89 MJ

I have a slider. I don’t remember for sure if I used my slider one or the solid rear window one. My truck originally had the solid window.

The rear window trim/seal/molding, whatever you prefer to call it in my MJ had a small tear in it when we installed it and when it storms hard, I was starting to get water in the cab towards the end of summer, so I am ISO the rear rubber piece around the rear window for my truck. I do not need or want the whole back glass.

Nice MJ and I’m envious of the 3/4 ton Yukon!

It’s going to look great! Chrome 10 slots are the best.

They are. Especially considering that Chevy cars were all wood structured until halfway through 36.

I only have 1 of other of the Elco. After this show though, I drove the 65 Coronet Hemi convertible and Challenger Demon. A Lil Red Express A Winged Warrior and Mopar show at the house of the PO of my MJ’s father. My cousin’s 72 Lemans GT (not a T-37 or GTO) A 68 Shelby GT500KR convertible that my dad drove his neighbor around in decades ago. 1 of 318. My Dad’s 54 Studebaker Conestoga Wagon. He bought this car with the roof cut off, so he chopped it. It had a 9” with 4.10s and a posi, a Chevy 355 with dual quads, and a 5 speed. Now located in Belgium. 1 of roughly 400 My mom’s old 46 Chevy and my Grandpa’s 34 Chevy Master Town Sedan. It had an SBC with a tripower. He drove it every day during the summer since the 80s. Unfortunately, in 2016, he was in a crash in that car and neither are around today, but the weather was beautiful that day and it was how he would have wanted to go. Roughly 900 of those cars were built between 33 and 34.

By no means exotic, but harder to come by than most exotics. My boss’s 59 El Camino. He bought it in 1960, the year he graduated high school, and has never sold it. Originally it was a 6 cylinder with a three on the tree. In 1966, he drove the El Camino down to SoCal to visit his wife’s uncle. Jim and his wife’s uncle then took the El down to Tijuana, Mexico to get the interior done in black diamond pattern leather. That interior is still in it, and is in excellent shape. On the way to SoCal, he also bent some pushrods running it through the mountains. He had to fix it when they got to his wife’s uncle’s house. Fast forward a few years, Jim is working in a body shop when a rolled over 66 Chevy full-size with a 300 horsepower 327 comes in. At this time, the El had about 40,000 miles on it. The 66 only had a couple thousand. Jim took the engine out of the 66 and dropped it in the El. In 1976, Jim opened the Auto Center. He decided that it was time to redo the El. He repaired the rust, painted it blue, put on turbine wheels, a 66 Belvedere grille, and side pipes. Everything you see on that truck today is original to the restoration in 76. Even the tires. The El now has a bit over 70,000 miles on it and he puts a couple hundred on that every summer.

Could I? Yes. Will I? No. It would suck what little power this car has and the electrical would not be worth the gain, IMHO. If I were to run any other type of trans, it would be an AX-15. The only issue is finishing on that doesn’t have varnish build up in it from sitting.

The issue is finding the Eagle specific clutch pedal and related pieces, but it is possible. I would rather keep it. This one has (I believe) a TF998, but I have heard good things about them.

Update on the transmission: the case is also no good, so I have to source another one though. I made some calls and one is being pulled for me in the next couple of days. And if that doesn’t work, I might be giving my spare AX-15 a home…

Would you be doing the rebuild or paying somebody to build it for you? If you were paying someone to build it and it didn't have a warranty, I'd probably be looking at a Reman unit.

Are you using an old transmission cooler? I'd make sure that isn't plugged. How long did the XJ sit? It could be possible that the transmission is all varnished up now and it needs to be flushed.

Yes I do! And I followed up my reasoning with these screenshots from Mecum. The 87 that went for $35,200 even has the wrong hood on it.

I do love keeping these rigs on the road. My grandma asked me if I was going to junk it. What she doesn’t know is that my Eagle is going to outlive her Honda CR-V, just because she said that. I’m not giving up on either of my rigs.

Indeed it does. We are suspecting that, because the car sat for probably 2 decades, the ATF became varnish and plugged it up. Even though we flushed it, we must not have gotten at all. On the bright side, I should be good for many more miles!

No it does not! I’m glad this was a southern car and I didn’t lose a cooler line. It does suck that the cooler got plugged and cooked though.

I think it would look fantastic with some maroon Pioneer stripes. Maybe Sportruck stripes.

Never a dull moment owning 2 80s AMC products. The transmission cooler got plugged up and cooked the transmission. We pulled it out and I’m bringing it to get rebuilt tomorrow. It wouldn’t shift into second or third anymore. It went from no issues, to not shifting in 2 days.

My brother has that same model! I think he is going to build it to match his truck.

That truck is so 80s gorgeous!

I think you should keep the old front end if you are delinking turbines. But I’m sure you will make it look good either way.

He will need to be a good grinder to make his welds look good, more than likely. He will also have to grind the welds smooth if they are on the body.

We’ll get you through it. We will all just have to be patient, and you will have to be a good grinder.

If you can't find someone to come to you, you can PM me or I can send you my number in the PMs and I will help you through it. It may even be beneficial to post your specific spots of rust here in the forum. What rust does your truck have that needs to be repaired?

@ExpatMJGuy, are you parting this out now? If so, would you be interested in selling the front fender flares, if they are in good condition?