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1969 Jeep DJ $1,850 Osgood, IN
Or I listed this as a DJ, happy to update what this actually is here! Always appreciate the help. I actually like the yellow paint it looks well done back when it was put on, the original blue in the engine bay. This looks fairly solid.
Information from seller:
sliding door work not completely sure on year or if runs nver tried floors are soild has jeep motor …
https://www.facebook.com/share/1CcjzVKUxh/
1975 Mail Jeep $1,400 Salem, NY
Not a “Willys” but it looked like a fun one to post up.
Information from seller:
Runs great automatic transmission great brakes great need some new wiring done gas tank good no leaks needs to be cleaned it’s a fun jeep to drive 4.0 motor.
https://www.facebook.com/share/12JsatyGfzE/
1974 Jeep DJ5 Mail Jeep $4,250 Hickory, NC
Might be better then that Monster Truck on the Military Frame to run down the lane and get the Mail in this!
Information from seller:
1974 Jeep DJ5 Retired Mail Jeep Right hand drive. Runs good and drives as a 1974 right hand drive Mail Jeep should drive. New brakes all the way around, just tuned up. Has the 232 AMC in line 6. Needs nothing to drive down the road. I have to many projects and don’t need this thing sitting around and getting ruined. Come and check it out $4250 or best offer. Will entertain trades but
(Cliff hanger on that “Will entertain trades but….)
https://www.facebook.com/share/16KNVnzS3W/
UPDATE: eBay has a rare color photographic slide depicting a DJ-5 Gala/Surrey like the one shown in the Hawaii ad at the bottom.
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Originally Published May 21, 2020: During the late 1960s, a couple different Jeep dealers in Hawaii offered DJ-5 Jeep Galas for sale. There were at least two different styles of ads published. The Gala was a Surrey that was sold by the export arm of the company.
In 1967, a Kaiser-Jeep dealership owned by Von Hamm-Young Mercantile, flew the 1968 model of the DJ-5 Gala Jeep to Hawaii. From the story below, it would seem that this may have been the first example of a DJ-5 Gala Jeep arriving in Hawaii. Note that the photo’s caption only describes this jeep as a Gala.
Over the next two years, the dealer published ads hoping to spur sales. We’ll likely never know how successful sales were, but I’d suspect not too many were sold.
1) The first ad appeared between April and September of 1968. The example shown below was published in the May 30, 1968, issue of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. There are a variety of things that struck me with this ad. First, it’s the first ad I’ve seen for a DJ-5 Surrey/Gala. Second, it is advertised as a “Surrey Gala”, rather than one or the other. Third, it came in six different color schemes. Fourth, later in the year (specifically September 24th in the Hawaii Tribune Herald), Big Island Rambler was the dealer name at the bottom of the ad, with no specific link made to Von Hamm-Young.
Apart from all those points, it’s generally just an odd ad for a vehicle!
2) This ad appeared multiple times, but only during April of 1969 (I could find no other ads for any other month in 1969), isn’t quite as odd as the 1968 campaign. The ad also doesn’t mention the multiple package options. This particular example was published in the April 4th, 1969, issue of the Honolulu Advertiser.
UPDATE: Bill shared this article about the DJ-5Es, the electric postal jeep.
https://carbuzz.com/forgotten-jeep-first-electric-fleet-vehicle/
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Originally posted January 21, 2020: Thanks to Gayland for sending me this brochure of the Electruck, an electric powered DJ-5E made by AM General.
These images were from an eBay auction in 2015:
This is supposed to run and drive. Blaine spotted it.
https://denver.craigslist.org/pts/d/arvada-1982-dj5-postal-jeep/7771236341.html
“For sale is this 1982 DJ-5 postal jeep built by AM General. it has been in storage for quite a few years. Has a factory, GM, iron duke, four-cylinder engine, automatic transmission. Right hand drive.
Engine runs good, no smoke. Transmission and brakes work. It currently has an electric fuel pump hooked up temporary because the factory fuel pump is not working.
Includes a lot of parts. Extra doors, seats, hood and more.
Hard to find. Most of these were scrapped directly from service.
Clear title
No test drives off of the property.”
Jerry Huber shared this unusually modified DJ-5. It’s now a draught jeep, modified by and for Tapped 419, which provides draft beer (or root beer) for parties via a Fire Truck and now a DJ-5.
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was $2500.
Roger Martin shared these three postal jeep projects (or parts).
“3 postal jeeps that I’ve totally lost interest in 2 are titled in my name the other one was never titled the shadybowl one I have driven new floors doors working new brakes and tires all the way around had lots of engine and transmission troubles after all the frame off bodywork. One thing after another and now it’s time to sell them extra doors parts one without the cab has a good 2.5 and transmission but I’m getting busy so it’s time someone else takes over”
This might be a solid DJ-5.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1235928200704293
“Old mail jeep, runs and drives. Rebuilt carb, doors work, and everything else as well. Good tags and title”
Gayland shared these photos showing the military DJ-5s offered by AMC in the early 1970s. Time has tinted the images. The “brown” Army jeeps are actually OD green for the Army, while the Navy “white” jeeps may actually be haze gray.
US Army Jeep Photo:
US Navy Jeep Photo:
Rest of US Army photos:
