Watch Grind Hard Plumbing Co. Finally Get Its Humvee Home

If you have watched the previous three installments in Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s Humvee road trip saga, you already know it’s a disaster. If you haven’t, maybe you should go do that, then come back. The surprising thing isn’t that the rigs were beaten to within an inch of their lives and none too happy about a 1,000-mile trek across the West. The surprising thing is that, even after many hours in the Fab Rats shop and a raft of expensive new parts, one of the rigs still barely made it.

If you are considering buying a surplus Humvee from the government, maybe don’t. Or at least, don’t unless you have a deep cavern of resources to chuck at it. If this rig is anything to go on, you’ll have to comprehensively refresh both ends and every corner of the machine before it is anywhere close to viable transportation. And even then, it’ll be little more than an aluminum tub with a set of tractor seats.

That said, if you are nuts enough, skilled enough, and have enough disposable income, old Humvees really are pretty glorious. They’re unique, capable, and rugged, and can take you to some of the coolest places in the country.

Just make sure you get one that hasn’t been worked like a rented mule and maintained like a used paper towel.

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