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This has some Cutlas Bulldog hubs. I didn’t recognize them at first with the green paint.
“Runs great,brand new tires all around, bring trailer has bad wheel cylinder leak,trades considering older antique classic cars or trucks older than 1970 projects I have paperwork for clear title”
“Calls only no text.
I have an older Willy’s jeep I believe it a 1946 cj2a .
It is pretty much all there.
The motor came out of the mb 3a I think.
I took it in trade and don’t have a title for it . It was on a ranch and was the grandfather’s jeep but they had no idea where the title was.
It did run but hasn’t been started in some time.
If your interested in it as is the asking price is 1800. Obo”
UPDATE: Don makes some good points in his comment below as to why there might not be any MBs pictured.
The January 1942 issue of Scientific American included an article titled “Meet the Jeep”, one I’ve been waiting about 7 years to snag. For some reason, though MBs were already being produced, no images of the MB were included. Instead, the first image shows a Ford GP. The second photo shows a Bantam BRC-40 T2E1.
UPDATE II: This version of the Power-Lock brochure was posted to eWillys in May of 2023.
I hadn’t seen this version of the Cutlas Power-Lock brochure. Given the 1959 date, this is likely one of the earliest Power-Lock brochures. This brochure doesn’t not include a form number.
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UPDATE April 16, 2020: The bottom brochure examples show a brochure from 1958, probably Cutlas’ first one. You’ll note that the brochure (and the hub itself) was branded “Power-Lock”. However, the 1960 brochure (shown just below this text) lacks any “Power-Lock”branding. Perhaps someone else knows why, but I can find no reason why. Maybe there was some concern about whether the patent would be awarded? (It wasn’t awarded until 1962).
1960 Cutlas Hub Brochure:
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Originally posted Feb of 2019:
This Power-Lock was the first hub patented (1958), copyrighted (1958), and sold under the Cutlas brand. As I mention in my Free-Lock article, for reasons unknown, the president of Free-Lock became the president of Cutlas. Even more curious, the last two model of Free-Lock hubs were WL-57 and WL-58.
And, what was the Initial model of the first Cutlas hub you ask? That would be WL-6, shown below (1958 Cutlas Hub Brochure):
“1941 WILLYS Mb serial number 101558 with bantam mbt trailer. Runs and drives. Has your common leaks. Fairly complete has some rust in front floor boards. Could use a brake overhaul. Comes with a bantam trailer. Brand new canvas top,windshield cover, headlight covers, and trailer cover from beachwood canvas”
“1949 CJ2A frame and running gear, brakes have been upgraded to the larger Ford drum brakes, original 3 speed with overdrive. The tub is an aftermarket CJ3B. The engine is a Buick Odd Fire V6. Has an electric fan, custom tire carrier and rear bumper, Jeep has been rewired, and has dual gas tanks. Comes with a soft top, hard top and bikini top.. Has some rust over rear tires and in tool box under passenger seat . Mileage is unknown Clear title. Jeep is in Santa Maria, California.”
“CJ2a willys jeep. This is a project jeep. it has a V8 chevy swapped into it. has rust, but overall not to bad for the year. what you see is what you get. i haven’t tried to get it started yet. just thought i would post it before i do any work on it.”