@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
@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
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
Not a good film to watch while hungover. All that beer and booze flashing in and out doesn't appeal one bit right now. Nice blues track, however. #bsinspection
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
Looks like your average, corrupt border crossing to me.
"No, I don't have any fruit. Don't know how that bag of oranges got back there. Hey, it's not such a big supercharger, and we've got this extra bottle of hootch rattling around in the trunk and bothering me. Certainly we can work something out here." #bsinspection
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
@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
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
@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
@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
@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
@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
@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
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
@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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Bite me, Nibbles. #wagoneer
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Why are the hamsters so slow? Nobody's around here today. #wagoneer
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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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Thanks, I needed that! #wagoneer
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"No, I don't have any fruit. Don't know how that bag of oranges got back there. Hey, it's not such a big supercharger, and we've got this extra bottle of hootch rattling around in the trunk and bothering me. Certainly we can work something out here." #bsinspection
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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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@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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And these were such handsome beasts. "Honest about their truckness" indeed. Now they're all poseurs. #wagoneer
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@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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That looks like shit... :P #wagoneer
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65 tons of American pride! #wagoneer
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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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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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Last gen F-bodies, Mustang II, a Gremlin, early Z-cars, Saturns aplenty.
LeMons rocks the casbah. #bsinspection