History of CJ Jeeps Civilian Jeep or commonly known as CJ Jeeps was first conceived by Willys as a military truck during WW II (1941

to 1954). The first CJ Jeeps prototype was introduced in 1944 with a total of seven variant starting with CJ-2 Thereafter, it has undergone several production versions such as the CJ-3, CJ-4. In 1953, Willys Overland was sold to The Kaiser Company and it was not until the year 1954, that the longest running production model of CJ5 Jeeps was produced for the next 3 decades. A total of 603,303 CJ5 were built until the year 1983! Another version of the Civilian Jeep is the CJ-6 that proved unpopular. It was available in the market from 1956 with a total of 50,172 produced until 1975. CJ-6 has a 20-inch longer wheelbase compared with the CJ5 Jeeps. During that period, several variant of the CJ5 were produced. Notably, the earlier version of CJ 5 has Willys Hurricane Engine while an additional model built in 1965 onwards was supplemented with GM built, Buick 225 cu. in. V6 155 h.p. engine. In 1970, Kaiser Jeep was sold to American Motor Corporation and by 1971, all CJ5 Jeeps switched to AMC own straight six-cylinder engines as well as V8 engines. AMC then started building CJ7 Jeeps in 1976 until production ended in 1986. CJ7 Jeeps was built with a slightly longer wheel base than the CJ5 and a total of 379,299 were produced during the period. The engine variants produced by AMC comes in 2.5L, 3.8L, 4.2L and 5.0L (V8 version). The CJ8 was manufactured between 1981 until 1985 and offering a 103 inch wheelbase 27,792 was ever built. It was also known as the Jeep Scrambler (CJ-8) with either a 4 or 5-speed manual transmission or a 3-speed auto-transmission option. The vehicle was built as a pick-up with soft and hard-top version.