V-8 rumbling, and country music on the radio, you forget for just a moment it’s not the late ’80s. Nearly everything about the 1988 Vigilante Jeep Grand Wagoneer Hellcat Redeye looks and feels ...

Michael Teo Van Runkle is a journalist who covers the auto industry. The first thing Vigilante 4x4 founder Daniel van Doveren points out, as we walk up to his latest Jeep restomod, seriously bugs him.

the Vigilante was largely relegated to reconnaissance missions, where it would see action during the Vietnam War. However, with the deployment of the RF-8 Crusader and the RF-4 Phantom II ...