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According to a Toledo Blade article, today (Friday, June 30, 2006) marks the day that the last Jeep TJ Wrangler rolls off the production line. Built in the Jeep Parkway plant yesterday, and finished in Jeep’s Stickney Ave plant today (it’s being painted red), it’s the last TJ to be built, and the last Jeep to be built in the Parkway plant.

Jeep’s Parkway plant is the nation’s longest-running automotive plant, putting out roughly 11 million vehicles in its 96 years of operation. Started in 1910, the Parkway plant was built for Willys-Overland Motor Co., and two of the three smokestacks for the plant’s powerhouse still bear the ‘Overland’ name.