Jeep Wagoneer (1978) – Into the Wild

Jeep has a relatively large number of enthusiasts in our country, many foreign copies have been brought our way over the years. The Jeep Wagoneer that we have here in front of us is one of them, which came to the Netherlands in 2007. If the small number plates don’t give the layman a clue where this car comes from, then the rest of the Wagoneer will. It really is an American of its time: a large car with lots of chrome parts on it, with a huge (5.9-liter) but not particularly strong (175 hp) V8 as background music.

It becomes more difficult to guess his age. The license plate will not help you (unless you check the data), because this Jeep only got its yellow plates in 2007. The Wagoneer SJ was also a generation that was developed to the last detail with a very long breath. He lasted no less than 28 years. It came on the market as early as 1963 and the curtain only fell in 1991. Yet there are Wagoneers that you can easily recognize as older or newer than the Wagoneer photographed here. Until 1966, the Wagoneer had a very narrow and high grille and double headlights, from 1984 you only had the Grand Wagoneer. In the years in between, it mainly comes down to details to discover the exact year of construction. The undersigned spotted a Wagoneer from 1978, although a license plate check had to be done to discover that year of manufacture.

That license plate check showed something: this Wagoneer has been camping with the same owner for about 15 years. After the import in 2007, the Jeep was with someone else for one year and then it went to its current owner. He certainly does not have to be ashamed of the size of his classic in his street, because less than 10 meters away there was a Skoda Kodiaq in front of the house of one of the neighbors. Believe it or not, it is almost as big as this Wagoneer. The Kodiaq only has a small three-cylinder engine that delivers almost the same power as the 5.9-liter V8 in the Jeep. Times have changed quite a bit, shall we say.