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                    [FORM OF FACE OF SPECIMAN CERTIFICATE]


COMMON STOCK                                                       COMMON STOCK

GK__________                       AMERCO                          ____________
                                                            

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS                                    SEE REVERSE FOR
  OF THE STATE OF NEVADA                                     CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

                                                              CUSIP 023586 10 0
THIS CERTIFIES THAT





IS THE RECORD HOLDER OF

FULLY PAID AND NONASSESSABLE SHARES OF THE COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE $.25, OF,
                                    AMERCO

transferable on the books of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person or
by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly
endorsed.  This certificate is not valid until countersigned and registered by
the Transfer Agent and Registrar.
  WITNESS in the facsimile seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures
of its duly authorized officers. 

Dated:

/s/                                                      /s/
______________________          [CORPORATE SEAL]          ______________________
SECRETARY                                                 PRESIDENT



Countersigned and Registered:
CHEMICAL TRUST COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
Transfer Agent and Registrar

By:_____________________________
   Authorized Signature



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                  [FORM OF REVERSE OF SPECIMAN CERTIFICATE]

  The Corporation will furnish to any stockholder, upon request and without
charge, a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative,
participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or
series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such
preferences and/or rights, so far as the same shall have been fixed, and of the
authority of the Board of Directors to designate and fix any preferences,
rights and limitations of any wholly unissued series.  Any such request should
be addressed to the Secretary of the Corporation at 1325 Airmotive Way, Suite
100, Reno, Nevada 89502-3239.

  The following abbreviations, when used in the Inscription on the face of this
certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full
according to applicable laws or regulations.

TEN COM - as tenants in common            
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entiretles               
JT TEN  - as joint tenants with right of             
          survivorship and not as tenants            
          in common                                                


                      UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - _____________Custodian ______________
                                               (Cust)               (Minor)
                                           under Uniform Gifts to Minors
                                           Act ________________________________
                                                           (State)

                      UNIF TRF MIN ACT -  _________ Custodian (until age _____)
                                            (Cust)
                                         ___________ under Uniform Transfers
                                           (Minor)
                                         to Minors Act _______________________
                                                               (State)
    Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list

FOR VALUE REVEIVED, ______________________hereby sell, assign and transfer unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER 
IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
______________________________________


           

___________________________________________________________________________________________________
              (PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE)
___________________________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________Shares
of the common stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint

_________________________________________________________________________________________________Attorney
to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated__________________________________

                                                      X________________________________________
                                                      X________________________________________
NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE(S) TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME(S) AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE 
CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

Signature(s) Guaranteed

By_________________________________
THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN 
ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO
SEC RULE 17AG-15.