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this Dirt Every Day Extra I want to talk to you about buying a government
surplus vehicle there's a company online called Gov Planet and they also have a
sister company called Iron Planet and what they do is they take in government
surplus vehicles put them up for auction and people like you can bid on them now
what qualifies as a government surplus vehicle it's pretty much anything that
the government no longer needs and is no longer going to go to any of smaller
outlying government facilities so it could be like an old golf cart it could
be this work truck that's full of a bunch of lawn equipment a big old Deuce
and a half two and a half ton truck Humvees they have tons and tons of
Humvees because they're getting demilitarized and they're selling them
off to the public all the way up to giant tank tank hauling trucks go
planet.com they you basically have to go on you sign up you get a number and then
you watch the auctions they have different auctions coming up throughout
the year and everything that you could imagine the government has ever used
they're probably selling now I'm pretty sure stuff like real tanks and jets and
weapons you cannot buy through gov planet it's
all kind of like the the more useful work trucks the Humvees you're not going
to get one with a machine gun on the top and you can get a full variety of
Humvees and all these trucks some of them are really beat-up because if you
think about it a lot of the guys in the military like their young kids like you
watching this show they get into the military they get to drive these things
sometimes they're a little rough on equipment and some of the vehicles are
actually really really well maintained I've seen vehicles with hardly any miles
hardly any hours on them all the way up to stuff that is just destroyed but
that's the cool thing about Gulf planet you go there it has a full description
somebody has inspected every one if the thing doesn't run it says it right there
if it says it runs and drives that is also there in the description so you can
get a chance to kind of look over all these vehicles and it's not just
vehicles here in Barstow California where we're at it's vehicle all over the
country factories all over the world I've seen Unimogs in Guam and I've seen
big tank haulers in Pennsylvania and tractors in Illinois and Texas and
Wisconsin they have so many auctions going on simultaneously all over the
world that there's probably something near you plus if you're interested in it
there's companies that will ship the vehicle to you so you're kind of buying
these things semi sight unseen it's not completely a blind auction because they
have a lot of photos it's not just one blurry shot there's photos of the
interior the exterior under the hood and there's a good description on every
vehicle that you'd be purchasing we are taking home this Humvee for an upcoming
episode of dirt every day now the Humvees are really cool because it's got
a diesel engine it's got an automatic transmission full independent suspension
portal axles so they have a really wide stance they're really kind of low to the
ground but they have a lot of ground clearance
and it's kind of neat because I've never I've driven a Humvee before I've never
really gotten to wheel one really hard and so in this upcoming episode of dirt
every day which you can find on our motor journal or YouTube we are going to
build this thing and we're going to take it out rock crawling and really see what
type of abuse it can take but if you're looking for a military surplus vehicle
like my Alabama army truck the one I've built before I've even seen some jeeps
on there this gulf planet and iron planet websites you have to go check
them out they have all types of really cool stuff like a deuce enhance who
doesn't need a deuce in it so Unimogs boats all types of equipment tires
machinery gov planet.com go check it out that's different over to extras tune in
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