Recall from your Jeep history books that Bantam actually beat Willys to the punch on submitting a design for the Jeep, but never earned the big contract to produce the Jeep. Instead, as a sort of consolation prize, Bantam got to build the trailers that were often towed behind the Willys-built (and Ford-built) Jeeps. This […]
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 […]
* While you may have heard of the six-wheeled Gama Goat by now, you likely haven’t heard much of its four-wheeled predecessor, the AGL-4. Like the very first Gama Goat prototype, the AGL-4 is powered by an air-cooled Corvair six-cylinder and features an articulating joint between cab and bed. GM apparently developed it for military […]