Origin / creation story
Core three-company account is triangulated; primary Quartermaster, FTC, and period-press records remain open.
Coverage status · public research debt
Research debt, published.
Partial does not mean poor. It means the section has useful work and named gaps. No section is labeled complete.
20tracked areas
20partial
0claimed complete
People
Priority origin and AMC/Chrysler figures are drafted; several designers and rights-clear portraits remain open.
Military M-series
MB/GPW through M715/M725 backbone drafted; primary technical documentation remains thin.
Foreign / licensed production
France, Japan, India, Brazil, Spain, Argentina, and Mexico are represented with market scope.
CJ series
CJ-2A through CJ-8 chronology drafted; year-by-year powertrain and running changes remain open.
Wagoneer / Grand Wagoneer
Original SJ story is established; modern WS revival needs deeper research.
Cherokee
SJ and XJ stories are drafted; later market naming and global production need expansion.
Grand Cherokee
Launch and five-generation backbone drafted; trim, option, and rarity work remains.
Wrangler
YJ through JL/JOL and Rubicon throughlines drafted; boundary and legal-history claims need stronger sources.
Gladiator / pickup trucks
Original SJ/J-series and modern JT branches drafted.
FC / Comanche / crossovers
Forward Control, MJ, Liberty, Commander, Compass, Patriot, and Renegade have overview coverage.
Engines and powertrains
Major engine genealogies drafted; per-year configuration matrices remain open.
Concept vehicles / Easter Jeep Safari
Selected concepts and Mark Allen throughline drafted; event image rights remain constrained.
Slat-grille MB
Identification story drafted from specialist evidence; primary serial documentation remains open.
Racing / off-road culture
Rubicon, Jeepers Jamboree, Camel Trophy, KOH, and Safari drafted; Baja remains thin.
VIN / data plates / options
Era boundaries and artifact types drafted; no rule-backed decoder is ready.
Rare and notable vehicles
Prototype, low-run, option, auction, and halo-vehicle examples are separated by claim type.
Controversies / disputed stories
Origin credit, name theories, launch memory, and forum claims are preserved with attribution.
Forums and communities
Key archives are characterized; deep thread-by-thread mining is ongoing.
Approved images
Forty rights-reviewed images exist in the research library; known family, people, and event gaps remain.