* 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 […]

So when Chrysler saw all sorts of sales success with the 300/300C several years ago, I wonder if anybody recalled that the company had toyed with the idea of reintroducing the 300 nameplate a decade prior, even before the 300M came along? Probably not – the Thunderbolt was the big Chrysler show car that year, […]

Where FoMoCo provided engines during World War II for the unique dual-engined Traco-E&L bomber parts haulers, GM engines were conscripted into a similar service after the war.
According to Crismon, around 1947, the Eisenhauser Manufacturing Company of Van Wert, Ohio, built the above five-axle straight truck as a prototype to see whether it was possible to […]