They probably got a good deal on them. Hard to imagine that all those cars
up in Canada with AC, while down here no AC in those fleet Ambassadors mentioned
earlier. In late 1990s/early 2000's the US postal system decided to get away
from the little DJ-5 mail Jeeps. Too many of them were getting broken into by
crackheads. People would wait until the letter carrier left and walked away from
route knowing they could be blocks away, then would go window shopping, driving
up, smashing out glass and simply grabbing crates of mail in effort to steal
checks like social security ones, also credit cards.
So up on Shepard road the main post office place started having auctions
weekly, selling the DJ-5s for pennies on dollar as they simply retired them and
went to the secure Grumman vans. On the Grumman vans it has a door inside like
UPS and FedEx trucks, so no glass in back, and can lock it between cab and rear.
But the litle DJ-5 Jeeps sold off a decade ago, most of them had less than 60K
miles and most of them sold under $1500 each. Being a vehicle people remember
and notice, places like pizza companies loaded up on them. One place here in
Houston painted their DJ5s a big bad green color, so stood out in traffic when
delivering pizzas in them. Fast forward 10 years later don't see them on road
anymore, even delivering pizzas.
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