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Offline Nightpath

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Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« on: January 10, 2015, 08:21:05 PM »
I've started looking around at Jeep clubs and posting in them about how the Eagle is really a Jeep. I mean..the evidence is there! Seriously.

Both AMC
Same engines
Same transmission (not all but some)
Dana axles
Same body parts (door handles, steering parts, etc)
Both 4x4
Both awesome

Most of these clubs only give 2 shits if the body looks Jeep, a good portion run Chev 350's or old Land Rover diesels under the hood, some even put their bodies on old Ford frames. In the end, some only have Jeep body parts but they still stick to it that the Chevy 350 / NVxxx / GM Corporate axles / Ford 8 1/4 is pure Jeep.

Started with a local club.

http://nsjc.proboards.com/thread/48154/eagle-jeep

And another club but it's a regular offroading club.

https://www.backcountry4x4club.ca/forums/topic/5074-an-eagle-is-really-a-jeep/

Shall we propagate this? See if we can make the Jeep world recognize their good old Uncle Crossover?   >:D
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2015, 01:36:57 AM »
With my SX4 (avatar photo)  went the same places that the Jeeps went, and sometimes where they feared to go.  However, you probably won't get much agreement about their similarities from the Jeep guys for many reasons.  Now, if the Eagle came from the factory with a 2 speed transfer case and a straight axle up front, that would be a different matter.  If only AMC continued building the Eagle, it might have evolved into what the Cherokee is/was.
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2015, 02:11:27 AM »
Ford is 8.8". 8.25" is Chrysler.  :)
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2015, 10:12:49 AM »
It was late...I even had a 8 1/4 under my Eagle lol.
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2015, 02:36:43 PM »
You want the Eagle to be a Jeep? Why?
Imagine Jeepers posting here and telling us a Jeep is really an Eagle.
I wouldn't  give a ::Beeep:: either.
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2015, 02:46:38 PM »
The AMC Eagle did evolve into the XJ.  Roy used the Eagle as a test bed to create the unibody XJ.  So, in  a sense when the XJ came out AMC competed against itself.
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2015, 08:00:16 PM »
so is the new Cherokee really an eagle since it doesn't have low range? I know the Chrysler jeep fans are upset about it
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2015, 10:05:41 PM »
The original new Cherokee design was almost a new Eagle. I kid you not.

The new Cherokee was thought originally to be a Liberty. At the time of making the pic I couldn't find a good one of a SX/4 to slide in there.

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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2015, 09:42:48 AM »
Starting in about 86, Eagles were included in the Jeep division. Show them a 1986 Jeep catalog with the Eagle.
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2015, 11:23:31 AM »
Most Jeep forums (at least full size) don't accept Humvees as Jeeps either.
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2015, 12:19:01 PM »
To be realistic, the Humvee was never sold under the AMC name. AM General sold them (which was an offshoot) and they were never advertised as a Jeep/AMC product.

The heritage is there, but the Jeep guys are rabid about things looking like a Jeep.
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2015, 02:06:38 PM »
The only reason it didn't have an AMC label was the buy in by Renault that forced the spin off of the military design group. The first one even had a 401/TH400/NP208 combo with Model 20 axles. Can't get much more AMC than that.
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2015, 04:05:30 PM »
Roy Lunn came back from retirement to join the Hummer design team. The independent front and rear suspension smell like double Eagle.
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Re: Posting in Jeep forums about how the Eagle is a Jeep. Lets see how it goes
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2015, 04:15:21 PM »
Yup.  Worked for the Eagle why not the Humvee.
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