Oscar MUTT

My Spit is a ‘high back’…Mk XIVe. 2 x 20mm and 2 x .50 cal wing..

I had one of the first deliverd in Korea in 1962, I had never driven a jeep type vehicle before so I drove it like a car and never had a problem, but the jeep drivers were flipping them all the time when they became available. I’m still not sure what I was doing differntly. The speed limit in Korea at the time was 25mph on the msr’s, but they were still flipping.

Hey Oscar, is your Spit a bubble top?

Nice job on the MUTT too…

Delivered today. Came from Vietnam to Oz a number of years ago. In the hangar next to my Dog. I like it ’cause it ain’t a Willys/Ford ww2 machine – th 😮 ey’re cute but common.

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I despair OD 😀 – if you wanted a jeep then there’s one free on Courtesy (its just the P-40 that comes with it thats $1.2million 😉 )

TT

Delivered today. Came from Vietnam to Oz a number of years ago. In the hangar next to my Dog. I like it ’cause it ain’t a Willys/Ford ww2 machine – th 😮 ey’re cute but common.

Here’s something further from an American military website

In 1950, the US Continental Army Command placed a requirement with the Ordnance Corps for a new vehicle to replace the M38A1. A year later, the Ford Motor Company was awarded a development contract for the new vehicle, and the first prototype was completed in 1952…….

…Some of the advanced features in the design of the M151 caused some initial problems, such as the strength of the rear suspension system, and the high risk of vehicle roll-over.

…Because of the earlier roll-over problems, the US Government decided that the M151 was unsafe for use on public roads, despite a safety kit (called R.O.P.S, the Roll Over Protection System) being developed. A mandate was issued that all M151’s were to be scrapped before being released to the public. Initially achieved by cutting the vehicle in half (allowing some ingenious restorers to weld the halves back together again), the vehicles now have to be crushed by a tracked vehicle.

I’d love to see that last bit! American lawyers huh! Oscar Duck’s hasn’t been delivered as a flat pack has it?

Thought the US Army was expressly forbidden to dispose of them except as scrap? Something to do with civilians not knowing how to drive them and killing themselves trying to do things the MUTT was not supposed to do (like drive at speed?) – Nermal

Apparently the A2 version had the suspension foibles sorted but many of them seemed to have sprouted substantial roll cages in their later service lives though!

The US Army tended to just torch earlier versions in half prior to disposal…… some enterprising collectors just welded the two halves together again :diablo: – everything had been left in situ

Many of the uncut ones around have been sourced from IIRC Singapore or other Far East countries

I’ve heard that-but it depends on the version of the M151 the later types having a chassis mod and different suspension. The US Army certainly didnt have much of a problem releasing the later versions, and indeed they were supplied to many other armies, most notably the Dutch – surplus dealers there will sell you an early, ‘Vietnam type’ MUTT for about four grand. If you are going fast enough to roll it then thats your look out – imagine OD has stuck an M60 on the arse end anyway the post being a jolly useful roll over hoop.

TT

Thought the US Army was expressly forbidden to dispose of them except as scrap? Something to do with civilians not knowing how to drive them and killing themselves trying to do things the MUTT was not supposed to do (like drive at speed?) – Nermal

Just found this http://groups.msn.com/claycountytexasremanufacturedjeepandhumvee/yourwebpage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us
I suppose a few will slip through.

Is its bark worse than its bite… 😉

T J

S’like a jeep only barking 😉

Woss one of them?