In recognition of our March Military Campaign, let’s take a break from considering the collector-worthiness of all those namby-pamby civilian passenger vehicles from 1986 and look at a vehicle that has surely earned its stripes, the AM General HMMWV, a.k.a. the Humvee. Designed in 1979 to replace a number of vehicles then in the U.S. […]
One of the requests for the March Military Campaign that I fielded this year came from Myron Vernis, who asked if we’d yet written about the Mighty Mite. I searched our archives to find out that not only had we not written about it, but also that I was frequently confusing the Mighty Mite with […]
While the ad for this 1986 Hummer on Hemmings.com has it listed as an H1, the obvious military configuration (the seller, in his brief description, states it’s a former USMC Hummer) leads me to think it should rather be described as an AM General M998 HMMWV. Indeed, the Hummer H1 wasn’t even introduced until 1992. […]