On the road one minute, on makeshift steel-wheel junkyard jack stands the next.
It turned up on Craigslist quite a while ago in California, for the ultra-low price of five hundred bucks, US funds, of course. It ran, it drove, it passed smog, and it maybe needed a neutral safety switch according to the ad, leading me to believe it didn't always start when you might want it to. Having had that problem myself, I must say that it's quite inconvenient, somewhat hard to diagnose and can be hard to fix depending on where said switch is located. It's painted in a lovely shade of desert beige, and by painted, I mean everything. The tow mirrors, the wheels, most of the rear tires, some lights, some glass, generally everything that you might accidentally get paint on when you don't intentionally tape it off to avoid the whole overspray thing. Under the hood, I'm assuming it's stock, and inside it's also stock, but the ad said, "She's rough, I removed carpet on passenger side and rear. Not watertight." I love that last part, as I've owned a lot of vehicles, but can't tell you how many of them were watertight. Some leaked around the glass or the doors, but I'm guessing this one leaked when crossing some sort of flooded terrain it shouldn't have been in, and as a result, the carpet had to be removed. Still, what's a potential customer going to do? Where might one find another 1987 Toyota Camry Hummer for comparison?
What a glorious title. The seller could have called it a Jeep, or a Landcruiser or something, but they went right to the heavyweight champion class with Hummer. Apparently, the windshield is from a 1967 Jeep, and it utilizes the factory Jeep overhead wiper assembly. Well, half of it anyway, as according to the ad, only one side works, and it doesn't specify which side. The top appears to be a mixture of canvas, corrugated metal, plywood, and some sort of up-cycled rack. Also, I think it's just kind of glued and screwed on, and it definitely disables the rear doors. For five hundred bucks in a state where everything is seemingly expensive, you'd think a rolling piece of automotive hilarity that actually passes smog would be an easy sell. That's not the case apparently, as it was recently spotted at an auto wrecker, mostly complete, but minus the rear wheels and paint-covered tires. That may not be the customer the seller had in mind, but it was the customer that the seller got. It's a sad end for sure, but, hopefully, it was due to that neutral switch problem. Perhaps it was a slightly more significant problem than that, but I can't say for sure.
