A Jeep J-Series/Gladiator Pickup Truck (which the SJ Cherokee/Wagoneer/Grand Wagoneer had always been based on) located in the Town of Chesterhill, Ohio.

Sadly, this Truck appears to be in very rough condition, has rusted out, and this Truck also appears to have been left to rot away.

Upon Chrysler’s purchase of AMC and Jeep in 1987, Chrysler had immediately discontinued the J-Series/Gladiator Pickup Truck, while its only remaining SUV sibling in production by that time, the Grand Wagoneer; would remain in production for four more years, until the end of the 1991 model year.

As Chrysler and Jeep Engineer Bob Sheaves had put it, “we’ve discontinued all vehicles that were designed by Kaiser Jeep by 1992”, meaning that the CJ-5, J-Series/Gladiator Pickup Truck, and the SJ Cherokee/Wagoneer/Grand Wagoneer were all discontinued by 1992, only the AMC and Renault-designed XJ Cherokee and Wagoneer SUV and the related MJ Comanche Pickup Truck were in production by 1992, the YJ Wrangler (also designed by AMC with input from Renault) was also in production by 1992, the MJ Comanche was discontinued after 1992, and the ‘Wagoneer’ nameplate, in the interim; would be transferred from the XJ Cherokee to an upmarket version of the ZJ Grand Cherokee after 1992.

Not to mention the fact that after 1988, Chrysler had discontinued the AMC Eagle Passenger Car, which; like the Concord/Hornet, and Gremlin 2-Wheel-Drive Passenger Cars it is derived from, was also a benchmark that both AMC and Renault had used when developing both the XJ Cherokee and the MJ Comanche. Meaning that the Eagle had heavily influenced the development of the XJ and the MJ.

The XJ and MJ’s unibody architecture is very similar to that of the Eagle/Hornet/Concord, and the Gremlin; and the very first application of the Selec-Trac Semi-Full-Time 4-Wheel Drive System (the New Process/New Venture Gear NP119, NP128, NP129. and NP242) was actually the Eagle, before these Transfer Cases eventually made their way into the XJ Cherokee, the ZJ Grand Cherokee, and even later; the WJ Grand Cherokee and the KJ Liberty.