How many bare bones cj7s were made?

[One1]

I’ve been told since the Renegade , Laredo , etc packages were popular and Jeep liked to sell well optioned vehicles...... bare bones jeeps were scarce.

For example, my 82 came without clock, tach, and has no power brakes, no hard top, no hard doors, no AC, no dash pad, no tow package, no interior trim in any way. Just a T-5 , AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l , and 2.72s.

The firewall plate confirms it had nothing. I think the DJ was probably more equipped, lol.

 

[Belizean]

I have 1. It did have a dash pad.

 

[Scout1067]

I’ve been told since the Renegade , Laredo , etc packages were popular and Jeep liked to sell well optioned vehicles...... bare bones jeeps were scarce.

For example, my 82 came without clock, tach, and has no power brakes, no hard top, no hard doors, no AC, no dash pad, no tow package, no interior trim in any way. Just a T-5 , AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l , and 2.72s.

The firewall plate confirms it had nothing. I think the DJ was probably more equipped, lol.

I found a site that says 379,299 CJ7 's were produced overall: https://www.jeepfan.com/tech/prod-numbers.htm
I can't find any information on numbers by sub model though

 

[jp360cj]

I’ve been told since the Renegade , Laredo , etc packages were popular and Jeep liked to sell well optioned vehicles...... bare bones jeeps were scarce.

For example, my 82 came without clock, tach, and has no power brakes, no hard top, no hard doors, no AC, no dash pad, no tow package, no interior trim in any way. Just a T-5 , AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l , and 2.72s.

The firewall plate confirms it had nothing. I think the DJ was probably more equipped, lol.

Sounds like most CJs I've seen. Just curious, what on the firewall plate confirms what options it had?

 

[One1]

Sounds like most CJs I've seen. Just curious, what on the firewall plate confirms what options it had?

The options are part of how the tag is structured. Google how to read the plate and it will tell you which section has option codes. If it is blank, there were no options. For instance, 5EB tells me i had vinyl nutmeg seats.

https://www.jeep-cj.com/forums/f49/cj-7-factory-option-firewall-tag-23198/

This link is also helpful.

 

[cpadget]

The tag on the firewall only tells us the seat type, paint color, engine, and Transmission . There is no way to identify what trim package you had based on the firewall tag. Some of the trim packages were fairly consistent; Laredo ’s came with leather wrapped grab handles for instance, and that was always the case. Renegades were a bit more inconsistent in what they were equipped with, in the later years anyway.

 

[One1]

well that’s exactly the point. Based on your seats and trim you knew about what you were getting package wise. The rest of the clues are standing in front of you. In my case, it was nothing.

 

[cpadget]

So in my case, I knew, because I was in the Jeep when my dad drove it off the lot, that my Jeep came loaded with high back seats, AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l , T-5 , tach, clock, the panels under the doors, Black inlay around the gauges, air conditioning, ashtray, light under the hood, and carpet This was basically loaded with the exception of the leather wrapped grab bar, and sunroof in the hard top. Mine was a base model, not a Renegade even though it had everything a Renegade would have in 1983. From that standpoint, a sticker pack would have deemed it a Renegade . That’s what I meant by the inconsistencies.

 

[One1]

Gone are the days. Such a shame. Dodge just barcodes a few packages and sells the rest at the point of sale. AMC used to make surprise options shipping jeeps, you never knew what was going to be on the lot. Difference being how it arrived on the lot, VS what you paid to have added.

Anywho, point of the thread was AMC liked to option their jeeps, as evidenced above. Several magazines I’ve read like petersons and hagerty have all said bare jeeps were more rare. I don’t think it’s any more special, just more rare since AMC preferred to sell optioned jeeps

 

[One1]

On a random note check out that split bench seat. THat's a rare option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0gQD-vPQK0&frags=pl,wn

 

[Belizean]

On a random note check out that split bench seat. THat's a rare option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0gQD-vPQK0&frags=pl,wn

Nice looking. The only problem is that bench eats up space that is already almost nonexistent in that jeep. Very well built jeep though