The humble beginnings of mainstream RVing are on display with the 1969 CJ5 Jeep Camper. At just $5,000, it was one of the first truck campers, it debuted in 1969 when Kaiser Jeep company started a marketing campaign called “Great Jeep Escape” and sold three types of CJ5 campers.
The camper itself was made by Honorbuilt, a division of Ward Manufacturing. Unlike truck campers of today, the CJ5 Camper had its own axle and brakes that took most of the weight off the Jeep.
Because of the consistency in the body style of Jeeps at the time, they would fit any CJ5 made from 1955 up to the mid 1970s.
Even so, it’s reported that only 336 of them were produced.
When AMC purchased Kaiser Jeep in 1970 that meant the end for the Jeep camper. This makes the Jeep Camper one of the rarest commercial RV models ever created.
a CJ5 Jeep Camper that got stuck on a rock outcropping in Arizona’s Petrified Forest during the summer of 1969.
https://www.jeep.com/history/1970s.html
http://www.doityourselfrv.com/1969-cj5-jeep-camper/
http://www.doityourselfrv.com/rare-cj5-jeep-camper-got-serious-trouble-petrified-forest-45-years-ago/
https://www.fourwheeler.com/features/1409-a-camper-for-the-cj-jeep-encyclopedia/
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