Even though the DJ Jeep was two-wheel-drive, Coloradans must really love them. I see DJ-5 “Mail Jeeps” in Denver-area wrecking yards all the time (for example, this ’82 and this ’72). I’ve mostly stopped photographing them for this series, because how much can anyone say about the steel box on wheels that delivered our mail for much of the 1970s? However, a Jeep with a factory-installed Audi engine is interesting, so here we go. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1970s, 1979, 1979 Jeep DJ-5, AM General, amc, Audi, Denver, DJ-5, Down On The Junkyard, Jeep, Jeep DJ, Jeep DJ-5, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Mail Jeep, Malaise Era
Tagged as 1970s, 1979, 1979 Jeep DJ-5, AM General, amc, Audi, Denver, DJ-5, Down On The Junkyard, Jeep, Jeep DJ, Jeep DJ-5, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Mail Jeep, Malaise Era
AMC got a (brief) new lease on life in the early 1980s when the French government, via Renault, invested in the staggering Wisconsin car company. Meanwhile, huge purchases of DJ-5s by the US Postal Service also helped prop up the once-proud automaker. The 
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