[rescue] My new toy in Laurel MD!
Mike Hebel
nimitz at speakeasy.net
Mon Nov 18 21:28:27 CST 2002
Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> The old Jeeps (not sure of make or model) for the military had
> independant, rather than solid rear axle, rear suspensions. If you
> were not careful, the independant suspension would dump you with
> little warning.
There's an old army training film I saw a clip of once that showed
exactly how easy it was to totally tumble one of these. Pretty cool!
Anybody know where that video would be now?
> The army would decommission them by cutting them in half. It was thus
> up to enterprising Jeep lovers to buy a front half and a back half and
> figure out how to put it together again.
Probably a fairly simple process - I'm sure there was a few rings of
"Jeep welders" around that time. I also heard that the ones left in
Europe were buried in large amounts because the auto industry never
wanted them to come home. ;-)
> I would have rather the army sold them whole. People are not idiots,
> contrary to what many of us think, and would have figured out how not
> to abuse them relatively quickly.
*Ahem* "People are dumb, panicky, and you know it!" - MIB
I'm sure the people that would acutally _want_ these though would not
fit the "average" group criteria. But then the Darwin Award can be
given to anybody...
> Alternatively, those seriously thinking of buying could fly to a
> Hummer-heavy area like Denver CO and spend a few days looking at them
> locally before either buying and driving back or hopping on the plane
> to go home.
There's a Hummer place in Schaumburg, IL and another in Naperville, IL.
I've never bothered to stop and take a test-drive because I was
interested in the military ones not the fancy leather and chrome ones.
Mike Hebel
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