Tourism Hummer

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Mark is right, the contractor was General Dynamics if I remeber correctly and the number was around 300 Humvees total in like 1998 or 99. They sat for a couple of years before the Marine Corps actually gave them up and they were stripped to the bone, no seats, tops, doors, mirrors, drained the fluids, some didn't run. I got into Hummers/Humvees when my buddy Al Boswell (manager of 4wheelparts in Atlanta) met the guy at http://www.xhumvee.com These guys had bought 150 or so of the 300 from the Marines for about 6-8K each!!! they were putting tops, seats, mirrors, etc and getting them running and selling them for 15-20K back in 2002. Now they have probably less than 30 of the original 150 they started with and they are restoring/modifying them and seeling for 40K and up.

AM General (once Jeep's heavy truck division maker of 2.5 and 5 tons) only ever sold about 10000 Hummer H1's to the public, but Humvees total is still less than 500. The Marine Humvee sale was the biggest, but there have been smaller numbers released since, just one or two every once in a while.