This 1984 Jeep CJ7 is probably one of the cleanest classic Jeeps you will ever see. It has over 100k miles on the odometer, but it doesn’t look like it. It can be found here on eBay with a current bid of $25,500. The seller has a pretty long list of the originality and authenticity of this Jeep. It is located in Las Vegas, but amazingly the ad says the top has never been removed. Take a closer look at this beautiful CJ.
Like the rest of the Jeep, the interior is really clean. The ad states it is original except the front seats were reupholstered along with new carpet. The leather-wrapped steering wheel is original and all the buttons and gauges work. The rear pouches on the roll bar have never been used and the original clock works too!
The 4.2 inline six features a few upgrades like the aftermarket air cleaner. The seller says they have the original manufacturer equipment that goes along with the sale. The engine is backed by a 5-speed transmission. It also features power steering and power brakes, which is nice for handling large off-road tires.
Overall, this is a really nice classic Jeep. Hopefully, it will find a new home where it will be enjoyed for years to come.
If this the nicest Jeep ever it would not have chrome saw blade wheels.
Nor stainless steel windshield and door hinges. Hope he saved the originals.
And chome rear bumberettes.
What makes a car a “classic”? Is it simply age, and preserved-status, or is it something more? The CJ7 was important in AMC’s survival; it was another milestone in the shift from four-wheel-drive work trucks, to recreation-aimed design and use.
Yet, this is only a transitory phase. And, for anyone who’s driven one, not a fully-successful one.
The M38A1’s metamorphis into CJ-5, was, in a day when it could be done, just the sale of a military vehicle to civilian users. Not unlike the HMVV’s transformation into the Hummer…although, in the innocent 1950s, the remarketing could be done on the cheap. It was so done, and gas-station snowplow operators the world over, rejoiced.
As a recreational vehicle, the CJ-5 wasn’t doing it. No weather protection or sound deadening, and a propensity to cartwheel. Nor was the CJ-6 derivative working – proportions were all wrong, and the obligatory canvas top, that much longer.
So…a partial update on the body (and frame) with the CJ7. Obviously it hit a sweet spot…but the deficiencies of the design remained. Anyone who’s driven one can attest…these were problems not addressed until ten years later with the YJ (a much better road vehicle).
A breakthrough? The Missing Link in the SUV evolution? Maybe. AMC, and preceding owners, tried this before…jeep-like styling on a road car. The Willys Station Wagon and Jeepster, and the later Jeepster Commando, also went this route. Both were only partially successful.
But this model, the last mass-market CJ and the most-successful, made it big. Different times? Rejection of fashion-based automobile models…or, devotion to fashion, just a different fashion? I don’t know. I do know that when this Jeep was new, old CJ-5s and CJ-6s, made before the AMC era…could scarcely be given away.
Whoever buys this one will have a fine example. Watch with the carpeting…it will pick up slush off your boots, hold the moisture, and rust the floor right through.
I had an 84 Scrambler Laredo same colors and I bought the full length hardtop for it along with a seat from a CJ-7 the capture nuts are already in place, it rode so much better than my CJ-7
I’d just like to comment for Howard and say this thing is overpriced, the market has gone crazy and that his YJ is a much better vehicle.
Thank you.
lol!
See? I don’t even have to comment anymore, I’ve made such an impression. For the record, I no longer bitxx about the price, a “mooter” point you won’t find, and yes, the YJ is a better vehicle, MUCH better. JustPassinThru^ wrote just about the most accurate description of a CJ. Yes, it very well may be the nicest, but truth be told, as mentioned, the CJ5 was on its last legs. There were so many better 4x4s, Jeep was clearly resting on its laurels. Only the dedicated bought a CJ5, everybody else went with the Toyota. Roll overs, unrestrained people flying out of them, its days were numbered. While Chrysler is credited with the YJ, I read, it was actually one of the last things AMC did for the Jeep. It’s a nice find, but 1 drive in a YJ will tell you exactly what this truck is missing. It worked for me.
And chrome rear bumberettes.
SOLD for $25,100.
Everything seems to 25K lately.
Had a 1980 CJ Golden Eagle fully loaded paid 22,500.00 ..
After 60 minutes aired that they flip over I sold it with 20K miles for 10k …
Everything is worth what someone is willing to pay…
I don’t know, Daisy Duke put a Golden Eagle through its paces and never rolled,,that we saw on camera, anyways. She was hot!
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Winning bid:US $25,100.00[ 54 bids ]