Junkyard Find: 1982 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep
AMC got a (brief) new lease on life in the early 1980s when the French government, via Renault, invested in the staggering Wisconsin car company. Meanwhile, huge purchases of DJ-5s by the US Postal...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1979 AM General DJ-5G Jeep, With Factory Audi Power
Even though the DJ Jeep was two-wheel-drive, Coloradans must really love them. I see DJ-5 “Mail Jeeps” in Denver-area wrecking yards all the time (for example, this ’82 and this ’72). I’ve mostly...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1971 AM General DJ-5B Mail Jeep
Some say the huge US Postal Service contract to buy Jeep DJs saved AMC (well, postponed AMC’s final downward spiral by a decade or so), and everyone will agree that vast quantities of USPS-surplus Mail...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1974 AM General FJ-8A Ice Cream Truck
We see quite a few AM General DJ-5 mail Jeeps in this series, but what about all the big FJ-series mail trucks built by AMC with help from its Overland-Willys-Kaiser ancestry? For that, I had to...
View ArticleUS Army Makes $744K In First-Ever Public Humvee Auction
Forget Panthers: Humvees are the new hotness, as so demonstrated when the United States Army held its first-ever public auction for a surplus of the iconic military vehicle. Military.com reports a...
View ArticleBack Home Again In Indiana: Mercedes-Benz To Move R-Class Production To Its...
As a tyke growing up in South Bend, Indiana, my father and I would often stake out the lots behind the Studebaker factories with hopes of spotting the next generation Avanti or Lark. Too often all we...
View ArticleBrand New Hummer H1s Still Available to U.S. Army and Chinese Civilians
Bob Lutz And Henrik Fisker’s feisty Michigan-based VLF Automotive is bringing the H1 back to the masses — provided they don’t reside in North America. Lutz has struck a deal with Humvee Export, a small...
View ArticleAM General for Sale: GM Could Be Interested in Getting Military-grade Hummer
AM General, the brand responsible for the freedom-spreading Humvee (HMMWV) and obnoxious civilian Hummer, is reportedly up for sale. The company is even alleged to have a couple of suitors. Both...
View ArticleGeneral Motors’ Defense Division Up and Running, Hires Army Veteran as President
Last year, news broke that General Motors was getting back into the defense business. The automaker had a slick new military fuel-cell concept and was in the process of setting up GM Defense LLC in...
View ArticleAM General Wants to Re-enlist Jeep With Gladiator XMT
Jeep and AM General are joining forces to build a military-spec pickup, drafting the Gladiator into active duty. Though we suppose this is more of a reunion than a team-up, as both companies (and their...
View ArticleRare Rides: The 1996 AM General Hummer, Don’t Call it H1
As I was considering some serious topics yesterday, namely the Jaguar XK8 as a used car buy and the new GMC Hummer EV, I came to the realization we’d never touched on any Hummer vehicles in the Rare...
View ArticleAbandoned History: The Vehicle Production Group and its MV-1, Accessible...
Historically speaking, the handicap accessible vehicle market in North America was catered to by aftermarket companies, who’d convert standard passenger vehicles (usually larger vans) to be accessible....
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