Via Hemmings comes one of the better SEMA show announcements for this year. Amongst all the big-bucks OEM displays and booths hawking 87-inch rims for your '87 Monte Carlo will be a genuine Jeep rarity: a 1973 Super Jeep.
The model's backstory is interesting. Back then, Jeep wasn't prepared for the popularity of its CJ-5 Renegade models, and supplies of the aluminum wheels that were part of that package were tight, given the demand.
To work around this and offer a Renegade-spec CJ that didn't have those wheels, the Super Jeep was created. It had two-tone seats, a curved front bumper, a typically '70s graphics package, and, most important, Jeep's standard steel wheels. Hemmings posted actual ad art, which is amazing:
Only a few hundred were ever produced (it was a '73-only thing), and since the graphics packages are readily available now, authentic, non-clone models are hard to come by. Enter Jeep accessories maker Omix-ADA, which found a real one, bought it, and has restored it to correct spec.
That Super Jeep, along with some other CJs from their awesome Jeep collection (that website is a must-visit, by the way), will hit the floor at SEMA next month.
It might just be cooler than the Jeeps on display at the actual Jeep booth. Go figure.
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This story originally appeared on roadandtrack.com via Hemmings, JeepCollection.com.
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