Only 230 Hours on CUCV

[mkcoen]

Thumbing through the auctions today and came across something interesting. A govt owned K5 (not a CUCV) Blazer that proudly boasts 5k miles and 230 hours. That got me curious as I had never known a Blazer CUCV or not, even with a diesal, to have an hour meter. Turns out I was correct as what they were calling 230 hours was the mileage on the trip meter and anyone looking at engine would assume the 5k miles was really 105k.

 

[rottiedog]

Do I have a trip meter??? I'll be looking...

 

[mkcoen]

Again, this was NOT a CUCV but a civilian Blazer that some area of the govt had. It's painted gray so I'm thinking Navy.

 

[Crash_AF]

Yea, but it requires an EUC... why? I don't know...

Later,
Joe

 

[papercu]

but it requires an EUC... why? I don't know...

Because whoever turned it in listed it with a NSN of 2320-01-123-2665 which is a CUCV. Wayne

 

[ida34]

My old department used to add hour meters to the traffic cars since they would sit idling for long periods. This may have been the case with this one also.

 

[MilitaryRestoration]

I have seen hour meters on cucv's before... nothing stock i dont think but rather installed 'aftermarket' but still from military guys

 

[mkcoen]

Here's what they're calling an "Hour Meter"

 

[CUCVFAN]

I saw a 5-ton recently with a mileage of something like "327,123" and the pic of the speedometer clearly showed 32712.3, so you never can believe what gets tracscribed into the listing description...

 

[ida34]

That is a trip odometer not an hour meter. The rest knob is just to the right of the digits.

 

[mkcoen]

Guys, read the 1st post of this thread. I said it was a "trip meter" so nobody needs to guess that anymore.