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I saw this boy at the dog show yesterday and had to ask the owner what breed he was! Turns out his is just a mutt, is that not the cutest mix breed you have ever seen?! If I saw this boy in the pound I wouldn't hesitate to take him home, those eyes are stunning. I officially have permission to steal him for Photos. =P
This old Mutt jeep has an amazing history and is wonderful car and testament to the relationship between the USA and the Old World and practical engineering? Ah the old days .
Personally I was very happy to hear , this week , of the demise of impractical "Hummer", that incredibly obscene , vulgar over-the- top military vehicle whose clone had become a status symbol in the bottom of the gene pool end, Jerry Springer contestants yeh? in the US and GB for new rich ignorant plebs who consume so conspicuously and are the joke of the thinking world and threaten us all!
The humble "Willies" Jeep is probably my most favourite vehicle of all time next to the orginal Land Rover both of which were cobbled together in moments of war and would have run on petrol or gin or nats piss and you could fashion parts for them out of a bake bean tins and scrap metal.
The Hummer is probably the most vulgar, over the top impractical vehicle of all time and a complete waste of money and that probally sums up the worst of the USA in terms of complete faceless sham and indiffernce to the worls in terms of waste and conspicuous consumerism . No room , so impractical , so ugly, so expensive, so gas hungry but then again the egos that buy them have enormous needs .
USA, our allies, still contribute to a quarter of the greenhouse effect with gas guzzling over the top cars and how come parents take their kids to school in what is this obscene un-necessary vehicle and its variants.?
Woh. I have a car and it gets me from A to B and that is all it is . I have no need for status or symbols and I have such contempt for people whose cars are more than transport but some sort of statement of who they are , bought on credit of course.
How come so many people have four wheel drive vehicles to take their kids to school here in GB and the US?
USA, self appointed policeman of the world and keepers of the moral high ground led by and incompetent religious bigot who has no concern for tomorrow , the melting glaciers and the threat to us all?
Preis für den 3. Prämierungsplatz auf der 'Balzfeld Classics 2018': 6 Dachsenfranz-Bier für stolzen den Fahrer des AM General 'MUTT' M151 A2
AM Genneral M151 A2 'MUTT' & eine Junkers Ju 52 'Tante Ju' auf der Airliner Classics in Speyer, 2017
The M151 MUTT is the vehicle that the US military adopted to replace the jeep after word war II.
Eventually the MUTT was itself replaced my by the HumVee (HMMWV).
I think MUTT stands for Mobile Utility Tactical Truck, but I'm not 100% on that.
I believe they were developed and manufactured by Ford, thought there probably would have been at least one other manufacturer at some time - the US military didn't used to like single supplier kit back in the cold war - too easy for a single factory to get nuked - people thought different in those days.
By all accounts the MUTT was a bit of a death trap, with all around independent suspension which caused it to roll a lot and no roll cage.
You don't see many of these in Australia - normally vehicles like this only become available from US government disposal auctions, which mainly occur in the the US, Europe and other places that there are large permanently basedUS military formations - these days i think this would include the Middle East. It would not surprise me if this was the only one in the country, and even if not it wouldn't surprise me if it was the only one of this particular FFR variant in the country,
This particular MUTT was apparently imported from Japan, which did (and perhaps stil does) have a permanent US formations based there.
The owner/importer was a japanese amateur radio operator (i.e. a ham).
If you look behind the driver seat (it's left hand driver - we are facing the driver side) you can see a military radio of some kind - I'm not sure which..
This vehicle was what the Australian and British Army would call FFR ( fitted for radio) i.e. had an electrical harness and hardware to mount radios, and probably has an extra alternator/generator and probably extra batteries to run the radio while the engine is switched off.
The vehicle appeared to be fairly complete - it appeared to have full CES (complete equipment schedule - that means all the tools, ropes, manuals, pioneer tools etc that the vehicle would normally be issued with).
It also has a fording kit - note the really long exhaust pipe at the back, and the snorkel for the air intake on the front.
I couldn't really get the driver's story - he's English was poor and my Japanese is 1000 times worse.
Still no language was required for me to communicate my admiration for his awful sexy boy toy, nor for him to understand my admiration of his lovely bit of militaria.
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Lizzie gets quite bossy if we leave the van without her. This is her at her 'mildly belligerant' stage.
I took this picture in Plainville, Massachusetts. This is a US Army M151A1 Mutt of the Jeep family. The "Mutt" was first used in Vietnam and only recently retired in the early 1990s.
New Mutt seen in Romsey Square. Typical Chinese 125 with an engine based on an old Suzuki design, style input from the UK based importer.
Inspired by the Great Escape film, Captain Virgil Hilts being played by Steve McQueen.
To me this looks odd with the gap between engine and exhaust pipe. Maybe this is filled on the 250cc version.
The front brake looks impressive.