John Honnibal found something a bit out of the ordinary sitting at the curb in Hartcliffe, Bristol, England. It’s a homebuilt Humvee, obviously. And not surprisingly, it appears to be VW based. Or has someone made a Humvee kit for for a VW? Just about everything else has been made into one to fit a VW chassis.
The signage on the windshield caught my eye; if you’ve ever learned Transcendental Meditation™, it’ll be familiar. Well, for that matter, if you’ve ever heard “Across The Universe” by the Beatles, then you’ll also recognize it, since that song was written by John Lennon during their fling with TM. Let’s get back to meditating on the Humvee.
If it is VW based, one could see it as an update on the WW2 VW Kübelwagen, fully enclosed and armored. Of course, if it were real armor plate, the VW chassis would have been terribly overloaded, especially as the Kübelwagen had all of 25 hp.
The VW logo on the back tends to reinforce the premise of its underpinnings. Humvee…that sounds like it would make a good mantra. I’ll have to give it a go….humvee……humvee………..humvee……………..om.
A good name for it would be…HumVW.
Or OmVW.
I remember a kit that was available for the VW way back when. This one looks home made to me. Not for me but YMMV.
Ummmm … an amusing creation! I suspect that this homebuilt almost as much interior space as an actual Humvee, since the Humvee has the Mother of All Transmission Tunnels dividing the interior in half, a consequence of making the ground clearance as high as possible for cross-country mobility and the vehicle’s profile as low as possible to make it a smaller target. It would be fun to see a side by side comparison of this vehicle with the military original.
Yes. The center console in the Humvee is almost as big as that of a 2014 Ford Taurus Limited! 🙂
just what I never wanted
The way the VW emblem on the back is slightly askew fits the character of this vehicle well.
How does he back up? Or keep the engine cool? I don’t see any ventilation slots…
My first thought? Pow, pow, Power Wheels!
Is it fiberglass or plywood? Should burn well either way.
Humvee kits are available to fit Nissan Patrols so this is no surprise what ever you want to fake it fits on a VW floorpan.
It’s got to be something to hear a Beetle engine coming and seeing this. Talk about some cognitive dissonance! That, of course, if this actually has a Beetle engine.
Like most Kit Cars this is weird and wonderful too ~ I’d not want it but it’s nice to see different things out & about .
Variety is the spice of life ! .
(just don’t let your wife find out)
-Nate
In the 70’s, Tune Masters would put little “TM” stickers on the windows of customers’ cars. Some people thought the cars’ owners were into Transcendental Meditation.
Tune Masters later became Tuneup Masters. I guess people were confused by more than their stickers.