Jeep Honcho

July 7th, 2007 by Shenron

The Jeep Honcho was the successor to the Jeep Gladiator and entered service in 1971, until it was succeeded by the Jeep Comanche. The Jeep Honcho was a two door styled front engine mounted vehicle that had rear wheel or four wheel drive available to it and many different engines as did its predecessor. Classed as a full sized pickup truck it served as the flagship for Jeep in their truck line, and was heavily based on the same chassis as the Jeep Wagoneer. Available engine and transmission options were the three speed or four speed manual along with the three speed automatic; with engines it was varied between the AMC line of six and V8 engines, the Buick Dauntless, the AMC 360 or 401 and a small Tornado six stroke engine. The Jeep honcho proved to be a popular truck for rallies and offloading events as when it is combined with a powerful engine it as something nearly unmatched.

The Jeep Honcho performed well and lasted from 1971 until 1987, a full sixteen years as Jeep’s main truck. They are reliable and dependable, and currently are still in use in many motor events. Highly sought after, very dependable, and easily worked on, the Honcho was able to boast that it did not use fuel injection systems during its entire run while many other vehicles had begun to do so. If you ever have the chance to snatch one of these up to restore it I recommend that you do, it is almost a collectible now with so few seen anymore, mostly because as soon as the Comanche came out, the Honcho was dusted.

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