Rusty Hummer Evolution 2

Rusty Hummer by Kevin Jones at Realty Professionals  805-473-0300   After our 2001 Ocean Blue Wagon was deemed totaled, and believe me I did everything I could to save it, knowing what I know today, I could have and should have bought it back from the insurance.  Hind sight is always 20-20.  We were at my wife’s cousins wedding reception about a month later and my cell phone rang, it was a guy that had a 1994 four door hard top listed for sale and I excused myself from the reception and negotiated the deal to be picked up the following weekend.  This truck was located just outside Salt Lake City Utah, so another road trip was in order!  This truck had a Whipple SuperCharger on the 6.5L Diesel engine, which later proved to be amazing power but not very good on mileage for a daily driver for a Real Estate agent!

Did a lot of clean up and additions to the 1994, being in Salt Lake City it acquired a lot of  corrosion, virtually every connector on the truck had to be completely cleaned or replaced on the truck.  Preparing for a Rubicon trip I rented a shop and a Hummer mechanic and I went through the entire suspension in a week, replacing virtually all the components that moved!  Ball joints, tie rods, tie rod ends, pitman arm, idler arms, etc., changed all the fluids, glad I did the geared hubs had some pretty funky gunk in them!  We did a fair amount of wheeling in this truck and it was a great runner, it was just not the most efficient on fuel with that Whipple Supercharger.  It was amazingly fast, almost scary fast for that large of a vehicle!  

Sold the 1994 about a year later and found a 1992 Limited Edition Wagon “Nikki’s Nemesis” I think it was number 167 if I remember correctly.  They were numbered and named by their first owner with a placard on the interior.  This was a 6.2L with the 3 speed transmission (3L80) so the freeway speeds were 60 mph tops!  We added a Predator Roof Rack, tire carrier and 2001 rims to the rig, CB and a few other minor additions to make this rig look great.  The previous owner had painted the truck from the original tan to a Charcoal or Gun Metal gray which looked nice but was not a great paint job.

The 1992 found its home in Florida and shipped it off and shortly after found my current truck, a 1994 Open Top.  The 1994 and 1995′s were amazing because 1994 was the first year of the 6.5L NA (Normally aspirated – Non Turbo) with the 4 speed (4L80) and everything was still mechanical all the way down to no anti-lock brakes!  The only computer is for the transmission so that makes for a nice truck that will have the least amount of problems electronically!  This 1994 was living the life in Arizona as a Tour truck in Scottsdale with Desert Storm Hummer Tours as an 11 seat tour truck.

After moving to Pismo Beach the truck was stolen, taken out in the dunes and wrecked!  I was without the truck for almost 6 months while Tustin Hummer and the insurance battled it out.  Allstate insurance was great, but it was a lengthy process as they were not used to this type of vehicle and don’t get much claims on them.  There was about $12,000 worth of damage and we got all the mechanical repairs done so that I could pick the vehicle up.  Due to the length of time gone I opted not to get it painted partly because I wanted to change the Red to Ocean Blue and that would have been another month without the truck.

In 2013 I had the Hummer painted a very off the wall and unique color, rust!  It is perfect living here at the beach, people know it as the “Rusty Hummer”.  We use the truck as a daily driver for our Real Estate company “Realty Professionals” located at 775 West Grand Ave in Grover Beach, Ca. where we handle Residential, Income and Commercial properties both sales and leases.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recently we purchased a Wagon top for the Hummer that will eventually be mounted so that it can easily be removed so that the truck can maintain its Open Top status quickly for those amazing days here on the Central Coast!

We are asked to be in Parades and help out in many different charity events are glad to do so!  Here is an appearance at the Arroyo Grande Harvest Parade in 2014.

Long and hard task of finding 4 X doors from the HMMWV of Humvee finally arrived!  These are composite doors, our soldiers were sent over seas to fight with these, might as well of sent them in a Corvette!  Great thing for this truck is the doors are much lighter than steel doors!  Sitting next to it are 2 Piece Hummer Rims that are Powder Coated ready for assembly!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a set of Military X doors that I recently purchased that just got back from Afghanistan and they will be doing on the truck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got the Wagon top on the truck.  I found out later that this top came off a Humvee that a friend had handcrafted as he was a metal artist!  Looks just like a factory top but much more reinforced!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got the Military X-doors installed, now off to paint!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got the new doors and roof painted to match!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My son needed the roof for his truck and I had already purchased a 4 door hardtop so we did the swap!  Here it is in the background at the 2017 Summer Pismo Beach Hummer Invasion!  This is at the highest dune in ODSVRA, we took it over, BBQ’d up some great grub and played cornhole!  Good times!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wanted to keep the versatility of the truck so I designed what I think is a pretty cool mid-gate for the Hummer H1!  I have an Escalade EXT and boy does this come in handy!  And yes this one in the Hummer has come in handy too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is an interior shot with the mid-gate down!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a Group shot of the 2017 Pismo Beach Hummer Invasion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Just as an interesting fact, a couple people have asked, how good of a driver is Kevin Jones?  He was the founder of the Hummer H1 Psycho Squad.  Late on evening Kevin Jones and Rick Roberts were talking on the phone and Rick said we start a club and have the most extreme Hummer H1 drivers be members.  A couple weeks later Kevin Jones, Rick Roberts, Art Gonzales and Frank Canseco met and officially formed the H1 Psycho squad.