1979 Jeep Wagoneer [SJ]
1979 Jeep Wagoneer [SJ] in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Movie, 1977
Class: Cars, Off-road / SUV — Model origin: 
![1979 Jeep Wagoneer [SJ]](/i002298.jpg)
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2006-05-25 14:29 |
hehe nice scene |
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◊ 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). |
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◊ 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 |
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◊ 2006-05-29 08:40 |
It's the Kaiser model from the early sixties. |
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◊ 2006-05-29 10:29 |
What is full make & model then ?  |
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◊ 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. |
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◊ 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......  |
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◊ 2006-05-30 02:56 |
Of course it is. I just can't figure out how they could come up with them in 1977. |
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◊ 2006-05-31 20:43 |
When I search I find a lot 1977 Wagoneers... Link to "images.google.nl" |
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◊ 2006-05-31 20:58 |
No wonder, they are around since the early 1960s! .gif ":)") 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. |
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◊ 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? |
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◊ 2006-06-02 11:37 |
They are 1978 AMC Jeep Wagoneers. They must have been brand new when the movie was filmed. |
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◊ 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! |
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◊ 2009-11-12 03:25 |
They may have been prototype models when they very first designed that grille. Just a thought. |
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◊ 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. |
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◊ 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 |
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◊ 2019-09-26 15:37 |
![[Image: watchcloseencountersofthethirdkindspecialedition4kuhd_primevideo-googlechrome9_26_20199_34_28am.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/17474/watchcloseencountersofthethirdkindspecialedition4kuhd_primevideo-googlechrome9_26_20199_34_28am.jpg) ![[Image: watchcloseencountersofthethirdkindspecialedition4kuhd_primevideo-googlechrome9_26_20199_34_52am.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/17474/watchcloseencountersofthethirdkindspecialedition4kuhd_primevideo-googlechrome9_26_20199_34_52am.jpg) -- Last edit: 2019-09-26 20:11:37 (walter) |
