This settles it!
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My intent in relaying the experience I had this morning is not to stir up the MUTT name firestorm again, but to add some more information concerning this long-time debate.
I took an M151A2 hood to the local UPS depot today to ship. The place didn't open until 11:00 and I got there at 10:00, so I was waiting an hour for it to open. While I was waiting another car drove up and he was early too.
We struck up a conversation to kill the time and the question came up about what was in the very large box I was shipping. Not wanting to be too specific I said it was a Jeep hood. He asked me who made the Jeep and I said there were a number of companies including Ford and AM General.
He than told me he was drafted in 1961 and was in until 1963, and was activated for the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. He was stationed in some armored unit at Ft. Hood. He said they went by train from Texas to Florida to support a possible invasion of Cuba.
He then told me they had some Ford Jeeps in their unit. Then, he said out of the blue, and I quote, "We had a nickname for them. We called them MUTTs."
So, there is an example of someone who, while in the service, did call the M151 a MUTT. I just thought this spontaneous use of the term MUTT to describe an M151 by someone in the service in 1962, and not in the military vehicle hobby, was an interesting fact to add to the debate.
I took an M151A2 hood to the local UPS depot today to ship. The place didn't open until 11:00 and I got there at 10:00, so I was waiting an hour for it to open. While I was waiting another car drove up and he was early too.
We struck up a conversation to kill the time and the question came up about what was in the very large box I was shipping. Not wanting to be too specific I said it was a Jeep hood. He asked me who made the Jeep and I said there were a number of companies including Ford and AM General.
He than told me he was drafted in 1961 and was in until 1963, and was activated for the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. He was stationed in some armored unit at Ft. Hood. He said they went by train from Texas to Florida to support a possible invasion of Cuba.
He then told me they had some Ford Jeeps in their unit. Then, he said out of the blue, and I quote, "We had a nickname for them. We called them MUTTs."
So, there is an example of someone who, while in the service, did call the M151 a MUTT. I just thought this spontaneous use of the term MUTT to describe an M151 by someone in the service in 1962, and not in the military vehicle hobby, was an interesting fact to add to the debate.
1979 AM General M151A2 "Barstow"
1972 AM General M151A2 (Sold 2020)
1987 AM General M1026 HMMWV (Sold 2012)
1986 Chevy M1009 CUCV Blazer (Sold 2006)
2 M416 Trailers (Sold)
K3YYZ
1972 AM General M151A2 (Sold 2020)
1987 AM General M1026 HMMWV (Sold 2012)
1986 Chevy M1009 CUCV Blazer (Sold 2006)
2 M416 Trailers (Sold)
K3YYZ
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They also say "it was an improved jeep, built between 1964 and 1969". Wrong..
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I'll stir it some. Too bad we can't make poll threads.
All,
When asked do you say
1) M - one - five - one
or
2) M one-fifty-one?
I tend to say #1 but have heard both used.
All,
When asked do you say
1) M - one - five - one
or
2) M one-fifty-one?
I tend to say #1 but have heard both used.
1960 M151 Run #1
"There is one nut on a M151 that is very difficult to remove....." - K8icu
"She ain't a Cadillac and she ain't a Rolls, But there ain't nothin' wrong with the radio" - Aaron Tippin
"There is one nut on a M151 that is very difficult to remove....." - K8icu
"She ain't a Cadillac and she ain't a Rolls, But there ain't nothin' wrong with the radio" - Aaron Tippin
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My experience was always "M one-five-one", jeep or "quarter-ton".
A side note, my battalion used M113A1 APCs. We referred to them as "tracks" or M one-one-three", don't recall hearing "M one-thirteen".
We all have our experiences, and in Services that rotated lots of personnel through over long periods of time, I have no doubt that the mystic Ford pamphlet that referred to the M151 as a MUTT acronym resulted in an accepted, yet little-remembered, use of that term.
My $0.02 worth.
A side note, my battalion used M113A1 APCs. We referred to them as "tracks" or M one-one-three", don't recall hearing "M one-thirteen".
We all have our experiences, and in Services that rotated lots of personnel through over long periods of time, I have no doubt that the mystic Ford pamphlet that referred to the M151 as a MUTT acronym resulted in an accepted, yet little-remembered, use of that term.
My $0.02 worth.
Jim Peterson
SGM, 31B Retired 2015
1961 M151 -Sold
1974 M151A2, Working It!
SGM, 31B Retired 2015
1961 M151 -Sold
1974 M151A2, Working It!
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It still irks me when some guy walks up and out of the blue, tells me I have a nice Willys.....
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151 ! I get the willys comment also! just shows me up front that there not very knowledgeable!
1967 M-35-a2-D SOLD
1973 M151A2
M151 A1-SOLD
196? franken MUTT
M1oo trailer-sold
1963 M151-sold
1968 M416 trailer
1988 998 Humvee-4 man
1994 998 Humvee-up armored
1973 M151A2
M151 A1-SOLD
196? franken MUTT
M1oo trailer-sold
1963 M151-sold
1968 M416 trailer
1988 998 Humvee-4 man
1994 998 Humvee-up armored
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I thought the very 1st M151s were made by willy
mark
1968 m274A5
1960 m151
1981 m151A2
1964 m416
1971 m416
1968 m274A5
1960 m151
1981 m151A2
1964 m416
1971 m416
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You do have a nice blue willys.m3a1 wrote:It still irks me when some guy walks up and out of the blue, tells me I have a nice Willys.....
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Don't confuse him! He is is cornfused enough!!!
1964 M151A1
1984 M1008
1967 M416
04/1952 M100
12/1952 M100- Departed
AN/TSQ-114A Trailblazer- Gone
1984 M1008
1967 M416
04/1952 M100
12/1952 M100- Departed
AN/TSQ-114A Trailblazer- Gone
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Yeah. I'm SO confused I'm posting about this Willys on the M151 site. There's the proof of it!
Har-dee-har-har. Y'all are hilarious.
Har-dee-har-har. Y'all are hilarious.
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My 94 year old uncle , a navy vet, has told me more than once he had drove one like that during WWII.....But I always gave him a pass ......He is has since passed away....
slowest mutt east of the missippi..
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He was right, It was green. Well, then again Navy was grey but no matter. It was small, square and had four wheel drive.
1964 M151A1
1984 M1008
1967 M416
04/1952 M100
12/1952 M100- Departed
AN/TSQ-114A Trailblazer- Gone
1984 M1008
1967 M416
04/1952 M100
12/1952 M100- Departed
AN/TSQ-114A Trailblazer- Gone
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My 72 Charger gets called a Challenger all the time. Even though it says Charger on 3 sides. eeerrrrr