Chinese Chef Spends $630 Making His Own Knockoff Hummer

Chinahush ^ | 8DEC11 | editorial staff

[vannrox]

(From Netease) Chinese folks have always had the self-entertaining mindset to compare little things to big renowned things even just for the slightest resemblance. We had a post last year talking about a homemade knockoff Lamborghini by a 25 years old guy.

Recently a chef from Zigong City, Sichuan Province became famous on the Internet for spending only about 4000 yuan in designing and handcrafting what netizens called a knockoff "Hummer".

The 2 meter long, 1.5 meter high homemade auto took Qu Zhibo 3 years to build since he was busy running his own restaurant. Small as it is, it has everything an auto needed, it burns gasoline and can be driven in the similar manners of a normal car. The only difference lies in the starting - one have to start the kart from behind before jumping into the driver seat to drive, since the engine that remodeled from a motorcycle locates at the end.

[rockinqsranch]

Yes I know this creative gentleman Chef is in China, but his creation reminds me of post WWII Kimchi Cabs I saw while in South Korea. The Koreans revitalized defunct Jeeps, and built cabs for them out of old 55 gallon steel drums they beat, and welded to the bodies of the old jeeps, and then went into business transporting people around the towns. A Korean Yellow cab if you will, but they were green in color. I remember someone telling me not a one of them had any brakes. Interesting.

[21twelve]

My wife laments that today’s kids are only going to have stories about video games and stuff on their phones. Of course back then we would get caught on the street with it and the cops would tell us to knock it off, and take it to the school parking lot. Luckily the school was only a couple blocks away - so we would push it there after we got caught. Most of the time.

Who knows what the cops and/or the school would do with such a contraption nowadays.

[bert]

I would argue the vehicle is a poorly made jeepney