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Hemmings Find of the Day: Wagoneeeeeeeer

1987 Jeep Grand Wagoneer limousine

What we love about this 1987 Jeep Grand Wagoneer is not that it’s stretched by several feet, nor that it’s actually a functioning limousine, it’s that it was done rather tastefully (we’ll grant the directional billet wheels): It looks like if AMC, in its last throes as a functioning company, built one of their junior executives an awesome bachelor party rig. Back in Time Classics of Commerge, Georgia, which is selling the Wagoneeeeeeeer for $24,900, describes it as thus:

1987 jeep grand wagoneer stretched limo, with only 43,267 miles, with a 360 motor, and automatic transmission, and four wheel drive, front and rear air, black out side, and has a beige interior, power steering, power disc brakes, power windows, tilt, cruse, power door locks, power seats, privacy window, wet bar, tv, vc, stereo, sun roof, and the list goes on, this is the top of the line model, with all the bells and whistles, even has the wood grain, it runs and drives as new, the paint and interior looks as new, if you dare to be different here it is.

If anybody knows which coachbuilder is responsible for this, let us know in the comments!



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A little bit country – Crosleys embrace farm theme

Crosley wagon at Crosley nats

I know I missed a lot by not attending the Crosley Auto Club’s national meet a couple weeks ago, but the photos that club webmaster Jim Bollman has posted to the club’s website helped a little with filling me in on the happenings. One microtheme I noticed in the photos was a tendency to mix Crosleys into a farming theme. Does it come from the fact that Crosleys are often found in barns nowadays, as the wagon above displays?

"bran-fresh" Crosley

"barn-fresh" Crosley

farm-use Crosley

Or maybe it’s because Crosleys hail from Ohio, up there in the grain belt?

Crosley Deere

Crosley Deere

Or maybe it’s just because Crosley people are a little off-kilter?



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Scrapheap, or, you can’t save them all

traveling scrapheap

Johnny B. Goode recently found the above photo over at the Stayin’ Safe motorcycle blog, with the author complaining about how much of a hazard such a situation creates for bikers. We agree, and we also mourn the loss of a few good parts in this North Carolinan’s scrap drive.

41-48 Ford steering wheel

That steering wheel’s from a 1941-1948 Ford.

24-stud flathead

And that’s a flathead Ford V-8 of what appears to be the 24-stud variety, used in 1938-1948 Ford and 1939-1948 Mercuries. And an open driveline instead of a torque tube.

Ford banjo rear axle

The open driveline would lead one to presume the axle is also one of the highly sought after 1942 to 1948 pickup banjo axles, though we can only see the rear of the center section.

So it looks like our Tarheel trucker fit a pickup into a pickup. Hope he got good money for his scrap pile.



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Morning, woodie

Campbell-bodied 1942 Plymouth Deluxe woodie

We never know what we’ll see in the Hemmings parking lot, and one recent morning was no exception. Josh Recave of Falmouth, Massachusetts, stopped by on his way to a woodie gathering in Waterloo, New York, hauling his Campbell-bodied 1942 Plymouth Deluxe woodie station wagon. Josh knows it’s a rather rare bird, and he said he’d like to finish the restoration some day (the wood was redone in 1992), but we think it’s great, Driveable Dream material as is. In fact, we may just shoot it for HCC, so keep your eyes peeled there for more of the woodie.

Campbell-bodied 1942 Plymouth Deluxe woodie

Campbell-bodied 1942 Plymouth Deluxe woodie

Campbell-bodied 1942 Plymouth Deluxe woodie



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