From: hls on

"fred" <fred(a)bedrock.rock> wrote in message
> Thank you Arnold for making a car you can't park anywhere drive
> anywhere except on roads for people to drive everywhere gobbling
> up gas everyone else could have used.
>
> Don't get me wrong, the Hummer 1 was quite probably the best off
> road vehicle in the world, but it was being sold in one of the most
> populus countries on earth. If it was needed anywhere it would not
> be a place with more cars and roads than any other country on earth.
>
> I'm not going to comment on the later versions.

Anyone can Google the H2 and H3 versions. H1 was essentially the
military version, if I understand correctly.

These are cars that were appealing to some people while the economy
was riding high. IMO, they are the modern day Edsels.

I admire success, and hope someone can pull success from the jaws
of defeat in this case. Things live if they need to live. ???
From: Scott Dorsey on
hls <hls(a)nospam.nix> wrote:
>
>Anyone can Google the H2 and H3 versions. H1 was essentially the
>military version, if I understand correctly.

H1 had the military frame and drive train, but it was lighter in a few
ways and it was SUPER comfortable compared with the military version,
with features like air conditioning and some fibreglass insulation
around the transmission case. On the military version in hot weather
you can burn your right calf on the transmission case.

A good friend of mine is a broadcast engineer and he has an early-seventies
International which he takes out to remote transmitter sites. He's
precisely the sort of person that the H1 would have been perfect for, if
had cost a little bit less and didn't have quite so many mandatory options.

>These are cars that were appealing to some people while the economy
>was riding high. IMO, they are the modern day Edsels.

I dunno, the Edsel seemed like a much nicer car to me.

>I admire success, and hope someone can pull success from the jaws
>of defeat in this case. Things live if they need to live. ???

The H2 and H3 had no reason to ever live. The H1 deserved to live, but
GM killed it.
--scott

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