One nation that probably hasn't been in the news for 25 years. I was a college freshman when I went to a Radio Shack store and found a 7805 voltage regulator with the words "Made in El Salvador" on the package. I bought it and showed it to some people on the campus, which caused many people, including professors, to be surprised.

I have had the idea of depicting a 1980's AML-90 El Salvador vehicle, but have no idea how they were marked or utilized. As might be expected, I would not know where to get genuine, as opposed to politicized, information on the 1980-1992 conflict there.

Believe me I got two pages of just photos of this.Right now I am not feeling too well but just I.M. and I will find a way to get these photos to you.

check video berween 0:40 and 0:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_cMYvtRuU

Check out WarWheels.net :

http://www.warwheels.net/PanhardAML90MONTES.html

H.P.

Frenchy, excellent photo and an excellent idea for a diorama. Simple base with the Marlboro sign behind the AML-90, perfect !
Thanks for the idea !
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Good subject. For a pretty good movie on the El Salvador Civil War, check out Salvadore starring James Woods. It isn't necessarily unbiased (Oliver Stone wrote and directed it, so it is basically anti-Govt), it is still a pretty good movie that shows many of the incidents (death squads, killing of Archbishop Romero, death of 4 female US missionaries, etc...) that occured during the war.

You're welcome

Just found a much better version of this picture :

http://elfaro.net/get_img?ImageId=25928

H.P.

From gettyimages:
"Salvadoran Army On Patrol
View of a Salvadoran Army armored car on a highway in central El Salvador, June 1, 1983."





Cheers,
/E

If you can find them, Darlington Publications published two books on El Salvador vehicles in the '90s and both have at least 8-12 photos of AML-90s. At least one of them carried mesh standoff armor around the turret.

1) Museum Ordnance Special #7 - Armored Fighting Vehicles of El Salvador
2) Mexican and Central American Armor

I was wondering if these vehicles were painted in some sort of local camouflage. I cannot be certain, but it seems that way.