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The Hummer H1. The deeply impractical all-American poster boy for climate change deniers. It"s also a car with bona fide iconic status. Never has a four-wheeled lump represented so much but offered so little. Doesn"t mean it isn"t cool. And H1s are only getting cooler, mainly because they"re now being restomodded. You have Detroit-based company Mil-Spec Automotive to thank for this murdered out special. We"ve featured them before. Remember the 500bhp, $295k tactical"? That zombie-proof monster was the sixth special Hummer from the firm, this is the seventh: Black Ops. As you can see, this four-door Hummer has had the back end sawn off to make a pick-up truck then a gothic colour pallet applied. Black is the hue of the day. Black wheels. Black paint. Black interior. And fuel from the black pump. Like the previous versions, it"s powered by a 6.6-litre Duramax diesel from the 2006 Hummer, but rebuilt and reassembled to kick out 500bhp and 1,000lb ft of torque, more than a regular 1996 Hummer would have produced. Good thing Mil-Spec binned the factory full-time four-wheel-drive system and replaced it with a simpler NVG 242 transfer case normally found in various GM pickup trucks.
Date written: 5 Aug 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16503
The Hummer H1. The deeply impractical all-American poster boy for climate change deniers. It"s also a car with bona fide iconic status. Never has a four-wheeled lump represented so much but offered so little. Doesn"t mean it isn"t cool. And H1s are only getting cooler, mainly because they"re now being restomodded. You have Detroit-based company Mil-Spec Automotive to thank for this murdered out special. We"ve featured them before. Remember the 500bhp, $295k tactical"? That zombie-proof monster was the sixth special Hummer from the firm, this is the seventh: Black Ops. As you can see, this four-door Hummer has had the back end sawn off to make a pick-up truck then a gothic colour pallet applied. Black is the hue of the day. Black wheels. Black paint. Black interior. And fuel from the black pump. Like the previous versions, it"s powered by a 6.6-litre Duramax diesel from the 2006 Hummer, but rebuilt and reassembled to kick out 500bhp and 1,000lb ft of torque, more than a regular 1996 Hummer would have produced. Good thing Mil-Spec binned the factory full-time four-wheel-drive system and replaced it with a simpler NVG 242 transfer case normally found in various GM pickup trucks.
Date written: 5 Aug 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16503
