/ Xeni Jardin / 12:04 pm Tue Mar 30, 2010

Horse-drawn Hummer

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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.

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  1. 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)

    1. 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)

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

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

        … or was that a rhetorical question?

  4. 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!

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

  8. 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.

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

  11. 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

  12. 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.

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

    Oh, wait…

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  20. 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.)

  22. 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.

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

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