Project POStal—my 1976 Jeep DJ-5 Postal Jeep—is officially dead. The Jeep, which started out as a hopeless pile of rust when I bought it two years ago for $500, came back to life last spring and ...
"It's too far gone," the unbelievers said. "It cannot be saved."Project Postal—the $500 postal Jeep that at the time had a two-foot rust hole in its frame and a cracked engine—was met with plenty of ...
First, a little history on the Postal Jeep. Before the USPS started using the Grumman LLV mail trucks that you still see on the road today after almost 30 years of service, it used the Jeep DJ, also ...
I came of driving age in the early 1980s, when running ex-USPS Dispatchers were available for hilariously cheap prices, and several of my acquaintances used them as daily drivers at that time. This is ...
The Jeep was marketed as a utilitarian vehicle when it hit civilian soil after World War II. With things like auxiliary power take-off equipment available, Jeeps were truly capable of just about ...
Mail trucks don’t get a lot of love as they’re no frill vehicles with a singular purpose. However, that’s not the case with this 1971 Jeep DJ which was transformed into a one-of-a-kind hot rod for ...
We'll dispense with the going-postal jokes right up front. In reality, if anybody is going snap and run amuck with a weapon, it's probably going to be an underpaid off-road editor, not a government ...