RHD Grand Wagoneer

"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12)
10/10/2020 at 19:41 • Filed to: None

DISCUSSION (19)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Nauraushaun
10/10/2020 at 19:59

rare!

Beefchips > Nauraushaun
10/10/2020 at 20:04

Mirror flip in MS Paint?? Lol just kidding nice find! It’s a beaut.

ranwhenparked > Nauraushaun
10/10/2020 at 20:15

Can’t be many of those around at all. I know there was an importer in the UK that did RHD conversions in the ‘80s, I’m assuming it was aftermarket down there as well? American Motors couldn’t have possibly been able to afford to do it themselves, they still had dirt floors in part of the Toledo factory because concrete was too expensive.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ranwhenparked
10/10/2020 at 20:21

Wasn’t that a standard “US Mail Carrier” configuration back in the day?

ranwhenparked > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
10/10/2020 at 20:28

Yeah, but the Grand Wagoneer was way too posh for the USPS, the Jeep Dispatchers were based on the CJ-Series (CJ3/5/6).

Our postal vehicles are still mainly RHD (mostly Grumman LLVs), rural carriers have to use their personal vehicles, and I’ve seen some of them starting to buy 25+ year old Japanese vans

Just Jeepin' > ranwhenparked
10/10/2020 at 21:03

I passed a RHD Grand Cherokee today doing the postal rounds.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Nauraushaun
10/10/2020 at 21:05

That is like some sort of alternate universe GW. Kinda trippy to see.

ranwhenparked > Just Jeepin'
10/10/2020 at 21:32

There’s companies that do conversions specifically for rural carriers. The one that used to come to my old office had a first generation CRV that was RHD. Although, that one *might* have been factory, since I think the US-market ones were built in the UK.

Nauraushaun > pip bip - choose Corrour
10/11/2020 at 02:29

That numberolate

Been here a long ass time

pip bip - choose Corrour > Nauraushaun
10/11/2020 at 02:53

indeed. didn’t notice at first

KnowsAboutCars > Nauraushaun
10/11/2020 at 08:11

I can’t remember ever seeing amber rear blinkers even on the cars originally sold in Finland.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ranwhenparked
10/11/2020 at 09:28

I think some parts of the country (this was in Utah) use “Independent Contract Mail Carriers” and they have vendors that provide USPS approved configurations. Anyway, I’m sure RHD GC had been used on the routes I’m thinking of, even if not in the USPS Red White and Blue Grummans.

ranwhenparked > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
10/11/2020 at 11:17

Yeah, they’re rural carriers, we have them around out here too. They don’t wear uniforms and drive their own personal vehicles. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, a lot of them actually bought old USPS Jeep DJ5s to use, but those are too old now and have all pretty well disappeared. Mostly aftermarket conversions of ordinary consumer vehicles now, and I expect they’re expensive enough to do that they hold on to the cars as long as they can.

There’s a JDM importer in Pennsylvania who also advertises their vans as suitable for mail routes, and they seem to have sold a few that way. I used to see an RHD Toyota running around making deliveries in eastern Maryland when I worked on Kent Island

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ranwhenparked
10/12/2020 at 10:55

Funny. I lived for a time (agency gig) just across the The Bridge in Arnold (Annapolis).

ranwhenparked > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
10/12/2020 at 11:20

I was over in Annapolis on Saturday to buy a fireplace, nice area. My Kent Island branch got quite a few customers from Arnold, for some reason. Guess they liked us more than Severna Park.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ranwhenparked
10/12/2020 at 11:26

Heh. Yeah, Severna Park...

For the record, I despise the Bridge. Especially at 6PM on a summer Friday evening.

ranwhenparked > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
10/12/2020 at 12:03

Oh, and they're doing deck replacement now, so there's going to be at least one lane out of commission at a time for the next couple of years.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ranwhenparked
10/12/2020 at 12:12

ON Friday in summer the traffic would back up WAY past Parole on the 50. Insane.

My pet theory (and I’m sure you’ll disagree) is that the Bridge was, in retrospect, a huge mistake since it opened up Kent Island and the Eastern Short and, heavens!, Delaware to be commuter distance to jobs in the Beltway... Thus it actually fostered a lot of urban sprawl.

In the old days, Kent Island must have been a dream, with “ferry service only”. OTOH, we gotta help the pols get out to Weekends in Rehobeth and Ocean City...

ranwhenparked > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
10/12/2020 at 12:21

I mean, I guess the easy distance to Washington is part of what keeps Milton and the Delaware beach towns nice places to live, as opposed to the more inland towns in Sussex County, which are more, um... works in progress. But, that highway bisecting the thing is a big reason why I’d never want to live on Kent Island myself. And people get off early thinking they can beat the queue for the bridge by getting back on at the last ramp, and all that does is push the traffic jams into the residential surface streets all over the island.