TheJeepNut Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Hi all and HAPPY NEW YEAR. In an effort mainly to entertain myself but to help get out any/all info I can on these special trucks I've created a page for everything I've ever found out about them. The narrative will get bigger soon as I begin to fill in the details that I've learned. But for now, its mostly the Photos and Eulogies page with links to all that I know of out there still alive and not. https://sites.google.com/site/streetcomanche/ Hope it's found to be useful and informative. If anyone knows how I can make that hit the top of a Google search, let me know. JeepNut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyc Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Cool. I've seen a couple of Street Comanches in the local junkyards. But both of them had the numbered plates removed from the glovebox door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatslug87 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Hey JeepNut, are you still in the South Bay? I grew up in Santa Clara. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJeepNut Posted January 2, 2011 Author Share Posted January 2, 2011 I WISH. I'm one of those transplants that felt like he'd come home when I moved to California. Lived in San Diego, then Irvine, worked in Long Beach and finally ended up in Santa Cruz mtns working in Palo Alto before work paths led me astray. #24was found on the lot at Don-a-Vee in Bellflower in 1989 just after I'd returned from a WestPAC. My sales guy had to argue with another sales guy about who was gonna get the truck. Was on the lot <24hrs when I saw it. I saw it, drove home to Irvine, got the checkbook and went back and bought it that night, much to the chagrin of the other dude that was trying to get there to buy it! lol Some guy in San Gabriel had traded it. What an idiot. lol All the pics you'll see of #24 on the Yahoo groups photo page were taken up by Tahoe. I never was much of a camera guy so don't have that many of them. I used to tell anyone that asked that I was a Hoosier by birth, a Californian by heart, now living in Memphis. But now I'm back in Indiana, However Street Comanche #24 has NEVER been driven on salted roadways and to this day hasn't got a speck of rust on the body anywhere. It's sitting in a barn right now "waiting for my ship to come in" so I can resurrect her. After blowing up the 2nd BA5/10 pos it got parked. After raising 3 kids I'm still broke and waiting to restart that project. She's been sitting since 1998... I'm slow but I'll get there. Thinking it would be superb w/ a 4.6l stroker and an AX-15. I'll put all these boring details on the page eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJeepNut Posted January 2, 2011 Author Share Posted January 2, 2011 Cool. I've seen a couple of Street Comanches in the local junkyards. But both of them had the numbered plates removed from the glovebox door. Yup. Would suspect that someone would like to try and build one one of their own and use the plaque. No VIN clues as they were all just a base pkg that the dealer(s) horsed up. And I believe they were not all exactly the same. But some details are apparently universal to them. The ground effects kit is the hard thing to get. Once Chrysler stuck their nose into it and killed off the Comanche it spelled DOOM for us in the aftermarket. Too short a run to be really supported. That's why you don't find aftermarket tailights anywhere for instance. Just not enough potential sales to interest a big company. I did always wonder tho, there were a TON of 2x XJ's out there. I would have thought money could have been made with ground effects kits. But everything else about them could be easily duplicated. Which is why they aren't all that valuable. I've been told that what made them special otherwise was that you could NOT order in 1987 a 2x 4.0l w/ 5speed and a short wheelbase. OTHER than this special order that the dealer(s) built into a Street Comanche. Only 4cyl with the shortbase in 2x versions. Have never been able to find out if that was one dealer or many but almost ALL of the ones I saw, I saw in California. Nowadays they've scattered about. One in OK, mine in IN now, #25 was in IL before OK.... etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyc Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 If I'm not mistaken, all of the Street Comanches were built by Archer Brothers in NorCal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJeepNut Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 Not to argue but Archer Racing is in Duluth, MN. I had the opportunity to speak to John Archer ( ..or was it Bobby?... can't remember now...) 15 years ago or so and I actually purchased the last couple of loose pieces of ground effects that he had in the shop. Or maybe he just gave them to me. Can't recall. I'll find the records tho... I'm a packrat. He only had left exactly what I needed. The one piece on the right rear and a cover for the back bumper (mine got slightly damaged in a rear end bump by some goober). I seem to recall him relating that they had the ground effects produced. They used the ground effects on the trucks they raced in SCCA circuit back in the late 80s. But they didn't build the Street Comanche. I was told that the Jeep dealer ordered a package and then built the truck from there. I've got Archer brochures and parts lists with the prices and part numbers of the parts. But that does no good these days since no one is making them anymore. Wonder where the molds went... ? hmmm.... I'll scan and post all the brochure pages, etc on the site eventually as well just for all the Jeep nuts out there. Again, not arguing, just trying to keep it real, what is known vs. what is surmised. And my memory isn't pristine. I'm not a young buck anymore. LOL I'll post my version of the truth on my Google site eventually. Maybe James is still around (#54) and will help keep me honest. He used to haunt a few lists and I think he actually talked to one of the Archer brothers 10-15 years ago as well. I'm digging through 20+ years of emails and notes trying to pull it all together for the site. Pretty sure I've got a VERY old James email that documented a bunch of stuff. I have posted a request to the Archer brothers site to see if I can get one of them to dialog with me one more time so I can document all he knows on the website. I remember getting the impression years ago that they would like to move on from the Jeep thing. They are a racing team, not necessarily Jeep enthusiasts. I don't want to badger them but would love to get it from the guys who really knew what might be FACT. Pete M if you're browsing the thread and know anything specific, please chime in. I seem to recall you picked up some tidbits of info over the years... Oh and if anyone knows how to get Chip Foose to OVERHAUL #24 for me I'd be ever so grateful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyc Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 It seems that the Street Comanche was a California promotion and there is an Archer Bros. in Hayward, California. So I was always under the impression that they were built in NorCal. :dunno: http://comancheclub.com/forums/viewtopi ... 96&start=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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