) is in progress.
Was it the Oshkosh M-ATV? http://www.oshkoshdefense.com/products/5/m-atv
Deffinitely the the first pic. The JLTV. No confusing that design. This was just yesterday. If there are any variations made, from the first pic at the beginning of this blog, I couldn't tell. But it was deffinitely that design..In reply to njansenv:
GameboyRMH wrote: Looks mean, but what are all these being made for?
Haven't you heard? We're invading Canadia!
They are replacing the Humvee as needed due to attrition. In reply to GameboyRMH:
griffin729 wrote: Before 9/11 the hummers were for sale as surplus. IIRC a trip to Fort Knox and $2500 would get you a 15-20 year old HMMWV that had had the snot knocked out of it but it was still a hummer.
They stopped the sales a long time before 9/11. They decided that since the trucks don't meet highway regulations they can't be sold as road-worthy vehicles. So instead they started cutting them in half and selling them as scrap. People started welding them back together, so they then sold them as scrap and stipulated that the buyer must shred the vehicle in front of DRMO employees before ownership passes to the buyer. So I think the supply of actual military surplus Humvees is gone. The only "new" sources of them are going to be very sketchy indeed.
The result of that is you can't really buy them for anything approaching bargains. Even beat to crap with no top and no upper doors, a "good" deal is well over $15,000.
I found my preferred ZAV:
neon4891 wrote: I sooo want some surp. H1 goodness. It will have to be done with out the knowledge of the significant other. And it cant be in desert colors
If you get one I will donate a few rattle cans in the matte color of your choice and help you apply them.
The truck on the first page DEFINITELY isn't in production, yet. You may have seen the EMD vehicles, though I didn't think they were complete yet. None of the JLTV's are in production yet, with the arguable exception of GTV's (AM General and GDLS) new entry.
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