These Hummers came in different versions and colours, this one has fixed doors, boot and bonnet, and no interior detail. Others were fully openable and far more detailed, and were about the right size for an Action Man figure. There was also a pick-up version. For my purposes this particular variety is ideal as it has a much cleaner bottom, if you'll pardon the expression, meaning it'll be that much easier to modify to take the Gmade axles, wheels and tyres.
There's not much wrong with this one, other than the fact that the transmitter doesn't work. The windscreen has popped inwards in one place, though I'm sure this is fixable. It's got a bent axle and the door mirrors are missing, other than that it appears not to have had too hard a life.
I'm going to add a few YouTube videos of these things below, just to give you a flavour of what they are all about.
This first one is of one of the detailed ones. They all have a switchable high/low gear ratio on the rear (only) 2 wheel-drive-with-differential gearbox, this one is running in low ratio. Not too fast, but don't you just love the sounds it makes!! You can rest assured that I shall be promptly removing this feature from mine as soon as is humanly possible!
This next one shows the stunning off-road capabilities (or not as the case may be!) of a New Bright Hummer, an H3 in this case in high gear. If you start getting bored just fast forward to the last 25 seconds or so...
This last video points in the direction of where I want to go - a decently modded H2. The owner of this truck, only known as vsci79, has fitted Clodbuster axles and 17-turn motors which have transformed the truck's performance. I think it is fairly obvious why I prefer the fixed-door version!
The owner has posted details and photos of the conversion of his truck here, I'll write some more about this work in my next post.
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