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shortbus4x4 said:
My grandfather on my dad's side built LSTs in the first half of the 1940s at Kaiser shipyards near Vancouver WA. Had a childhood dentist who owned a Liberty ship he'd converted to a tuna fishing boat. Would love a landing craft.:grinpimp:
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My neighbor back in Rhode Island owned one and i got to ride in it once and that Detroit sure did scream and it was sloooow as fuck. His family owned a tiny island in Narragansett Bay that had 6 or 7 houses on it and he used the landing craft to shuttle trash, supplies and propane tanks to and from the island and whatever equipment they needed.
 
shortbus4x4 said:
My grandfather on my dad's side built LSTs in the first half of the 1940s at Kaiser shipyards near Vancouver WA. Had a childhood dentist who owned a Liberty ship he'd converted to a tuna fishing boat. Would love a landing craft.:grinpimp:
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When I was in Panama we did a training mission with a little help from the Navy folks that shared Fort Davis with us (and a handful of Marines). We loaded a couple gun trucks in to a modern landing craft and cruised part of Panama Canal. They offloaded us on a “beach” somewhere north of Panama city. That was the only time I ever worked with the Navy.

A landing craft, or something amphibious would be fun :smokin:
 
Projectjunkie said:
So buy 40 humvees a box truck with a winch, create a shell company, hire 5 cubans, mark 12 hummers 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3 only rent out 1,2,3 at a time, while the cubans keep the other 9 running, pulling them back to the top secret base in the box truck. Corner the market on 6.2 and 6.5 parts.

Your competitors will see that your 3 hummers are always rented out, with no downtime and want some for themselves. Start selling them hummers from your shell company, taking their Jeeps, utvs, or whatever else they might rent out on trade.

Then as they're failing and grasping at straws, on a hectic Friday afternoon, drop each of your competitors an offer on your 3 hummers, 1,2,3 and unload them 12 lemons right then:laughing:

Bankrupt them fuckers, takeover their real estate then rent out their Jeeps and utvs:flipoff2:


On their way out of town, tell them about the cubans:laughing:








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Would you be interested in a consulting position?

You have the skillset I very much need.

With your help I can take over this town!
 
i have bought 3 and my buddy bought 3. they are loud obnoxious pieces of shit. but they do draw a lot of attention. they are really not that wide. the seating position just makes them seem that way. i am going to put a cammed 6.0 in one, that should make it a world better.
 
What about 3-4 modern rail buggies. Easy to work on.
 
crispins said:
I need a roof and room for 4 people, those are the requirements I have.

Rail buggies are hard to get into, and I would never ever ever run VW engines nor manual transmissions.
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4 seaters exist and most of them run chevy ecotec's now.
 
Local guy has put 2 6.0's in them. More than doubles the power.

IDK what people say. I still want one. :usa:
 
crispins said:
I have decided to add Hummers to my rental fleet for 2025.

First are they reliable? No

What I have been told by someone that rents them is you buy 5 to get 3 running ones, truth?

Is there a company that sells turn key ones? Ye$

This guy is offering to sell me some for $50k each but that seems high. Price is all over the place for them for ready to roll.

I am looking for the actual military ones that have been made street legal.

A quick google search only turns up the imported ones from the 90's that were made for the street and are selling for $100k

I just want them basic, no doors, no a/c, just barebones.

I know they are loud (doesn't matter) they don't go fast (what is the cruising speed?) Slow

I plan on wrapping them in crazy colors and renting them out, so educamaite me. :homer:
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Get them from GovPlanet or the like. Much cheaper. Come with all demilitarization complete and an SF97 (Form for titling them) is available. A lot are already stripped down to what you are looking for. Shop big enough to work on them? Hire someone to maintain and work on them. And a wrecker to tow them, Ex-Mil wrecker? Complete the look.

That said.. They would be more fun to rent for off road use, dirt or sand hills. I'd be willing to bet renting them for road use would be a net positive in the end. But how long will it take to get there and how much will that positive be vs. other options.
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
You should get a landing craft instead and help PAE out by floating his containers to Alaska. :lmao:
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:lmao:

9' tall tires vs. an overall height of less than 9'. The video of Lane Motor Museum getting their LARC through the city was wild. That thing is freaking huge in person.

But I do like your idea idea and fully endorse it.
 
FlatLander said:
:lmao:

9' tall tires vs. an overall height of less than 9'. The video of Lane Motor Museum getting their LARC through the city was wild. That thing is freaking huge in person.

But I do like your idea idea and fully endorse it.
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Would love to get up close and personal with a LARC.
 
shortbus4x4 said:
My grandfather on my dad's side built LSTs in the first half of the 1940s at Kaiser shipyards near Vancouver WA. Had a childhood dentist who owned a Liberty ship he'd converted to a tuna fishing boat. Would love a landing craft.:grinpimp:
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There's a higgins boat on CL in Maine.
 
Get some early 2000s GM products or some 5.4 superduties/excursions and body swap them to complete the look:

www.4x4bodies.com

Urban Gorilla 4x4 Bodies

www.4x4bodies.com www.4x4bodies.com

You could have 2-, 4-, or even 6-door units to rent.

Chassis/drivetrain would be reliable and you would get the hummer "look" while keeping the interior comfort bits from the donor vehicle.
 
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bad zuki said:
Local guy has put 2 6.0's in them. More than doubles the power.

IDK what people say. I still want one. :usa:
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If i ever bought one, the first thing i would do is replace that turd diesel with a warmed up 6.0.

I think a 6.0 swapped one with a bright colored wrap job, some comfortable seats, and a nice stereo would rent out regularly.

I was just up in the Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg area a few weeks ago. I was surprised at all the SxS and Jeep rental places. It seems like people rent them just to drive around town, into Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and to drive the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. They all have street AT tires and are clean.
 
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Weasel said:
Roxor would be a good idea, find a kit for them to make them look like old army jeeps, wrap them in white stars and OD.

Seems like a winnner to me.
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right, everything someone wants when "renting" a car of that type....least IMO. shoot, wrap the front bumper with a rope, add some jerry cans, etc. Again, far more reliable, you can probably finance them, and in many place tag them.
 
crispins said:
I need a roof and room for 4 people, those are the requirements I have.

Rail buggies are hard to get into, and I would never ever ever run VW engines nor manual transmissions.
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Ok, scratch my 911 safari idea....panamera safari it is! Could be even cheaper, given old hump back panamera's go for pennies.
 
pennsylvaniaboy said:
Honestly for the value, I think a mahindra ROXOR would be a better investment....
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For a machine to own yes.

My lunch money says the Hummer will get way more attention though as a rental. For that purpose, it only has to be fun for half a day or a day. Which is about how long that would last. Mine is nothing special at all and gets way more attention than I care for.

My biggest concern with renting the Hummer, especially in the OP location, is the lack of the park position in the transmission.
 
I could see a hummer rental attracting alot of tourists. The every day person doesn't look as deep as someone on Here. They just want to drive and take a picture with it.

The 350 sbc or ls swap mentioned earlier would be a must do. I'm not familiar with hummers, could you jam a sbc-th350-np208 and call it a day. A quadrajet is basically fuel injection. Or just leave it 2wd and forget the transfer case?

The noisy smelly diesel could be unattractive for return people's.


shortbus4x4 said:
I just like them. I have an OD sickness. Don't want one that's modified, all OE like they were June 6 1944.
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From my understanding, those things were junk from the start, and only built to survive maybe one mission. War time mass production.
 
Bacho said:
For a machine to own yes.

My lunch money says the Hummer will get way more attention though as a rental. For that purpose, it only has to be fun for half a day or a day. Which is about how long that would last. Mine is nothing special at all and gets way more attention than I care for.

My biggest concern with renting the Hummer, especially in the OP location, is the lack of the park position in the transmission.
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If he gets a newer version, they come with the 6.5 NA engine and a 4L80e with park. Or he can find the right TCM and get an A2/E1 version 4L80e and retrofit it.
 
Bacho said:
For a machine to own yes.

My lunch money says the Hummer will get way more attention though as a rental. For that purpose, it only has to be fun for half a day or a day. Which is about how long that would last. Mine is nothing special at all and gets way more attention than I care for.

My biggest concern with renting the Hummer, especially in the OP location, is the lack of the park position in the transmission.
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lease your Hummer to crispy for a season to let him to prove this out, then sell it to him at end of the season due to all of corrosive french fries and ice cream melts found under seats, evidences of was parked outside in rain, door dings, scratches on bumpers. :flipoff2:
 
TrailTamer said:
lease your Hummer to crispy for a season to let him to prove this out, then sell it to him at end of the season due to all of corrosive french fries and ice cream melts found under seats, evidences of was parked outside in rain, door dings, scratches on bumpers. :flipoff2:
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Deal
 
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