Vehicle Description
West Coast Classics are proud to present a very desirable 1973
American Motors Jeep 4WD V8 'CJ5' model with reportedly only one
long time family owner since new and with original factory options
including a 4 speed manual transmission and 2-speed transfer case,
bikini top with soft doors.This is a 1973 year LHD 3 speed CJ5
model built in Toledo with a 3,750 lbs GVW and open body with the
304 V8 engine. It is presented in its original solid 'Copper Tan
Metallic' (code 517) factory color with Black bucket seats (code
422). Voted as none less than the #2 of the "9 Hottest Collectible
Cars Right Now for 2018" by none less than the 'Hagerty Bull Market
List' for 2018, with two-thirds of quotes that are requested from
Hagerty coming from Gen X and Millennials. This interest from those
younger generations means it stands to do well, as those are the
collectors who are actively growing their collections.After
remaining in production through a range of model numbers, and
several corporate parents, the Jeep CJ line was officially ended in
1986. More than 1.5 million CJ Jeeps were built, having continued
the same basic body style for 45 years since the Jeep first
appeared. The Jeep CJ series of 1976-86 has the imprint 'Since
1941' somewhere in the interior, although Willys-Overland had not
officially been granted the Jeep trademark until 1950, well after
the company had already developed a good business selling civilian
versions of the wartime Jeep. Probably the smartest thing American
Motors president Roy Chapin ever did was acquire Kaiser-Jeep
Corporation in 1970. In 1976 the CJ-7 appeared as basically a
stretched CJ-5 to compete with a growing assortment of rivals,
fitted with the first factory-equipped hard top and steel doors
among its upgrades. It would carry the CJ line for the next 11
years, right through AMCs merger first with Renault, then with
Chrysler.Even after 30 years of CJ development, you do not have to
squint too hard to see the old hero of Normandy and Guadalcanal in
the CJ's sheetmetal. But if the design still looked inspired by
cardboard shipping boxes, even so, with the top and doors removed,
the windscreen folded, and the CJ-5 put the wind in your face and
bugs in your teeth just the way its predecessors had been doing
since 1945!
