History of the Bobbed Deuce

[russ81]

I remember that e-Bay truck..........I was looking at buying an M-37, but fell in love with the bobbed M-35.

We fell in love with the same S.L.U.T. (Short Length Utility Truck)

 

[chvss65]

 

[Rattlewagon]

I remember that e-Bay truck..........I was looking at buying an M-37, but fell in love with the bobbed M-35.

We fell in love with the same S.L.U.T. (Short Length Utility Truck)

that is the exact situation i found myself in! still want a '37 but a deuce is in my future!

i saw my first short-tailed deuce about 3 years ago. been trying to get one ever since! (well part time anyway)

 

[Blood_of_Tyrants]

1st one I saw was on Ebay about 5 yrs ago and had a military pickup bed on it??
I was smitten and I wanted one till finally found one, last year

Now that looks pretty neat!

 

[bulldog_mack13]

I heard John Winslow

 

[Mark2X2]

Hec, I just thought it was a refrance to Lorain Bobbit!
Mark

For a more general example, try your local hairdresser.

It's a term for cut shorter or an example of something that is short.

bob (bŏb)
n.
A small, knoblike pendent object, such as a plumb bob.
A fishing float or cork.
A small lock or curl of hair.
A woman's or child's short haircut.
Informal. Surgical shortening or reshaping of the nose.
The docked tail of a horse.
A bobsled.
A bob skate.

 

[foothill4play]

Hec, I just thought it was a refrance to Lorain Bobbit!
Mark

 

[SasquatchSanta]

Instead of being referred to as a "deuce-and-a-half", a bobbed deuce should be called a "half-a-deuce"

 

[jatonka]

I built the first M35 4x4 conversion that was put on the internet. year 2002. However, my son Jake and I got the whole idea from John Winslow in the beginning of 2002 on a trip to his place. The rest of the story....... Jim Henry says he did them before John Winslow got the idea from him. For a fact, the XM381 was built and tested by the military in 1952. The XM381-E1 was again built and tested in 1964. I have done 3 of them to date, I still own the original JATonka truck, the second went to a friend in Syracuse, NY who later sold it, and the 3rd one is owned by our own" Sasquatch Santa" Ernie Mitchell in Orr, MN. I have another we are working on now and will have a different power train when done. JT out