A collection of links to interesting, surprising and cool Jeep related stories. If you have or know of any other
stories that should be posted here, please .
Worlds longest Jeep Parade
The Guinness World Records Longest Jeep Parade was set at the first annual Bantam Jeep Festival in August 2011. Jeeps traveled by decade along a three-mile parade
route before parking on Butler's Main Street for a cruise. The official record states 1,106 jeeps participated in the parade.
The Bantam Festival website has a photo slide show of the parade and the event with some amazing pictures, check it out by using the link below.
Jeep Team ATK has proved its toughness running and wining several brutal offroad races. Here are a few links to the victory stories on
this awesome Jeep.
Some amazing photos of the vast numbers of Jeeps left on the island of Okinawa, Japan (1949) at the end of WWII and in Pusan, Korea (1960) at the end of the Korean war. Enough to make
Militiary Jeep collectors and restorers, cry!
"This concept Jeep EV Wrangler Unlimited gets a battery pack, an electronics controller, and a 268 HP electric motor with 295 lb-ft of torque, while the big gas engine is subtracted in
favour of a fuel-sipping generator. The knee-jerk reaction to an electrically motivated Jeep might be to recoil in horror at the thought, but think about it for a second — maximum torque
at zero RPM, a power source unaffected by orientation, and no engine noise to get in the way of your spotter's directions. Okay, the likelihood of hitting the Rubicon Trail with this baby
is small, but the idea isn't that far out."
An eccentric group of European adventurers have embarked on an historic road trip across three continents driving a trio of Toledo-made Jeep Wranglers from Paris to New York.
They're going the long way - 27,000 miles on a path that includes about 3,100 miles of mostly roadless Siberian winter wilderness, 50 miles of horribly treacherous ocean, and
1,500 miles of frigid Alaskan coastline.
In 1953 Mark Smith took Jeep across the Sierra Nevada Mountains by way of the old Rubicon trail. This was the beginning of the now famous off-roading family adventure weekend
known as Jeep Jamboree. The event has grown and now several weekends are set aside each year all across
the country for Jeep fans to come together and enjoy a common love of Jeep and the Great Outdoors.
Smith led the 1978-1979 Expedicion de las Americas, a 20,000-mile, 120-day odyssey from the bottom of South America to the top of North America, crossing the
infamous Darien Gap. Smith's adventures have gone beyond the tips of the Americas, he has driven a jeep on every continent except Antarctica.
In February 1958, Colonial Police officers, Roy Follows and Noel Dudgeon purchased an ex-army Willys MB Jeep from scrap yard.
Despite being told the trip was impossible, the friends then embarked on a remarkable 13,000-mile adventure from Singapore to their
home in England.
"People have all sorts of reactions; sometimes they scream, they laugh, they swear, they're completely shocked by what these
vehicles are capable of, and it shows. I love seeing the reactions every time we tackle a seemingly impossible obstacle; people just
can't believe what a Jeep is capable of."
Others tried, but only the "go anywhere, do anything" Jeep vehicles could make it to the top of the volcano. Seventy years after the first
man climbed the world's highest volcano, Ojos del Salado in Chile, two Jeep Wrangler Unlimited vehicles set a new world record by climbing
6,646 meters (21,804 feet) to the volcano's rim. The achievement, certified by Guinness World Records, is not one that is likely to be
easily beaten.
8 Year Journey around the World in the Jeep 'Half Safe'
Frederick Benjamin (Ben) Carlin (1912-1981) was born in Northam, Western Australia. He had seen amphibious Jeeps in India during the war
and decided that one could drive, and swim, around the world. After the war he fetched up in America and determined to buy a Jeep and to
make such a trip.
"The Seabees built a ramp running into the sea and every day Americans drove trucks, jeeps, ambulances, bulldozers, and tractors into the
channel, locking the wheels and jumping free at the last second. Engine blocks cracked and hissed. Some Seabees wept. Ni-Vanuatu
witnessing the destruction of wealth their island would never see again, at least in their lifetimes, thought the Americans had gone
mad."
