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**Updating this 2/13/19 (wow, 17 years later...) to load the images directly in the thread since my original site that had them is long gone. Added some links and edited only what I needed to make it make sense with the new links/images. Edited title to be more descriptive.**
Yeah, it's that crazy guy that drove the AK Postal across the country again...
**Update: I flew to and bought my Postal in Anchorage in 2002, got it running and drove it back from AK to NC with my brother. Here's the link to the blog posts I made on what used to be Rockcrawler.com (now owned by IH8Mud.com, but he still keeps this live this for me) during the trip back: https://www.rockcrawler.com/trailreports/postalcj8/index.asp -- note that you click the dots on the map in the upper left to move between the posts.
I wanted to post all of the great information that I found at the Museum of Alaskan Transportation and Industry in Wasilla, Alaska regarding the Alaskan Postal Scramblers' history and pictures of the very nicely restored example that they have on site.
There's some documents from the USPS that detail the history of the restored Postal, the Postal CJ-8s' history in general and their use in service. I've also scanned in more pictures of the restored Jeep, when I was there my digital camera crapped out, so there's a couple pictures that weren't posted on the Rockcrawler.com site.
The most interesting bit in all of that information is the exact, official number of these Postals that were built, a number that's been unknown and disputed everywhere that I've seen: 230. Considering the number that I have seen personally or have read that were totalled or chopped up, the number of ones that can possibly still exist is right at or around 200! **Update: We now have a thread on here where we are attempting to list out as many of the Postals and their World Cabs that we can based on first-hand information, here's the link: https://www.cj-8.com/threads/alaska...cab-count-registry-help-build-the-list.48322/
Anyone interested in Alaskan Postals should feel free to email or PM me... I don't mind talking about them too much
This is the very clean, fully restored Jeep at the MATI (this isn't my photo, but a more recent and larger/better quality one taken by Craig Taylor):
These are poor quality scans of my film photos from 2002, it hasn't changed much and when I saw it they had it under roof, out of the weather.
Next up: The USPS documents.
Yeah, it's that crazy guy that drove the AK Postal across the country again...
**Update: I flew to and bought my Postal in Anchorage in 2002, got it running and drove it back from AK to NC with my brother. Here's the link to the blog posts I made on what used to be Rockcrawler.com (now owned by IH8Mud.com, but he still keeps this live this for me) during the trip back: https://www.rockcrawler.com/trailreports/postalcj8/index.asp -- note that you click the dots on the map in the upper left to move between the posts.
I wanted to post all of the great information that I found at the Museum of Alaskan Transportation and Industry in Wasilla, Alaska regarding the Alaskan Postal Scramblers' history and pictures of the very nicely restored example that they have on site.
There's some documents from the USPS that detail the history of the restored Postal, the Postal CJ-8s' history in general and their use in service. I've also scanned in more pictures of the restored Jeep, when I was there my digital camera crapped out, so there's a couple pictures that weren't posted on the Rockcrawler.com site.
The most interesting bit in all of that information is the exact, official number of these Postals that were built, a number that's been unknown and disputed everywhere that I've seen: 230. Considering the number that I have seen personally or have read that were totalled or chopped up, the number of ones that can possibly still exist is right at or around 200! **Update: We now have a thread on here where we are attempting to list out as many of the Postals and their World Cabs that we can based on first-hand information, here's the link: https://www.cj-8.com/threads/alaska...cab-count-registry-help-build-the-list.48322/
Anyone interested in Alaskan Postals should feel free to email or PM me... I don't mind talking about them too much
This is the very clean, fully restored Jeep at the MATI (this isn't my photo, but a more recent and larger/better quality one taken by Craig Taylor):
These are poor quality scans of my film photos from 2002, it hasn't changed much and when I saw it they had it under roof, out of the weather.
Next up: The USPS documents.
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