The Jeep SJ Wagoneer was built for the 1962 Through Model years 1991by Willys Motors, then Kaiser-Jeep, then American Motors, and finally Chrysler. For all but the last few of those years, a pick-up version of the SJ was also produced. Today Jewel of a car graveyard is one of those trucks, a AMC built ¾ ton four wheel drive J-seriesfound in a junkyard in Wyoming with the snow plow attachment still on.
The Equality State gets meme-worthy amounts of snow in winterand four-wheel drive snowplows are very popular there. The blade is missing from this Fisher plough assemblybut we can be sure that it has moved cubic kilometers of the white stuff over its career.
AMC would sell you a factory installed Snow Boss plow system for 1982, on your new J-Series, Wagoneer or CherokeeThe owner of this truck opted for the aftermarket option.
The Jeep SJ pickup started life as the Gladiator, a name recently revived on a Wrangler-based pickupIt then became the J-series until its end in 1988. From 1974 onwards, the ½-ton J’s were designated J-10’s and the ¾-tons J-20’s.
This one was sold new in Denver, about 100 miles south of the Wyoming state line.
There are still Colorado license plates dated 2013 on them, so we can assume the crew worked primarily in the Centennial State.
The American Motors Corporation purchased Jeep in 1970 and dropped the Gladiator name shortly thereafter.
Kaiser Jeep had been Buy AMC engines for his trucks since the mid-1960s (together with 225-cubic-inch Buick V6 engines with Dauntless badging), so it was easy for AMC to continue implementing its powertrain hardware after acquiring Jeep.
This truck features the 360 cubic inch (5.9 liter) AMC pushrod V8, rated at Uncomfortable 150 horsepower and 205 pound-feet for 1982. A 258 cubic inch (3.7 liter) AMC inline six-cylinder was base equipment on the J-10.
The AMC 360 remained in production after Chrysler acquired AMC in 1987, with the last examples being built for the 1991 model year.
The transmission is the basis manual for four on the floor with extra low “granny” first gearA three-speed automatic transmission was available as an option.
The last J-Series pickups were built by Chrysler as the 1988 model year, after which they were discontinued to avoid competing with Dodge pickups.
Go ahead, put a piano in your J-10!
You Jeep truckers just keep driving in the snow, right?
Avoid trashing your date’s front door by trading in your gas tank for a Jeep pickup.