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One thing for sure: - They'd make a killer anchor for a crab pot.

Good post, Robo, please keep them coming. And over here in the Good Ol' USA esteemed experts like that are referred to reverently as consultants.

But my family got a hold of one (and just one), somehow. One cousin though tells me that the tenant farmer on my grandparents MD farm served in theater with my grandfather, and that the story of where the jeep came from might be connected. But no detail, so I have to disregard that.

Those U.S. Jeeps couldn't be beat. Just how versatile was the old Willys JEEP? Here's one of the comments to me from a cousin (after questioning if anyone knew where it came from): I also remember the power take off being used to saw lumber out behind the raspberries. It was also used at the...

I'm thinking that the comment by the mom of Trailboss (no star/ no combat) has substance: - nothing scientific, but having watched my wife work the bamboo network with her buddies over the years convinces me that the network is extremely effective (all those myriad moms "chatting over backyard...

This is a great thread, wrench; thanks for kicking it all off.

My hat's off to the dude, because THAT is some creative re-purposing. Yee-Haw! Just wondering: was the demo by driving into the houses, or by shelling them?!

A round of emails, and a round of phone calls to siblings, cousins, kith, and kin and here's the consensus (not a confirmation but a consensus): - late 40's/ early 50's after the war (WWII, of course), and there were depots all around the DC area (Meyer, Meade, Belvoir, Aberdeen, A.P. Hill...

Thanks Gordon and I'm hoping you'll start a thread of your own on this sucker. And, looking at your avatar, also on the other snow machines you might have, all look like a gas. And now back to our regular scheduled programming: the OP.

Great stuff, thank you. Can't really tell from the photo (and I hope my question is clear, but recognize maybe not): - Your Snow Tractor: is the forward-running configuration 1) track forward?, or 2) cab forward? Oh, yeah; and VERY nice item, by the way (1:4, Wow).

Sound fairly exotic, don't recall ever hearing the names of these vehicles before; you wouldn't happen to have some pictures to slap up here, would you (if you please)?

Well, now that you mention it, I don't recall that there was a star on that Willys on my grandfather's farm (and how would you miss a detail like that). It's a good bet that your Mom's correct, I mean she got the idea from somewhere, right? Maybe it didn't come from overseas. Wondering now...

Well in that case, I sure do hope the wipers are operational.

No, they were Cre-ated. And on the Seventh Day they rested.

My grandfather served through WWII and had an old Willys on his farm after the war. It was accepted as being "his" while in theater, and that he brought it home with him (somehow). I never heard any talk otherwise, but I really don't know HOW he got that thing. And everybody who might answer...