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The local Veteran's Day parade wanted the HMMWV and told me I would have two WWII vets in the back seats. Cool, I'll be there. So I get to the staging area this morning and discovered my County Sheriffs have an MRAP? Sleepy little county with a SWAT team, an armored HMMWV (they didn't bring...

I didn't mean at that particular time, just any time while you were out there. There's a short hill-climb on the nearby mil base, and my M1165 will get about half-way up and stop because one wheel on each side will be either off the ground (it's very rutted) or not have enough traction to...

Question: Are you running the stock axles? If so, did you need to do the brake-throttle modulation at any point or did it have sufficient traction it was not needed?

Seems I parked a little too close to the local car show. EDIT to add: They posted a video of the event, the only two mil vehicles appear at 2:37

Thanks RWH! The (what I believe to be) 1151s were over in the active compound where I didn't take pictures.

I had to drive over to the "other" base to fill the tank in the M1165 and stopped at the compound where they up-armor the HMMWs. There were two very nice M1151s in there with full turrets and all the armor. No pictures of that area as I would want to ask permission first and nobody came out to...

What you really needed was the bumper sticker: HMMWV - IT'S LIKE A JEEP, BUT FOR MEN

Finally some spring!

With spring reluctantly arriving, maybe next month, it's time to start getting the garden beds in order. One of the things I need to do is dig them out and sift the dirt back in. I remember seeing a screen frame on the beach at Keyport so I drove the M1165 out to see if it was still there...

I can't believe you all missed the significance of that photo. You captured one of the rare all-electric powered HMMWVs. The giveaway is the generator in the bed- that supplies the electricity to run the electric motor. That's some serious cutting edge technology the military is fielding.

^^^^ Makes me glad my commute is 15 minutes door to door.

Woke up at 4:30 to go to work with about 4" of snow on the ground and nothing plowed. Took the Grand Cherokee which is very good in snow due to electronic locking diffs and traction control, plus four new Mickey Thomson BajaBoss AT tires. We got off early because the snow kept falling - that's...

I finally get to post in this thread. It's plated and legal now. Still several odd jobs around the vehicle that need doing. Rides good other than the feeling that the wheels aren't completely of a necessary round shape.

That dude doesn't have the guts to man the turret.