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YouTuber Goes To Buy Hummer H1, Realizes It’s Fake: Video

YouTuber Westen Champlin is all about buying partially wrecked vehicles, slowly restoring them and bringing them back to life over time. He’s had his eye on buying a Hummer H1 for a while now, so when he got a call from his brother saying he had found a slightly damaged, inoperable 2000 Hummer H1 for sale at a salvage yard for cheap, he figured they had hit the jackpot.

Unfortunately for Champlin, he briefly forgot about the age-old adage: if it’s too good to be true, it probably is. Upon closer inspection of the Hummer H1, he realized that it wasn’t a real H1 – but rather a phony recreation of the iconic military vehicle built on a Ford platform, of all things.

The first thing that gave it away was the lack of independent front and rear suspension, but that’s far from the only major difference. This fake Hummer H1 also had a Ford V8 with Cobra valve covers sitting under the hood, fiberglass doors and a fairly shoddy looking interior with a Chevrolet steering column, Hummer steering wheel and aftermarket gauges.

Obviously, Champlin did not end up bidding on this fraud of a Hummer H1. He watched it go to auction, though, and said it fetched close to what he would expect a real, inoperable Hummer H1 to sell for. The H1 isn’t cheap, even at used auctions, so it seems someone got a fairly poor deal on this homebrew Hummer. On the bright side, this is a fairly convincing recreation of the iconic U.S. army truck, so whoever decided to plunk down some cash to buy it will at least have their friends and family fooled with their phony off-roader.

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  1. ???

    That thing looks NOTHING like an H1.

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  2. Probably bought by a wannabe military nut who couldn’t tell the difference between a tank and a helicopter. But plays the war games for hours pretending he’s a bad ass.

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  3. Probably an old movie prop

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  4. I call BS. The auction and seller would be fully disclosing what it is.

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    1. I beg to differ

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  5. It’s a Bummer.

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    1. As a person who buys from these auctions, while there is some level of scams going on they are not this kind. The stuff you see is were people make something look slightly better and resist them. The auction site will provide you with information like the vin and pictures and the listing information is based off the vin. So there’s no way this was real since the vin would not say it was a hummer

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  6. Total waist of 5 minutes of my time, would not have watched/skipped through it if I would have known it to be an “🤩 I me my!” non-dram-com turd show. With the ever so necessary porn reference. 🕚

    No proof of them buying it (no seller) or selling it (lawn mower distraction) for profit? Who’s to know if they were not the hack builders to start with?

    Back to my beer and tacos, I suggest kale and rice cakes for the stars of this show!

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  7. ^ “waist”? WTF man

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