How to build your own Hummer H1

**El Chupacabra** · 10-01-2007, 10:32 AM

Guy is building his own Humvee in his garage -- basing it on a Ford truck chassis, he has fabricated all the sheetmetal by hand.

Amazing skills.

http://fullsizebronco.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25748

**Adolf Allerbush** · 10-01-2007, 10:43 AM

Pretty amazing skillz....but doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of having a hummer? I mean, basically you'd have a shitty old ford F150 with a Hummer like shell. It would perform like a F150 offroad.

**Beaver** · 10-01-2007, 10:45 AM

Amazing waste of time and money if you axe me.

**warthog** · 10-01-2007, 10:51 AM

You can buy an Army Humvee at auction for less than $7,000 usually. New paint, nice interior parts, tune up the engine- voila.

Yeah, that was a waste of time.

**flatNshallow** · 10-01-2007, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Beaver

Amazing waste of time and money if you axe me.

Yep, especially when you can pick up a T-REX kit for cheap.

**phUnk** · 10-01-2007, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by Adolf Allerbush

Pretty amazing skillz....but doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of having a hummer? I mean, basically you'd have a shitty old ford F150 with a Hummer like shell. It would perform like a F150 offroad.

Humvee == Original military vehicle

Hummer == Chevy Tahoe frame with Humvee-ish bodywork

N'est pas?

**ArmadaBC** · 10-01-2007, 11:54 AM

Incredable metal work that had to take hundreds of hours

**El Chupacabra** · 10-01-2007, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by phUnk

Humvee == Original military vehicle

Hummer == Chevy Tahoe frame with Humvee-ish bodywork

N'est pas?

Humvee = original military vehicle. Civilian version introduced in the 1990s was called the "Hummer." H1 label was added after introduction of Hummer H2.

Hummer H2 = Chevy Tahoe drivetrain with H1-ish body.

Hummer H3 = Chevy Colorado drivetrain. IMHO, proportions look better on the H3 than on the H2, and the interior is quite a bit nicer.