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00:00Hi everybody, Jeff Dunham and Walter. It's a beautiful day at Dunham Family Motors.
00:04I think it's so-so. Do you have something sad and tired sitting in your driveway?
00:08Yeah, my idiot son-in-law. Most vehicles are designed to get you from point A to point B.
00:13This vehicle was designed with a mission to be the ultimate light tactical
00:19military vehicle. It just looks wild. It did its job so well somebody said hey
00:25let's add cup holders, air conditioning, and a stereo because nothing says daily
00:29driver like full combat readiness. This is the story of two vehicles with the same
00:34DNA, twins. But when they came down the production line, one got shipped off to
00:39war while the other got all the cushy stuff. How about this? Look at the
00:43behemoth in our collection here. The 2600 alpha zero down. Yeah, and it's extra
00:49clean. You know what that means? Yeah, we finally washed one, no. Throughout time
00:56humanity has been obsessed with getting places using anything but their own two
01:00feet. We've tried all kinds of things. Until finally, the greatest invention of all time.
01:08The automobile.
01:10Moron!
01:12These are the cars that drove us.
01:16In the history of the U.S. military, only two vehicles have marched from the battlefield to the
01:22driveway. The Jeep and the Humvee. They really capture the imagination of the American people.
01:29As it turns out, we needed one to pave the way for the other. The Humvee was kind of the
01:34new Jeep,
01:35except upgraded. You know, bigger, stronger. But to understand how we ended up lucky enough to squeeze a
01:41military machine into a two-car garage, we have to go all the way back to 1939. As the threat
01:48of
01:48impending conflict approached. There was a realization from our army that they needed a
01:54vehicle that was capable of operating in the off-road environment. And so the U.S. Army put out a
02:00call.
02:01U.S. automakers American Bantam. Yes, sir.
02:04Willys. Affirmative. And Ford. Right away. Answered. They came out with the GPW. The pronunciation of it,
02:11would eventually morph into Jeep. Jeeps were deployed to every corner of the globe,
02:18ready to spring into action.
02:22The American Jeep was absolutely revolutionary. The Jeep became famous during the Second and after the
02:28Second World War. The Jeep symbolized victory, and soon the symbol of grit and determination
02:35became an image of pop culture from movies and television... It packs an awful wallop!
02:40...to comics and toys. A recoilless rifle that really shoots. But before long,
02:46playtime was over, and the Jeep returned to combat. In the jungles of Vietnam, with all of the rivers,
02:52with the swamps, it had limitations.
03:01They needed something better. And so it was determined that success could be achieved by
03:06harnessing the mighty military power of... a checklist. The military went out to a variety of
03:12manufacturers and said, here are the specs we want. Something that can climb at a certain angle,
03:16certain level of ground clearance, carry a certain payload, to go a certain speed. All these specs.
03:21And like they'd done with the Jeep, in February of 79, the Army put out a call to companies who
03:26were willing to take on this extensive checklist. Teledyne, Chrysler Defense, and AM General would
03:32pit their prototypes against each other at... The Army's Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
03:36But one company had a small disadvantage. We weren't a huge organization. We were not a General
03:41Motors. But what they did have was... A real energized, hard-working core team. The sole focus
03:49of AM General Engineering was the Humvee. We were looking at it as a must-win contract. No pressure.
03:58Now, about that checklist. The Humvee specification required
04:03low-altitude parachute extraction. I'm gonna need you to explain.
04:08A military cargo plane would open up their cargo door, deploy a chute, and drop it on the ground
04:16from like 20 feet going 100 miles an hour. So, how'd you do? We broke our frames. We actually...
04:25We had to strengthen the chassis of the Humvee to be able to withstand that. Check one. But the chassis
04:33didn't just need to survive being shoved out of an airplane. It also had to politely endure the
04:38constant pounding from mounted weapons systems. That strength of the chassis went up and held
04:44a weapons ring so that they could operate a machine gun 360 degrees, a tow missile, or other weapons.
04:53We've actually mounted a 105 howitzer on a Humvee. Check two.
05:01The government specification required 16 inches of ground clearance. 16 inches? So, how'd they do it?
05:10We took a seating position of a soldier and put his feet right at the bottom of the frame rail.
05:18So,
05:18that means the tunnel comes up considerably high, about hip height. That's because that's where the
05:23drivetrain goes through, which gives it this unique additional clearance. Check. And you combine that with
05:29the wheel hub. It gives the Humvee tremendous off-road capability. The vehicle has to be able to
05:36enter five feet of salt water. As if that weren't enough, it also had to be shut off underwater.
05:43Sit there for an entire hour, then restart. And drive out without having any detrimental effect on the
05:53vehicle. Wait, does General Motors make an engine that can go fully underwater?
05:58We had to add a snorkel to the engine so that it could breathe. Check, check, check.
06:05After years of development, countless tweaks, and more than a few chassis later,
06:10the three prototypes rolled into Aberdeen Proving Grounds to go head-to-head in testing.
06:16The year was 1982. Olivia Newton-John was single-handedly making the FCC sweat with her cheeky double entendres.
06:24Let's get physical, physical. And testing of the top three prototypes of the U.S. military's
06:30newest high-mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle was about to begin. While AM General was busy cracking
06:37chassis and flooding engines, Chrysler Defense and Teledyne were hard at work on their prototypes as well.
06:43Teledyne Continental, they were basing their prototype off of that Lamborghini Cheetah design.
06:49Wow! While Chrysler Defense's design was based on their existing expanded mobility truck. The Army took
06:55those prototypes to Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. The test and evaluation commands most
07:00comprehensive facility. The vehicles were put through over 600,000 miles of abuse in every miserable
07:07condition imaginable. Just 24 hours a day through all kinds of terrain and various environments. With each
07:14team nobly battling it out. Competing for a billion-dollar-plus contract to provide the
07:20Humvee for the Army, Marines, and Air Force. Ultimately, one was chosen. And that was the one
07:26that was designed by AM General. It was the ultimate military vehicle. Selected for production by the U.S.
07:33Armed Forces in March of 1983. When we won the contract, it was like, wow, we actually had a party.
07:41And rumor has it, AM General partied into the PM that night. Because Dave and the gang now had over
07:49a billion reasons to party. It was one of the largest defense contracts ever. This was kind of
07:54the beginning of the Hummer phenomenon. The work became, oh my god, now we gotta do this. When AM
08:02General began cranking out its battle wagon for the military, it answered to two names. Hummer or Humvee.
08:09Ultimately, Humvee became the name that stuck, standard issue, and mission ready. And the Humvee's
08:15mission? Do everything. We created over 15 different variants. The Humvee was a huge step
08:21forward from the Jeep. It's more powerful. It's got greater ground clearance. It could go through 60
08:27inches of water. It could go up a grade of 60%. The Humvee absolutely took it to the next level.
08:32For the next decade, the Humvee would exist exclusively during peace times, but that would all change
08:39on December 20th of 1989. And for the first time, the Humvee was heading into combat.
08:46When we invaded Panama to get rid of Emmanuel Noriega. Drug agents arrested him on the spot.
08:51The Humvee, it performed exactly how they had hoped it would, whether it was in an urban
08:57environment or in a jungle environment. It became the second Jeep, so to speak, except upgraded. You
09:03know, bigger, stronger and everything. Let's hope so, because its next task was a doozy.
09:10The car all of a sudden became really world famous because of the Iraqi war.
09:18This was a war that was being televised in the United States. You could see these
09:23Humvees going across the desert. Big machine guns on top and on the left and on the right.
09:29You know, armored windows, armored this, armored that. Soon, the course of the Humvee's fate would
09:34be forever changed. Not on the battlefields of Iraq, but rather in the executive conference room.
09:40He had a fella from marketing came in and said, we just got a phone call from a celebrity.
09:49By 1990, the Humvee was a critical part of the armed services operations. It could be seen
09:55transporting service members down the streets of many American cities from Maine to Oregon,
10:00specifically Astoria, Oregon. Welcome to Astoria. Astoria had become a popular filming location.
10:06And on one fateful day. This is your new kindergarten teacher. Those two worlds collided.
10:14So we were filming Kindergarten Cop and we were driving on the freeway to get to the location.
10:20It was early in the morning. And then all of a sudden I looked over to the other side
10:23and there I saw a bunch of Humvees. It was like a lot of them. One after the next coming.
10:30And I looked at that and I said, this cars look so cool. I mean, it was unbelievable.
10:36The Austrian in Astoria was in awe. Hey, snap out of it.
10:41And he immediately fell in love with it and then contacted AM General directly.
10:45I was so impressed by the cars. I got to look into if those cars are available.
10:50But there was one small hitch. It's not legal.
10:53But they said, no, you cannot really own one. Because for that, we would need permission from
10:57the Pentagon and from the list was all going on and on and on.
11:00Apparently, civilians can't just buy military equipment.
11:04He can't drive it on the road. It's illegal.
11:06But Schwarzenegger was never one to shy away from aggressive negotiations.
11:12And so...
11:13I was the chairman of the president's council of physical fitness. I said, you know,
11:17I know Dick Cheney. I know Colin Powell. Let me just get into it.
11:21And I got the permission. They felt kind of like there's no secret military stuff there
11:27that we should be concerned about. So I basically bought one.
11:32The Pentagon may have rubber stamped the sale,
11:34but that doesn't mean the Department of Transportation would let the rubber hit the road.
11:39Of course, it wasn't street legal.
11:41We had to build the vehicle for him to meet better motor vehicle safety standards.
11:46It was a completely new electrical system, all new lighting, all new sensors,
11:50that are adding ABS.
11:52You need to have the interior done in a padded way because if you have an accident,
11:56you hurt yourself. So it's safe. So it is legal.
12:00We had to develop doors because the Humvee doors were cloth and there's a requirement for side impact.
12:07What I like about the Humvee is you don't have to do a thing about building it up and making
12:14it ballsier,
12:15because it has the biggest wheels on it. It has the interior that's tough. It has the windshield wipers
12:21that are tough. Everything is rugged about this car. The military version is very stark inside.
12:28Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't want it stark inside. He wants a nice car. So they made it a little bit
12:33nicer inside, a little bit more usable, including putting an air conditioning in there, which was
12:38not in there, and the heater and stuff like that. Of course, it needs power windows and powered door
12:42locks and heated seats, a whole new interior. I then took it back to Humvee, the AM General,
12:49and I said, now here's what the civilian Humvee could look like. So it is street legal. So it became
12:55kind of like a concept car. One day at work, our CEO comes on and said, one year from today,
13:03we're going into production on a commercial Hummer. It's going to be available to the public.
13:10The plan was for AM General to make the military Humvee, as well as the civilian H1 Hummer.
13:16I will regularly visit the factory, test drive the various trucks that they built. He will bring them
13:23to Aspen. I would drive them without snow chains. Up the mountains, there was deep snow, and it just
13:29climbed up to the top of that mountain. On the shoulders of the collaboration with AM General
13:35and Arnold... They made a few changes, then they built the first Hummer. And I got not only the first
13:42Hummer, the concept car, but they also now built the first Hummer of their assembly line. All the
13:49workers were there, and they gave me the key to the Hummer. It was a day of celebration. Everyone was
13:55very happy, and I was very happy. And so what do you call the first civilian Humvee built specifically
14:03for the biggest action star in the world? Oh, he's the Terminator, the tough guy, and this is a tough
14:09vehicle.
14:13It was love at first drive, and Arnold wanted to share that feeling with the world. He helped convince
14:18AM General that millions of people will buy a real off-road car. The biggest movie star in the world
14:24had just launched a free ad campaign. I would use this car to drive up to a movie premiere, and
14:30then
14:30all of a sudden people saw this car, and paparazzis would be photographing it, and all of a sudden the
14:35picture was out there in the media. Oh, and speaking of ad campaigns...
14:40When you've got a real thirst, nothing can keep you from the ice-cold citrus taste of Mellow Yellow.
14:45Mellow Yellow bought 10 vehicles, and that was the first vehicles we ever built commercially,
14:52and they were rough. Me and the Hummer took a little shortcut. When I first heard that AM General was
14:57planning a civilian Hummer, my thought about it was it was ridiculous. Until I actually saw it.
15:05The H1 very much looked like the military version. A wolf in a field of sheep. And it very much
15:11operated like the military version. Climb the steepest hills and conquer the toughest terrain.
15:16The Hummer is a military truck. You can get out of any situation with the Hummer in the desert or
15:22in
15:22the snow. Especially with unique features like the central tire inflation system. You have
15:27automatically inflating or deflating of the tires from inside. They have more grip to get out of any kind
15:34of a situation. Go through 30 inches of water. Blast in snow. Just like with the big deltoids,
15:41with the calves, the abs sticking out and all of this stuff. And it just, you turn on the engine.
15:47You know, it was ballsy sounding. It was just perfect. Thanks to Arnold's backing, the H1 had no
15:54problem drawing attention. Just not the kind that ends in a sale, which left AM General's marketing
16:00team asking the question. Who is the H1 Hummer customer? A Hummer is not for everyone.
16:07In one word, rich people. Okay, two words. Add options and the price climbs to an eye-popping
16:13$91,218. Which adjusts to $176,000 today. But even if you were sold on the price, good luck finding
16:22one at your local dealership. In fact, there were only two ways to buy a Hummer. Fly to South Bend,
16:28Indiana and take their driving course. Or order one from the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog and fly to
16:34South Bend, Indiana and take their driving course. Either way, two Hummers made the perfect his and
16:39her holiday gifts. And it was successful enough. I mean, at the end, they didn't sell, you know,
16:44a million of these cars. It was what you really want. To do that, the Hummer needed to court a
16:48new
16:48customer. And in 1998, that slightly tamed beast took center stage at the Detroit Auto Show. The buzz
16:56was loud enough to reach the ears of a high-ranking executive who made a phone call.
17:01I got a call from Jack Smith, who was the CEO of GM at that time. And he says,
17:05Mike, you've been to the Detroit Auto Show and seen the reaction to the Hummer? And I go,
17:10yeah, I have. It's pretty amazing, Jack. I think there's something to this brand.
17:13We came up with this idea that we wanted to buy the brand from AM General. General Motors was all
17:18in
17:19on the Hummer. We would design and provide all the parts and engineering. And in return,
17:24we would pay AM General a manufacturing fee. General Motors came out with the age two.
17:30The Hummer was going to be a daddy.
17:35Make it smaller, more user-friendly, with a nice interior, but authentic Hummer,
17:40and we could sell a lot of them. As for the man who had already sold lots of Hummers,
17:44Arnold agreed to make about six appearances for Hummer to launch the H2.
17:48Good to see you.
17:49It became just a huge hit.
17:52I like very much to buy these Hummers.
17:55And with the H2 hogging the spotlight, it was time for the civilian H1 to take a bow.
18:02They thought, if this car is going to come to an end, let's go out with a blaze of glory.
18:06They decided to come up with something called the Hummer Alpha.
18:11They put in the bigger 6.6 liter Duramax engine, stronger transmission. It was just bigger and badder.
18:17The beginning of the end and the last of its kind. The H2 is now all alone in the product
18:23line,
18:24which didn't sit right with Mike.
18:26I sold GM on the idea that we had to do an H3.
18:29And then, someone sold someone on the H3 marketing campaign, where a robot impregnates a monster.
18:37Genius.
18:37Well, be it Mike or the robot, the H3 was conceived, and then in 2006, was delivered right on time.
18:46The H3 was an even smaller version.
18:51With H1, H2, and H3, we got a franchise.
18:54A franchise that would prove short-lived, undone by a sudden spike in gas prices,
18:59and the minor inconvenience of a global financial meltdown.
19:02And eventually, General Motors just decided to sunset it.
19:05The sun didn't rise again for the Hummer brand until 2021, when...
19:12It's been resurrected. New, all-electric Humvee.
19:16Who would have thought?
19:17With electric Hummer, it was fantastic.
19:19Because before H1 Hummer birthed the H2, H3, or the EV,
19:26the Hummer sprang forth from the military might of the United States Army's most trusted workhorse.
19:33It could do things like no other vehicle.
19:35And there's still nothing better than the Humvee when it comes to the light tactical vehicle for military requirement.
19:41It was, like, absolutely phenomenal.
19:44But the Humvee had another role, to inspire millions of Americans.
19:49I love this thing for all the right reasons.
19:52Rugged, battle-proven, versatile, mission-ready, and reliable.
19:57Just like the proud men and women who've served our country while driving it.
20:02Let's see what's up here.
20:08Right there.
20:09That's how you do it.
20:13Wow.
20:14So, thank you, Hummer, for the adventure.
20:20Thank you, Humvee, for your service.
20:24And, God bless the USA.
20:27Oh, and I almost forgot.
20:29Thanks, Arnold.
20:31Let's have some fun now.
20:39I kill you!
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