The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle project, better known today as the Humvee, can be traced back to a US Department of Defense request for bids to build a new military truck.

If you’re like us, you’ve fantasized about buying a military surplus Humvee for cheap and turning it into some cool off-roader. Normal people don’t sit around and think about such things.

I'll never forget the day we were meeting at an off-roading trail and my buddy showed up in an honest-to-goodness military Humvee. Like any 4×4 fan would be, I was intrigued how he'd gotten his ...