Jeep Cowboy

Nov 19, 2003 3 Replies

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Fletcher 22 years ago

Been lots of talk about Jeeps around here, but who know anything about the Jeep Cowboy? Below is a link to a photo and a page with more info. Anyone seen one of these? The locals are doing a "4x4 Thanksgiving Food Drive", which is a way to give to the community and donate food to the local food bank. But one of the guys claims that there will be a Jeep Cowboy there. Anyone know about these? Were they every in production or just prototype? If they were made what years and what other info do you know about these?

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( kind of a coolsite with other AMC cars)

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SP Cook 22 years ago

The Cowboy was a prototype. It was an "El Camino-ized" AMC Hornet. It was done in 1972, because the AMC plant was running at well below capacity. It was never put into production, and AFAIK only 3 hand-builts were made for car shows. AMC landed a big government contract for cars in 1974 and killed the project.

Another cool Jeep prototype that never got built is that Chrysler had a Jeep-esque grille and other styling cues on a Dodge Caravan, to be called the Jeep Comando. This was to give the struggling Eagle division a van. Chrysler decided to kill Eagle insted.

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Bubba Kahuna 22 years ago

It's a ... Horn-chero?!

LOL! - Jeff G

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Tomes 22 years ago

I looked at this and said "that's a Gremlin!". Turns out it was. the Gremlin....my very first car.... Tomes

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