The horizontal grille of the very last 1991 Grand Wagoneer luxury sport-utility vehicle hid some of the same sheetmetal stampings that supported the basic and utilitarian upright grille on the very first 1963 Wagoneer. That’s long led to a belief… Read More ›
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The History of the Jeep Grand Wagoneer – Benjamin Hunting @Motortrend
How the 1984–1991 Grand Wagoneer cast the luxury SUV mould for today’s model. Although luxury trucks are a key profit center for modern automotive manufacturers, there was a time when only a single brand on the American market was brave… Read More ›
HOLY GRAIL ’76 to ’83 Jeep CJ5’s! We’ve got ’em ALL! – Coffee Wak with Dennis Collins on @YouTube
Welcome to Coffee Walk episode 114! We have every single CJ-5 from ’76 to ’83 on the lot and a couple of them are, yes I’m going to say it, HOLY GRAIL Jeeps! Dennis knows his stuff on Jeeps, take… Read More ›
Grand Wagoneer, the luxury SUV before the luxury was a thing – Terry Shea @Hemmings
Before there was Escalade, before Navigator, and certainly before anything BMW X or Audi Q, there was Grand Wagoneer, pretty much standing alone as the luxury utility vehicle that maintained all of the capability of a proper Jeep product. Sure,… Read More ›
1972 JEEP COMMANDO – A 304 CUBIC INCH V8 CLASSIC 4×4 – Ben Branch @Silodrome
The Jeep Commando was directly based on the outgoing Jeepster Commando, however it featured a series of modifications designed to allow it to accommodate the AMC 232 and 258 six-cylinder engines and the 304 V8 engine. THE JEEP COMMANDO –… Read More ›
5 special editions that turbocharge the value of your collector car – Brett Lirones @Hagerty
A few weeks ago, we asked members of the Hagerty Forum to provide us with their favorite terrible special edition cars. No doubt, there were plenty of awful options to choose from, generating more than 50 replies in the discussion. It… Read More ›
What was the final year for a new flathead-powered American car? – Murilee Martin @Autoweek
We’ll count the Simca Vedette as American, since it had a flathead Ford V8. After I wrote about the 1960 Rambler Cross Country Junkyard Treasure, with its flathead engine, the question came up in my circle of obsessive car-trivia crazies: what was the… Read More ›
The last AMC: Jeep’s ZJ Grand Cherokee turns 25, Renault, Chrysler and an Assassination
Hard to believe that the Jeep Grand Cherokee ZJ effectively the last AMC vehicle before the Chrysler take is now 25 years old. For those of you that haven’t heard of American Motors Corporation you can read about them here… Read More ›