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Vulnerable areas are ball joints, tie rod ends, front springs (sag), CV joints & boots...
Check the undercarriage for hard impacts from heavy off-roading, especially the a-frames & the frame cross-members (the front-most cross-member usually takes the most...
In addition to the info you'll find here on SS, take a look at this site for tech info & parts vendors, AND some Classifieds...
Hummer Knowledge Base [thumbzup]
As a price point reference, I've seen nice H1 Hummers go for as little as $20K-$22K, and I recently saw a nice Gasser H1 sell locally for only $16K (I still kick myself for missing out on that one!!).
I paid $25K for mine, but it was an exceptionally clean and well-equipped low-mileage 6.5L NA...
Well those are all good points "SETOYOTA".
But I bought my H1 to drive & use... :driver: so I really don't care about what the value will be in 20 or 40 years. (I'll be lucky to still be kickin' in 40 years!!)
I initially looked at HMMWVs, but the prices seemed overinflated to me.
But once I...
Amazing to me that the price of a running Military HMMWV is often higher that the price of a Civilian Hummer.
At first I wanted to find/buy a HMMWV, but after I discovered what kind of $$ were gonna be needed to obtain one in good running & physical condition I instead opted for a Civi Hummer...