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AM General: Hummers, Mutts, Buses & Postal Jeeps (Photo Archive)

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I own an AM General Postal Jeep. As a result, I wanted to know more about my Jeep, and the company who built it. This book was a fun read, it gave me the information I wanted, and it is a nice bit of trivia of American automotive history.

I bought this book because I was looking for information about the history of the original Hummer and it's creator AM General. This book offers a lot of details about the other products from this manufacturer as well. Expect good information on the M44 trucks, postal jeeps, buses and of course both Humvees and Hummers.

All in all a short yet good read for people interested in AM General and it's products that are, except for one of course, mostly unknown by the public.

If you are looking for detailed information about other AM General products...enjoy all the pictures of HumVees.

This book neatly sums up the history of AM GENERAL. One has to wonder what might have been, if the parent company American Motors had managed to hold on a bit longer, would it be a dominant force in the auto market today? Quite possibly, give the fact that the company went out of business just as the SUV craze was taking hold, and AMC did have the iconic JEEP in it's line up. And of course, AM GENERAL produced profits for the company, through it's miliary contracts, more on that a bit later!
As for AM GENERAL, I wonder how many HUMMER owners know that their vehicle began as an offshoot of the JEEP?
One interesting omission in the book. AMC had to divest itself of AM GENERAL in the early 1980s. It seems that the American government was OK with Renault taking over the car end of the business, but did not want AM GENERAL, a miliary contrator, falling into the hands of a Socialist foreign power, that is to say, France !!