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Old May 11, 2006 | 10:15 AM
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Fastest Hummer?

GeigerCars Builds World’s Fastest Police HUMMER

An unnamed (obviously a little crazy) Texas sheriff commissioned GeigerCars based in Europe to build the black-and-white beast. It's powered by a 7.0L supercharged V8 making the aforementioned Texas-sized allotment of 700 horses. You can see that the suspension's been lowered and tightened up to handle the extra power and larger eight-pot stoppers have been installed. The bigger brakes will be put to the test trying to arrest the motion of those one-piece chrome 28-inch rims after they've reached the H2's terminal velocity of 155 electronically-limited miles per hour.

This guy's totally creepy.



Old May 11, 2006 | 10:19 AM
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That is the stupidest, ugliest waste of money I have ever seen.

The truck is lame too.
Old May 11, 2006 | 10:39 AM
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Looks like Ben Cartwright standing next to chromed wagon wheels. FUGLY.
Old May 11, 2006 | 10:46 AM
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Paint = Ugly
Wheels = Ugly
Dude = ghey

Although, if the paint was done right and it had some nice 35" BFG Mud Terrians it would look 1000x better; and replace Dude with hot chick...
Old May 11, 2006 | 10:48 AM
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Is this a "just say no to drugs" show car sort a thing? b/c I don't know where a Texas county sheriff would get the money for a Hummer, much less a Geiger modified one.
Old May 11, 2006 | 10:48 AM
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I hope they got that in a drug bust, otherwise I'd be pissed they wasted so much tax payer money. That guy looks like a creep.
Old May 11, 2006 | 10:58 AM
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I'd drive it.
Old May 11, 2006 | 11:58 AM
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The truck is pretty cool, those rims are way too large IMHO. Maybe a nice set of 20's might look better.

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Old May 11, 2006 | 12:28 PM
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And after 2 120-0 stops, it'll need a new set of tires, and the brakes will generate enough heat to power the turbines of a small nuclear sub for 1 hour..

Old May 11, 2006 | 12:28 PM
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Funniest thing I've seen lately!

Obviously it's NOT taxpayer funded and it's NOT a real police vehicle (County Sheriff? What county? And how many police vehicles advertize customized engines on the fender and wear promotional license plates?).

Even if it were a real police vehicle, my guess is that it's a confiscated or donated vehicle where a promotional deal with GeigerCars was worked out. Anyone thinking county officials (or any public official that either is or has to answer to an elected official) would approve such a thing is pretty off base. Plus, every purchase by a government agency of even a used undercover car has to be approved.

At any rate, it's obviously a publicity photo.

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Old May 11, 2006 | 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by guionM
Obviously it's NOT taxpayer funded and it's NOT a real police vehicle (County Sheriff? What county?
Listen, quit covering up. We all know it's you.
Old May 11, 2006 | 01:17 PM
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So do you think the guy in the pictures is a real sheriff?
Old May 11, 2006 | 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by muckz
Listen, quit covering up. We all know it's you.
Shhhhh!
Old May 11, 2006 | 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Gripenfelter
This guy's totally creepy.
Just fitting for the fugly Hummer he is standing next to...
Old May 11, 2006 | 05:46 PM
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Not a real Police/Sheriff vehicle.

Not a real Sheriff or Deputy.



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