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Now we know why the Chinese government discouraged Tenzhong from buying Hummer: Waste of money. Chinese can build Hummers themselves. For $650. The man in the picture is living proof.
Carnewschina has it that Qu Zhibo from Zhigong on the Chinese island of Hainan built his own Hummer. Maybe not as big as a real Hummer, but starting small and thinking big is the Chinese way. Says Carnewschina:
“Instead he built his Hummer himself, completely from scrap, with a small tractor engine that drives the rear wheels. Qu’s Hummer is 2 meters long and 1.5 meters high. The building process took three long years and 4000 yuan, that is 630 US dollar. Lotta time and a lotta money, but Qu got it.”
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and likely more reliable than what GM built….
Har, har, har!
not even close,
it has duallie all around, must corner real well.
all he need is a 1500lbs atv winch and he can go places with the mountain goats.
Do it yourself hummer? Maybe if you’re flexible enough, and have a loose definition of what constitutes a hummer.
It really looks more Jeepish than Hummerish.
He looks very sad driving it.
He is just bummed out because he ran out of money before he could get it gold plated.
I thought he looked sad too. Can’t see how anybody unless they were a kid, or the first person in a remote village to have wheels, or some kind of billionaire playing against type could be proud to be seen cruising around in this.
…with a small tractor engine that drives the rear wheels.
It’s probably comparable to driving an H3 with the Vortec 3500 then.
I for one am constantly astounded by all the Chinese people who manage to do stuff like this. Many of them with no schooling, and little to no money. I’m betting this guy is lucky if he makes $8,000 USD a year.
And yet with all that against him, he manages to do something interesting.
As for looking sad, I’m betting the photo was staged and he was trying to look serious. More likely day in and day out, he’s grinning from ear to ear.
There is a lot of creativity in China, but fortunately or unfortunately, it’s the uneducated and school drop outs who are showing most of it.
The education system here is great for creating trained parrots, ie. repeat information ad nausea, but problem solving skills are pretty lacking. This guy had to figure out quite a bit of basic mechanics to get this thing to work.
I’m just amazed that he accomplished this and more power to him. Hopefully he’ll do another project and take what he’s learned from this and maybe make it look better.
I bet you won’t see this hummer at one of those fancy-car show-off chinese weddings!
The sad thing is, this is probably the more capable vehicle off-road compared to the the H2 or H3
Well, if he wants to go off-road, he’ll have to increase the clearance. Bigger wheels ought to do it, and I notice he left plenty of room under the fenders to do just that. The low profile wheels he’s got now were probably meant to test the vehicle in the twisties. A strong pulling tractor engine is also ideal, since it’s off-road where the old saying “talk horsepower but drive torque” really comes into play.
I’m not sure I’d call the Chinese tractor motors strong. Think more like slightly larger riding lawnmower engines and you get the idea.
Built in the 1940’s
Funny,
and then some people are afraid of Chinese.
btw, is it a hybrid?
Build quality appears to be about the same.