Finally...April 1974 is the month!

It took me a long time to figure this out. Thanks to a new jeep posting on ebay I finally know when my jeep was built.

I would go onto ebay every week and search for "1974 Jeep CJ". For every new one I would look at the pics to see if they had a shot of the dash sticker, when they did I recorded the serial number and month.

Today someone posted a "barn rescued" jeep with the picture I've been waiting for, my serial falls between that one and another in the month of April (mine is 65166). Now I can get an accurate dash decal from Bear Creek.

Here's the results if anyone is interested.

Serial Date

48120 Feb. 1974
50385 Feb. 1974
61110 Apr. 1974
65166 Apr. 1974
65179 Apr. 1974
66307 May. 1974
80679 Jun. 1974
94979 Sep. 1974
95428 Sep. 1974
07233 Oct. 1974 (1975 model year)

 

That's a good idea!

 

It took well over a year...but I know its right.