1982 AM General DJ5

62,295 miles

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Vehicle Price $13,900
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Vehicle Info

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    Condition
    Used
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    Trim
    N/A
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    Mileage
    62,295 miles
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    Stock #
    B6563 J
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    Engine
    I4 2.5L
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    Transmission
    Automatic
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    Drive Train
    RWD
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    Exterior Color
    White
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    Interior Color
    Gray
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    Fuel
    Gasoline

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Seller's Notes

The AM General DJ5 served the United States Postal Service for nearly two decades, produced from 1965 through 1983 and based on the rugged Jeep CJ5 platform. The USPS contract to purchase these trucks was so significant that it helped keep American Motors financially afloat through the early 1980s, which makes this little right-hand drive workhorse a more historically important vehicle than most people realize. This particular example has been fully restored in 2025 and dressed up with the kind of personality that makes it impossible not to smile at. Finished in white with red and blue stripes down the side, stamps and map headliner inside, and only 200 miles since the restoration was completed, it is as sharp and sorted as a DJ5 can possibly be.
Under the hood is the 2.5 liter inline four backed by the 3-speed 904 automatic transmission, the same basic drivetrain combination that carried mail across suburban America for years without complaint. The engine has been rebuilt, the transmission has been rebuilt, and the AMC 20 differential is sorted and ready. New brake shoes, hardware, wheel cylinders and drums, new shocks all around, new water pump, new alternator, new alternator belt, new door seals, and a new transmission cooler have been addressed in the restoration. The body has been fully repainted and the undercarriage has been coated. This is not a cosmetic refresh. It has been gone through properly from one end to the other.
Inside, the grey cloth seat is clean and the right-hand drive configuration puts you on the correct side for waving at the neighbors. The sliding doors work the way they should, and the stamps and map headliner is one of the most fitting and creative interior details you will find on any vehicle at any price. It is the kind of touch that tells you whoever built this actually cared about doing it right.
The DJ5 was designed to be simple, durable, and easy to maintain on a daily route schedule, and it delivered on all three for nearly 20 years of postal service. Most of them ended up crushed or parted out after the USPS retired them. Finding one that has survived, been properly restored, and given this level of personality and care is genuinely rare. It is a piece of American working history that happens to also be one of the more interesting vehicles you can drive down the street today.
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GR Auto Gallery
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  • (616) 219-2256
4722 50th St. SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49512

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Vehicle Price $13,900
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GR Auto Gallery
    Open Now
  • (616) 219-2256
4722 50th St. SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49512