Kaiser Jeep launched the Wagoneer in November 1962 as the first four-wheel-drive station wagon with car-like comfort: independent front suspension and an automatic gearbox were offered, and the 230 cu in Tornado was the first overhead-cam engine in an American production vehicle. The Gladiator pick-up shared the front end on 120 and 126-inch wheelbases; the military M715 of 1967–69 was a Gladiator with a 230 Tornado and 1¼-ton rating.
American Motors bought Kaiser Jeep in 1970 and fitted its 258 six and 360 and 401 V8s; Quadra-Trac full-time four-wheel drive arrived in 1973 and the two-door Cherokee in 1974. When the compact XJ took the Cherokee and Wagoneer names in 1984, the SJ became the Grand Wagoneer, built with wood-grain sides until 1991 — twenty-nine model years on one body at the Toledo Stickney plant.
Kaiser Jeep: Wagoneer and Gladiator (1963–1970)
2 VEHICLES IN THIS CHAPTERThe Tornado six (140 hp), from 1965 the AMC 327 V8 and from 1968 the Buick 350 Dauntless; two and four-door Wagoneers and the J-200 and J-300 Gladiator trucks. The M715 and M725 ambulance were built for the US Army from 1967 to 1969, about 33,000 of them.
Registry records · chapter 1
AMC: Quadra-Trac and the Cherokee (1970–1983)
3 VEHICLES IN THIS CHAPTERAMC engines from 1972, Quadra-Trac from 1973 and the two-door Cherokee of 1974 with its Chief wide-track package. The J-10 and J-20 trucks replaced the Gladiator name in 1971 and ran until 1988.
Registry records · chapter 2
Grand Wagoneer (1984–1991)
1 VEHICLE IN THIS CHAPTERThe SJ Wagoneer became the Grand Wagoneer in 1984 with the 360 V8, leather and wood-grain vinyl, at 14,000–20,000 a year; Chrysler ended it in 1991 after the last J-trucks of 1988.
Registry records · chapter 3
Base models
The structural configurations the registry and the Creator build from; each page carries the researched specification.Sources
- Jeep Wagoneer (SJ) — Wikipedia
- Jeep Gladiator (SJ) — Wikipedia
- Kaiser Jeep M715 — Wikipedia