Canadian CJ5 Info

Derek Redmond of the CJ3B page sent me some updates to his site where he's written an article about Canadian Jeeps.

http://www.film.queensu.ca/CJ3B/Canada/CanadaCJ5.html

He has apparently interviewed a '74 (or something like that) yr old man who worked at the plant the whole time it was in operation.

The guy writes that as long as he was in Canada there were no jeeps produced with the V6s.

I'm curious about this since mine is a Canadian made jeep and it's got the V6.

The guy says mine must have been swapped in...but then again in the same article Derek has a copy of a Canadian newspaper which shows the picture of one of the last 12 made in Canada and the article says that the jeep in the picture has a V6 in it.

http://www.film.queensu.ca/CJ3B/Canada/CanadaKaiser.html

The jeep in the picture has a black stripe on the hood and 8" KH wheels and a chrome front bumper. Mine had all that when I got it.
And it was made in Canada and it has a V6 in it even though the older gent says there were never any V6's installed in Canada.

I'm convinced now that I have the jeep that is in that picture. R)

 

maybe kaiser was having problems importing the :hurrican: ???
or they wanted more power to boost image?????

 

John, I had a '69 Canadian build w/ a factory V-6. I'm shure its was not a conversion.

 

He could have quit before the V6 was introduced. ??

Me too. The Canadian rig I owned last year also had the 225 in it. Hmmm. :?

Diffo V6? The article mentiones that each of the last 12 had "152-horsepower V-6 engines"
I don't know of any 152-HP V6s, unless they might have had smog equip on 'em .

Maybe! That'd be great. I really thought I had one of the last ones off the lot........s/n 8305C17 352833.

 

I think that the fellow was not remembering correctly.

Generally there was an 017 or 018 in the serial number to indicate a factory V-6

for example, 8305 017 xxxxxx

018 would be the smogged up version.

For the jeeps made in Canada the number would have been C17 instead of 017.

On the late model Canadians on the 3B page -- didn't they have serial numbers noted with them?

Back in 66 when the V6 first came out the indicator was an A which changed to 017/C17 in 68.

 

maybe hp @ rear wheels??????

 

I was kidding about me having the one in the pic. The one in the pic has large clear front signals and I have small amber dome lenses.

But still I thought the article from the old guy was pretty cool.

Although I agree,...I think he got his wires crossed since AMC didn't officially start till '70 (I think). And there were even some '70s that were still Kaiser (I think).

 

AMC bought Jeep in Feb 1970.... so late manufactured 70's are AMC, didnt make any changes to the 70 mid-production year, but did for 71. All 71's are AMC... 72 was the first year of the new longer Jeep with the I-6 and V-8. My fathers 70 was built in 69 in Canada, has the V-6 from the factory, and the C17 in the vin.

 

The '68 V6 CJ5 I purchased last winter out of AZ was factory built in Canada and has the C17 in the VIN as well.

 

add me to the list of canadian v6s.

chris

 

Jeepnut, I doubt very seriously that AMC made any changes to the 71 model year Jeeps, I work for a company that builds auto parts for alot of the US and foreign car companies and I can tell you that AMC would not have been able to make even the subtle changes to the Jeep that were made on the 71's in the short period of time between Feb 1970 and Aug , Sept of 1970 for the 1971 production models, all of these changes I would bet money were already on the board at Kaiser as the tooling and prints would have taken around 10-20 months to implement, the rear fuel tank was already a federal mandate.

As an example we were quoting parts and tooling for the H3 Hummer 1 1/2 years ago and there not due out until 2006 model year.

 

My Windsor Ontario built 66 also originally came with a V6 according to the VIN #

 

Not me. I figured he trusted his info from the old man he interviewed and didn't want to burst his bubble.

Then again now that I think about it, I spect he'd be interested in it. He does host an article about Canadian CJ's.