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Artist Jeremy Dean converted a Hummer H2 into a horse-drawn carriage "to show just how screwed and unsustainable the auto industry has become." Glen E. Friedman has more, including video.

  • Daemon

    Best use for a hummer yet.

  • braininavat

    Nice, but it needs spinning hub caps.

  • adamnvillani

    What is this, 9th grade? “Haw haw, flashy car, small penis!”

    Seeing somebody make comments like that tell me more about their insecurities than the Hummer driver’s. I mean, seriously, what do you know about the size of the guy’s schlong? Nothing.

    (And no, I don’t have a Hummer myself. I commute via subway and also own a VW Golf.)

  • Art

    I do love it, indeed!

    • IWood

      I don’t know you, but I know what I like.

      • Felton

        I don’t know you, but I know what I like.

        Hehehehe!

  • Chuck

    No. You’re only supposed to do that after civilization has plunged into a new dark age…

    Oh, wait…

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t they do this on an episode of “Viva La Bam?”

  • Mobius

    It is actually an H3 I think, not an H2. Not a fan of them by any means, and I stand open to correction, but it looks more like the baby hummer to me.

  • Anonymous

    To the point.I’m sure it very easy for those horses to pull if a pedicab driver can haul 500lbs!

    Human Powered Buick….now this is a real Muscle Car!
    http://urbanmobilityproject.blogspot.com/search?q=buick
    Urban Mobility Project

  • Brother Phil

    This is a great realisation of a thought I had a while back – “If the engine hadn’t been invented, what would carriages look like?”

    Now I know.

  • Anonymous

    Two horses for carriage is rather much, as hundred years ago a tram could be operated by only one horse; two, if the track included a lot of hills.

    So, even when run by horses, the Hummer still wastes energy.

  • Sam!

    Well nice way to save Gas.. Though I’m sure you would need to feed a whole barn to those horses..

  • Anonymous

    I hear what people are saying about the car body being lighter without the engine block and the transmission… But ‘lighter’ isn’t the same as ‘light’ and it’s being drawn by the heaviest drays I’ve seen in a long time.

    Seriously, those a *big* horses: nothing like the shires and Clydesdales that you see in these islands for show-carts and ploughing. The only draught animals I’ve seen like those horses are illustrations of the percheron…

    …Which, like the Hummer today, was a military transport – far too heavy and far too expensive to feed to be useful in farming and in commerce.

    If that’s what they are, there’s a fine double irony in this ingenious ‘re-engining’ of that Hummer.

  • eAi

    But would it have been practical to make a hummer without engines – to make the components?

  • djools

    Ironic and brilliant

  • Terry

    But it’s still a Hummer. A team of horses can only pull it 5 miles before they die and have to be replaced.

  • absimiliard

    Well, well, well.

    Mr. Dean may have just discovered the only civilian use for a hummer that I approve of.

    -abs is generally of the opinion that if you’re not mounting a government-owned weapon on a government-issued hummer for use on duty you should STFU and get a vehicle that says less about your penis-size (and if you are, your unit needs better support, hummers should be obsolete by now)

    • bassplayinben

      Why is it that anytime someone mentions privately-owned Hummers, someone else immediately reveals their obsession with the size of the penile protuberances of other men?

      (not a Hummer owner)

      • ImprovidentLackWit

        I believe there is market research to back that claim. Ya gotta know your customers!

      • joeposts

        Because guys with small dicks buy large, flashy vehicles to compensate for their perceived inadequacy?

        … or was that a rhetorical question?

  • Tomato Salad

    Primus’ horse-drawn carriage from the movie Stardust was also based on a hummer.

  • Pattanaik

    Kool. Its kinda nice when you are retired and you go to your local market with this horse driven car. I can suggest this to my dad. But for me.. no way.

  • Anonymous

    say what you want, but it was still a sale of a hummer.

    if you want to destroy a 75k+$ vehicle after you buy it, go right ahead.

    if more ‘artists’ did this, GM may still have been able to make them.

    (besides, the only good hmmv’s were the originals, before GM turned them into blocky car/trucks…)

    -TJ

  • aacmckay

    We had these in Canada during the depression. Called them Bennett Buggies after our then Prime Minister Richard Bennett.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_buggy

  • ausPPC

    Cool! But there goes the notion that I’d never want to be seen in a hummer.

  • wooden_shoes

    I saw this guys stuff at the Pulse Art show in NYC this year. I thought for certain the Hummers would be too heavy for horses to pull!

    • Keith

      Most of the weight is in the engine bloc, which has been removed. So it’s just an alloy frame with the internal hardware, most of which is upholstery and plastic. A couple of humans could probably pull it, at least on a flat surface.

    • aacmckay

      I’m sure they’re stripped down for weight. But I also don’t think it’d be too much trouble for a couple of draught horses to pull. As long as they weren’t going up and down too many hills.

  • adamnvillani

    Of course, Hummers are going bye-bye anyway, so GM beat this guy to the punch.

  • DJBudSonic

    Beautiful – best Hummer conversion I have seen.

    The funniest I have ever seen was the super-stretch Hummer limo doing a 60-point turn in NYC’s Little Italy, blocking traffic in all directions, while the Jersey prom party inside freaked out with embarrassment and screamed at the driver.