Broken Arrow Hummers

From the email, March 1999:

I would like to let you know that AM General would not support the script [of Broken Arrow] portraying Hummers as bad-guy vehicles. The production company then contacted my company, Five-Star Military Vehicles to provide them. The script called for a Hummer chase scene where the two vehicles would continually smash into one another. One would be set on fire and be "burned to the ground" and the other be eventually be sent plummeting down a mine shaft and destroyed.

Needless to say I was not interested in sacrificing two or more of my fleet in that way, so I refered the coordinators to two individuals who would sell their vehicles for destruction. One of mine was used as a stand-in vehicle, and I was present when the two other units collided in the desert to make sure mine wasn't substituted if the take was not successful. They sure took a beating and with the help of Australian Dennis Merchant and one of my drivers, the vehicles indeed made it through!

Because of the little damage sustained and repaired on my Humvee, it survived to battle other foes including Godzilla, and countless aliens. I just wanted to correct that one point that otherwise is a great site. Please look up militaryvehicles.com soon to be on line with roughly 50 photos of our 140 units.

Best regards,
Stan Serr, [3/1999]
owner, Five-Star Military Vehicle Rental Co., Huntington Beach, California, USA

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