Junkyard Find: 1975 Jeep J10 Pickup
July 12th, 2012 11:04 AM
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This being Colorado, I see many old Jeeps in my local self-service wrecking yards. Just about all of them are Cherokees and Wagoneers, so this four-wheel-drive pickup caught my attention earlier this week.
There must be somebody looking for a rugged AMC 360 V8 for a project car or truck. Right?
And a factory 4-on-the-floor manual transmission!
The J10 name wasn’t as cool as the Gladiator name that went on big Jeep pickups until 1970, but it was less import-sounding than the J2000 name used in the early 1970s.
Here’s a fine example of industrial-grade vehicle upholstery. Sweaty, sticky vinyl.
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Here’s a dealer training film for the ’73 version of this truck. Note the driver smoking a pipe while off-roading with a load of hay.
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A very nice find there MM. Love this color as I have a thing for this greenish yellow, generically called Chartreuse. Looking at the photos you took, either there is something behind the seat back in this one pushing the seatback forward a bit, it looks mighty uncomfortable due to the overly upright seatback. Looks to be a reasonably decent shape for the most part, even the interior looks to be intact and I love the old Audiovox cassette deck that has FF/Eject only, and no station presets on a sliding dial tuner. How quaint...
I daily drive an '89 Grand Wagoneer that I would love to see in the condition that this much older J10 looks like it is still in. That said, I would love to get my mitts on that hood and (still salvageable) grille...