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Check MV Magazine issues 76 and 77 for the whole story on the USMC/UD "auction" of several hundred ex USMC M998's in late 1999. It is all legit, but Uncle Sam closed that loophole after that for M998's getting out into public hands. With regards to Clark Truck and TNJ selling them to other...

There is a few good articles in Army Logisitican on the costs to rebuild a humvee VS buying a new one. And the rebuilds are just as good as brand new ones. The cost savings is huge. http://www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/NovDec06/pdf/nov_dec06.pdf Thats just one of the articles. Ansd here is...

I 100% agree, but it's not gonna happen. You can blame the M151 sales and deaths for that.....

Uncle Sam probably COULD sell them as off road use only, but bottom line, the whole HMMWV fleet is under a rebuild/reset program. If it's rebuildable, it gets rebuilt. If it's not, it gets parted out and the rest is scrap metal at best. The whole off road use only thing is hard to enforce...

Basically thats it. Uncle Sam says they arent road worthy and dont meet DOT specs. (Think M151 from a while back) The few that you see in private hands came out of the USMC/UD sale a while back, and Uncle Sam closed that loophole quick. Basically, what M998's that are floating arround out...