Wow ... I did not know that any HMMWV had airbags. Wow... Because it does not say it could be made road worthy means it can never be. So don't eat. Don't drink. There are bunches of laws saying don't eat or drink this or that there is not a single law telling anyone to eat or drink. We here in America are suppose to be free. This means that the laws work the same across the board. It does not mean that you get to extrapolate a hold harmless agreement into a law. It is not a law it is as it is stated 'Hold Harmless Agreement' or for those who don't get it means 'you can't blame me for selling you this crap agreement'.The "Waiver and hold harmless agreement" states
Does not say: unless made road worthy or street legal or something like "agrees that Humvee in its current condition is for off-highway use only
It states
agrees that Humvee is for off-highway use only.
How I read this is that it is for off-road use only, period.
The rest of the form is bla bla that no matter what happens, how it happened, or how good or bad the vehicle is, by signing this agreement the buyer accepts the vehicle "as is" and from hereon forward nobody except the buyer is responsible for anything that happens.
It would be better if they would have split the first point into two separate points but I am not sure if legally it would make much difference.
So some lucky early people legally for high $$$ bought an Humvee that could be titled for on-road, the rest seems to be limited to off-road unless:
- the law changes
- they do some fancy footwork
- through whatever fluke they did not sign any form that includes the "off-road" statement.
According his remarks, Maverick seems to be in the last category.
Other question from a thread from 2011 on this topic. One point is that to make it street legal, any Humvee made after 1997 has to have approved airbags. Don't know what other and older requirements there are, but installing an approved system of airbags seems like a difficult and expensive exercise to me.
If I bought a car from a junk yard they probably would say it was salvage, I know someone who did that. The junk yard said it was not road-worthy, made him sign a hold harmless. It was up to him to make it road worthy and the junk yard wanted to held harmless, saying the car was crap. So to your point of view then every car show on TV where they buy and fix up salvage is wrong to do so unless they get written permission that the crap they bought was roadworthy before it was roadworthy. And to your thinking, you also think they need to add airbags(that would be stupid and very dangerous). After a while no one could buy and fix up anything without permission of YOU or maybe presidential permission maybe?
Good luck to you but you could not be more wrong.