Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Junkyard Find: 1979 AM General DJ-5G, With Factory Audi Power

Even though the DJ Jeep was two-wheel-drive, Coloradans must really love them. I see DJ-5 "Mail Jeeps" in Denver-area wrecking yards all the time (for example, this '82 and this '72). I've mostly stopped photographing them for this series, because how much can anyone say about the steel box on wheels that delivered our mail for much of the 1970s? However, a Jeep with a factory-installed Audi engine is interesting, so here we go.
You could also get AMC Gremlins and Concords with Audi 2.0 liter engines, which means that Gremlins and Porsche 924s had lots of interchangeable parts (I need to remember this true fact next time I'm yelling at a LeMons miscreant with PCA patches all over his race suit). The one-year-only Audi-engined Jeep may be the rarest of all the Audi-fied AMCS, though.
To go with the mighty 95 horses of the Audi engine, the DJ-5G came with a Chrysler Torqueflite 904 automatic transmission.
As iron became rust in this Jeep, the lost mass was replaced by rodent nests. The interior of Uncle Sam's former mail sled is very hanta-riffic now!
This dash is probably what Audi Designer Hell looks like.

01 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 02 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 03 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 04 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 05 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 07 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 09 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 12 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 13 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 14 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 15 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 16 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 17 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 18 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 19 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 20 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 21 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 22 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 23 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 24 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 25 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 26 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 27 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 01 - 1979 AM General DJ-5 Mail Jeep Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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