A front-wheel-drive tractor sounds like unthinkable blasphemy in the Great Plains states. A tracked front-wheel-drive tractor? Boy, they send you to the looney bin for thinking up stuff like that.
But, thanks to Gene Herman, we see that not only was the idea thought up, but we also see that the Sherman Products Company of Royal […]
While many Kaiser aficionados know that Kaiser dabbled in jeeps during World War II, before making a splash in the automotive field, perhaps fewer know that Kaiser at one point attempted to produce articulated inter-city buses.
Built in 1946 at Kaiser’s Permanente Metals Corporation plant near Los Altos, California, the three-axle, 60-foot bus featured true monocoque […]
Maybe calling the AGL-4 a Gama Goat predecessor is assuming too much. The combination of Corvair six-cylinder engine and articulated joint doesn’t necessarily lead from one to the other, especially considering the fact that GM itself was behind the former and Ling-Temco-Vought built the latter. Besides, there was at least one other Corvair-powered articulated multi-wheeler […]