NMNA: You could be the first.
NMNA: You could be the first.
I will have one of these one day.
I've always thought these were cool. A friend of mine had one briefly a very long time ago.
Sadly the SCCA chose to outlaw these from CAM autocross this year. 
Always wanted to cut the top off of one of these and make a CJ Mini-Me.
The challenge would be to get it through an AX course on it's wheels. Of course most have manual steering, so you'll definitely know your doing something wrong before you go over.
A good friend of mine had one back in the nineties. It was really good for towing his boat from his house down to the boat ramp and back, about a mile with a maximum speed of thirty-five mph. A routine he did almost every day in the summer. Towing the empty trailer 70 miles down to the shore was awful. Noisy, twitchy, bumpy and slow, top speed of about 55, gearing limited I suspect. This particular postal Jeep had an I6 and 3 spd AT, but I think the rear axle ratio was 4.56/1 or something else good for pulling stumps.
Anyway, even if it could have gone faster you be nuts to want to, even without a trailer.
He did have enough sense to not pull the loaded boat trailer back with it, and I rode back home by other means.
TL/DR: unless you are masochistic you aren't missing anything.
Stock gearing on a I6 auto (232/727) would be 3.73. Plenty of them came with limited slip diffs in the D44 rear end. Taking the top off would lower the CoG quite a bit, but they weren't all that horrible, and certainly no worse than a CJ5. I suspect quite a bit of worn out suspension and worn out steering, which would make for scary handling at the 80" WB.
When the Post Office sold these off, you could get them for $350 or less, running and driving.
Price drop to $300.
Just sent the owner a text... I'm curious about this little guy.
Just saying
100 for the 4 speed transmission and 300 for the conversion parts to manual if anyone is interested. Still debating on getting this...
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