Junkyard Find: 1976 Jeep Wagoneer

Since Willys/Kaiser/Jeep/AMC/Chrysler built the Wagoneer from Biblical times until ten minutes ago (actually 1963 through 1991), and I live in Jeep-centric Colorado, I see these things just about every time I visit a wrecking yard. Mostly, I don’t photograph them (unless I see an unusually late example, such as this ’89, or one resplendent in purple paint and tape stripes, like this ’81), but today’s Junkyard Find— spotted in a San Francisco Bay Area self-serve yard a few weeks ago— was just so incredibly Malaise-y that I felt compelled to document it in its final parking space.

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  • Kwik_Shift_Pro4X GM is dead to me. Until I rebuy a '96 Chevy Impala SS or '87 Buick Grand National.
  • MaintenanceCosts I was last in the RenCen way back in 2011, when a friend of mine got married there. Even at the time, the place seemed very underused.Footnote: I drove a GM product from Washington DC to that wedding and back. It did not get me any apparent special treatment.
  • Jeff I doubt most people care. Care more about their vehicles but after being a loyal gm customer for almost 50 years and having family members all the way back to my grandparents I no longer care. The last gm vehicle I owned was 2 years ago. To me gm can go into the dustbin of history.
  • Cprescott I'm surprised they didn't move to China. That is who bankrolled their bankruptcy bailout plan.
  • Analoggrotto You ask as if I should care. Well I don't. Any more questions?