4×4S.ORGTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 1985–86
NAMED MODELSpecial · GPO/MailUnited States

CJ-8 Alaska Postal.

The last Scramblers: about 230 right-hand-drive CJ-8s with the full steel hard top built in 1985–86 for the United States Postal Service in Alaska.

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Sources & evidence
BASE VEHICLEJeep CJ-8 ScramblerBUILT BYAmerican Motors Corporation (Jeep Corporation)IN SERVICE1985–86OPERATED INUnited StatesPRODUCTIONAbout 230LAYOUT4 wheels · 103″

The record

The Postal Service ordered right-hand-drive Scramblers with the Overlander’s full hard top, an automatic gearbox and the 258 six for rural routes in Alaska; roughly 230 were built as the CJ-8 ended in 1986, making them the rarest production CJ-8s.

Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.

Specification

MANUFACTURED1985–86
ENGINEAMC 258 six, automatic
PRODUCTION RUNAbout 230
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited States
OPERATED INUnited States
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINECJ
FAMILYCJ
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE103″
CATEGORYSpecial · GPO/Mail

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Variants & colours

Base model variants

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Sources

  1. 1Jeep CJ ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-22SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-22 · status: draft