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 […]

Ah, the dreams of frustrated inventors. When every other issue of Popular Science is predicting flying cars just over the horizon, you almost start believing that traffic jams and rutted roads will become a thing of the past and that we will soon take to the skies en masse the same way we took to […]