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1979 Jeep Wagoneer [SJ]

1979 Jeep Wagoneer [SJ] in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Movie, 1977 IMDB

Class: Cars, Off-road / SUV — Model origin: US

1979 Jeep Wagoneer [SJ]

[*][*] Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Comments about this vehicle

AuthorMessage

CarChasesFanatic ES

2006-05-25 14:29

hehe nice scene

Hecubus CA

2006-05-26 01:45

It'd have to be a regular Wagoneer, the Grand Wagoneer didn't come out until '84 (when the smaller, Cherokee-based Wagoneer came out).

Ddey65 US

2006-05-26 15:11

They didn't get the square headlights & black grilles until 1979, so they're not 1976 Wagoneers at all. The question is, how did this scene get in a movie made in 1977?




-- Last edit: 2006-05-26 15:12:50

subalternnavert

2006-05-29 08:40

It's the Kaiser model from the early sixties.

antp BE

2006-05-29 10:29

What is full make & model then ? :??:

Alexander DE

2006-05-29 11:22

The best match is a 1978 model AMC Jeep Wagoneer Limited.
I don't know when in the year 1977 the next year's model became available, but this looks a lot like a promotion for the new model.

TheDriver CH

2006-05-29 18:03

So, I think we just found a little bigger movie mistake here, huh?!

I'd say it's after all at the earliest a 1979 Jeep SJ Wagoneer...... :D

Ddey65 US

2006-05-30 02:56

TheDriver wrote So, I think we just found a little bigger movie mistake here, huh?!

I'd say it's after all at the earliest a 1979 Jeep SJ Wagoneer...... :D

Of course it is. I just can't figure out how they could come up with them in 1977.


garco NL

2006-05-31 20:43

When I search I find a lot 1977 Wagoneers...
Link to "images.google.nl"

Alexander DE

2006-05-31 20:58

garco wrote When I search I find a lot 1977 Wagoneers...

No wonder, they are around since the early 1960s! :)
It is the shape of the radiator grille that is the problem. This shape first turns up on the 1978 model AMC Jeep Wagoneer Limited.

qwerty_86 US

2006-06-01 05:27

Doesn't this scene take place in the Sahara Desert or somehere in the middle east? Don't they have different models over there?

Junkman UK

2006-06-02 11:37

They are 1978 AMC Jeep Wagoneers. They must have been brand new when the movie was filmed.

modell US

2006-06-07 01:29

According to IMDb, the movie was shot back in the summer of 1976! Must've just rolled off the assembly line brand spanking new!

jeepwagoneerman US

2009-11-12 03:25

They may have been prototype models when they very first designed that grille. Just a thought.

motorcity US

2010-10-13 04:39

I just read Roger Ebert's review from 1980 of the Special Edition of CE3K. Spielberg shot some new footage for this "director's cut" re-release, so maybe this was shot after the '77 release. Might explain the post-'77 models, if that's what they are.

steveg1988a4 US

2011-07-13 21:40

On the 2007 BluRay release it marks this scene as a 1980 filmed one, with the timeline chart of changes between versions. so they can be 1980 models due to the fact that it was filmed in 1980

Terra US

2019-09-26 15:37

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-- Last edit: 2019-09-26 20:11:37 (walter)

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