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    One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup

    Bite me, Nibbles. #wagoneer
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup

    Why are the hamsters so slow? Nobody's around here today. #wagoneer
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    10/24/09

    @Novaload: And they ate half my picture. #wagoneer
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup
    At least someone snagged the grille. #wagoneer
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/24/09

    @Novaload: Stop saying what I say. #wagoneer
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    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup
    At least someone snagged the grille. #wagoneer
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    10/24/09

    @Novaload: You're scaring me. #wagoneer
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/24/09

    @skaycog: Who are you? Do I know you? I thought I was the only person here. Are you a figment of my disturbed imagination?! #wagoneer
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    10/24/09

    @Novaload: It's me!! Don't you remember me? I noticed you were getting upset with the half picture and your double comments. Just take a deep breath and relax. #wagoneer
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    Image of Old Grimey Old Grimey
    10/24/09

    @Novaload: I was looking at a Saab Sonett III (now long gone) at my neighborhood St. Vincent DePaul car lot a while back, and I noticed a 1984 Jeep Grand Wagoneer parked next to it. I had to take a look, since I find them to be interesting.

    About the grilles on Grand Wagoneers, or at least the one I looked at: they appear to be made of vacuum-metalized plastic, since the "chrome" was peeling off and a dull black substance was visible underneath. So if this one had the same kind of grille that the one I looked at on the St. Vincent car lot had, no great loss. #wagoneer
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/24/09

    @skaycog: You seem familiar...how did you get in here? OK. Deep breath.....There. Much better.
    Thanks, I needed that! #wagoneer
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    10/24/09

    @Old Grimey: Sometimes the "chrome" is almost like thin tin foil, peels off like paper. A Hershey Kiss wrapper has more integrity. #wagoneer
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup
    So sad. There's just something so right about these, the '73-'91 Suburban and the last-gen International Scout Travelall...probably the fact that the spraytanned MILF set has long since moved onto the car-based psuedo-trucks, leaving these pure SUVs for those of us who can appreciate them. #wagoneer
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup
    Amazing how the design was able to continue to sell, and be desirable and aggressively priced, for about thirty years with hardly any change. And then the highly successful Cherokee largely aped the form factor and sold like crazy for more than a decade. #wagoneer
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    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup
    As an owner of a Buick Roadmonster, I would never have thought that anyone would consider woodgrained vinyl siding as being cool. There's a reason why the WB4 option commanded such a premium on the used market ... and why my budget only allowed for one without that option.

    Then again, I wasn't even 30 when I bought the whale, so I guess my tastes are skewed. Now if it was fake carbon fiber vinyl siding ... #wagoneer
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    Maymar promoted this comment narf was starred narf was unstarred
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    10/24/09

    @narf: Woodgrain delete just seems wrong on a Roadmaster (admittedly, it's probably one of the few other vehicles built in the past 20 years that can pull it off). #wagoneer
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    Image of Zeusnemesis Zeusnemesis
    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup
    I love the way AMC kept the same grille underlay sheet-metal since Willy's was making the series. Instead, they just jammed square headlights into the round holes. Very Jalop indeed! #wagoneer
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    10/24/09


    @Zeusnemesis: I never realized that the original front end of the Wagoneer lay undisturbed behind all those subsequent facelifts. It wouldn't be hard to convert a late Wagoneer back to the "tombstone-grille" original, which to me is the best looking of them all. #wagoneer
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    10/24/09

    @tonyola: They did this on the "Trucks" show on Spike TV (yeah, I watched it, don't judge). They only had to cut off the existing bezel tabs where everything screwed/bolted on, and weld on new ones. #wagoneer
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/24/09

    @LTDScott's work is getting in the way of Jaloptime: I won't judge you. There's that lull here on the east coast between 11 am and 12:30 or so on the weekends--what else ya gonna do?
    And these were such handsome beasts. "Honest about their truckness" indeed. Now they're all poseurs. #wagoneer
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10/24/09

    @Novaload: Even new trucks pose. My late model Ram 4x4 has so much plastic up front, you'd think Pam Anderson's surgeon built it. #wagoneer
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    10/24/09

    @Alfisted: But if you hit something, y0u'll just bounce right off, right? Dual airbags. #wagoneer
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    Image of mobilene mobilene
    10/24/09

    @tonyola: I was astonished to see the original front end there, too! And props on the photo of the original two-door configuration. #wagoneer
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    10/24/09


    @mobilene: I didn't even realize I'd posted a picture of the two-door until you pointed it out. I was concentrating on getting a good photo of the grille. The two-doors are rare enough, but when was the last time you saw a Jeep Panel Delivery? #wagoneer
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    Image of mobilene mobilene
    10/24/09

    @tonyola: Didn't know they even made these in a panel delivery! #wagoneer
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    Image of Xelmon Xelmon
    10/25/09

    @tonyola:
    That looks like shit... :P #wagoneer
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup
    Sad seeing 'em 86 this '86. #wagoneer
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    Image of souldoubt88 souldoubt88
    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup
    CANYONERO!!! #wagoneer
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    10/24/09

    @souldoubt88: 12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
    65 tons of American pride! #wagoneer
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup
    "Simu-wood?" Wow. #wagoneer
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    10/24/09

    In reply to One Of The Last AMC-Built Grand Wagoneers Heads To The Last Roundup
    Wow, a bona-fide Grand Wagoneer.

    This particular truck should have
    had a Cummins I6 dropped in it and a plow blade installed. A comfy snow plow with unlimited longevity

    IIRC, the woodgrain carried over to the Grand Cherokee for at least one year. It never looked "right", though.

    Solid axles, FTW!
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    Image of PHIL PHIL
    10/24/09

    @send lawyers, guns, and money: Yes, there was a Grand Wagoneer badged Grand Cherokee for 1993 and 94 I think, it came with the 5.2 V8 std, woodgrain and pillow leather seats. Remember there were also regular "Wagoneer" versions of the little Cherokee with woodgrain on the sides too. #wagoneer
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    send lawyers, guns, and money promoted this comment PHIL was starred PHIL was unstarred
    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    10/24/09

    @PHIL: Bingo. That's it.

    I was being brainwashed during a Town Hall "meeting" this morning, so I wasn't on my automobile historical trivia game.

    These so-called meetings, they're really sales pitches, brings out the weirdos on both sides.

    I had a '94 Limited w/the 318, and the pillow-top seats were shockingly comfy for both long-distance and off-road. Honestly, the Quadra-Trac, with no mods other than BFG A/T's, never stranded me, and I treated it like the Jeep it was.

    The baby Wagoneer was indeed the Cherokee, and they didn't sell many at all. #wagoneer
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    Image of PHIL PHIL
    10/24/09

    @send lawyers, guns, and money: There were a couple of variations of names in the Jeep line up, I remember when there was a "regular" Wagoneer, then the Grand Wagoneer and a Grand Wagoneer Limited(which was the woodgrained one), and of course the full-size Cherokee had the same things, there was a Chief, Chief S, Pioneer, Laredo,Limited, etc, there were Eagle Limiteds too....I remember my friends mom had a rocking 2 door Orange 79 or so, Cherokee Chief when I was a kid.
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    Image of PhineasNumshun PhineasNumshun
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    Funny enough that I did realize it converts to 6.3 but the naming scheme of that era of car would dictate 383 being the more seemingly appropriate (we were planning on badging the car as a 383E) it was not until the W124 E60 that the naming schemes started changing and if you ever see the car, it desperately tries to hide power.

    http://lovelyschool.net/carsandcoffee/main.php/v/xapexi_002/Cars+and+Coffee+12-27-2008_125.jpg.html

    (It has different headlights now)
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    dr.chophoppers coz mr. wont cut it promoted this comment Murilee Martin approved this comment PhineasNumshun was starred PhineasNumshun was unstarred
    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    09/22/09

    @PhineasNumshun: 630E. Simple as that. And all you need is one 300E 2.6 badge to cannibalize.
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    Image of Spinnetti Spinnetti
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    Prepare to meet your Nemesis! (I hope)... My LS400 is still an auto, but I hope I can bring you a good fight next year (our Celica was just .5 sec faster on fast lap, but we raced pretty close on Sunday). Anybody know anybody to do a cheap cage near Cinci Oh?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    Awesome job on the top. So the theme is "Son of a Blitzen 722"? We should help them think of something better better because of course this bent Bentz will be back.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    09/20/09

    @Novaload: I'm thinking German taxi or German cop car. Die Gebrüder Blues has a nice ring to it...

    Sie sind auf einer Mission von Gott.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    09/20/09

    @Novaload: You don't need a theme when the car itself is this great.
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