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. […]
Many Americans may not know this, but there’s a Memorial Day kind of commemoration in Great Britain, too, that coincides with our own. It’s one of the largest shows of military trucks and regalia in Great Britain, known colloquially as Trucks and Troops. This year’s date is May 28 through 30, and the location is […]
Ford’s GPA might have done well in the Detroit River, but when it went into service during World War II, it proved less than capable in the field. Cumbersome and unwieldy on both land and water, the so-called Seep’s production run ended early, after just 12,778 of them emerged from River Rouge. Those that didn’t […]