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Kieser, Willys, and Studebaker, came together with Hudson to form AMC, and when AMC suffered a leverage buy out, ( corporate piracy ) by Chrysler, only to get their hands on the Jeep line up, they then set out to systematically erase AMC from all history, they even went so far as to destroy all records, when the AMC hobby asked to buy the molds and records, they refused and destroyed everything, they even went after hobby vendors for using the AMC logo. Any way there was a military division of AMC called AM general. the general comes in because General motors' was there biggest supplier of components. As for the Hummer ever having any similarity to the military version, it's not true, the chassis is completely different, there were some civilian versions sold, Arnold was the first to get one, and when the popularity of them took of GM obtained a license agreement with AM General to build a civilian version, the only similarity of that one was the body, the military version uses independent suspension, inboard disc brakes, a gear driven reveres drive spindle, in other words the drive axles are turning backwards when the vehicle is going forward. The closest thing to a recognizable GM part in the HMMWV is the 6.2 diesel engine and the 700R transmission.
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