Vintage Military Trucks: USMC M442 – Marine Mighty Mite

A very informative short ten minute video popped up on Youtube this week – providing some history on a unique military vehicle used by the Marines in the late 50’s and early 60’s – the M442 Mighty Mite. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZE-N6CtXmM&ab_channel=MyClassicCarTV

I knew a little about this vehicle – for those of us old enough, it was frequently seen on the 1963-64 TV program “The Lieutenant”  created by a pre-Star Trek Gene Roddenberry.  But I wasn’t aware that it was initially developed by four former Bantam engineers and that it had a stillborn AMC aluminum air-cooled V4 engine.  Interesting stuff…