big big money on super saturday april how do you top that i'm doing it right here baby
check this monster out 2006 am general hummer h1 now they didn't make a lot of these alpha
wagons so it's rare it's got inboard brakes 16 inches of ground clearance i mean this
is a beast it can handle a 60 degree grade get through 30 inches of water just no problem this is
a serious manly car speaking of manly here's the manliest man on our broadcast team tyler hoover
uh thank you uh but the alpha is very special because it was the first and only year of the
duramax diesel under the hood before is the 6.5 liter you got the allison transmission a host
of other upgrades in the interior throughout the vehicle but it's also the last of the h1 this was
cancelled and then shortly later hummer went under and of course they're back now as an electric
vehicle but this is the last of the old-school hummers and the last time i saw one of these
was in scottsdale and it surprised everybody it was a record-setting number for a hummer
i think so we'll see what this beautiful alpha does all right this is the one that both april
and tyler teamed up to preview for us a beast of a vehicle a 2006 am general hummer h1 alpha weapon
well of course the hummer started life as a military vehicle then it was offered to
civilians in the mid 90s and continued until the mid-2000s like i said earlier this is the end of
the line the last year of the hummer and the only year you got the duramax diesel which is why these
things are just on fire when it comes to values in the hummer world to your point uh these were
made h1 from 1992 through 2006 but again that 6.6 liter duramax replaced the 6.5 liter of
the year before and only 729 of these were made but why is this engine so good well it bumped
the power from 215 to 300 finally addressing the h1 sluggish behavior but again only 729
there's also some deficiencies in the old 6.5 and 6.2 the cracking blocks of course
the starters that would sort of fall off them this is a much more reliable platform obviously
and a lot more modernized you know you would think a giant vehicle like this would be
difficult to drive but it's really not that bad with the alphas not very much seating though
you think well you can haul six eight people now there's only four seats inside this thing
and the whole point of that is as we saw yesterday was the fact that it's a big old hallway down the
middle of this body where the drive trains tucked up inside separating right and left the whole
point of that was to get away from a low hanging differential and transfer case none of that
and these things will kind of go anything over old knee height without any uh contact well
big vehicle big money 185 000 the current bid and he was just imploring him please bring the hammer
down he thought he had it when somebody else jumped in now he has to think do i want to go five
more do i want to go 10 more bitters assistance there with him saying hold on yeah we got it
gotta have nerves of steal if you want to play the game here at barrett-jackson when you close
in on two hundred thousand dollars well not many opportunities pop up often to buy one of
these of course the hummer is back now as an all electric vehicles can do things like crab walking
all kinds of funny stuff but this this is a hummer to me another detail that's often overlooked
is the fact that this has the five-speed allison automatic replacing the four-speed
gm4 l80e used in 2005. so not just the engine but the transmission is also unique to these
final editions you want the ultimate in reality tv that's what we have right now we got two bidders
the gentleman with the phone in the middle we got the guy on the red shirt on the floor he was in it
he thought he had it at 195. ended up having to go multiple bids comes away the winner at 215 000 for
that massive amg general hummer i think he's out of breath after that i'm out of breath after that