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re: Did y'all know it's impossible to drive to South America?
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:15 pm to StarkRebel
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:15 pm to StarkRebel
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So this dude chose an old arse 96 land cruiser......he deserved to break down.
dumb comment of the day
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Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:15 pm to boxcarbarney
Sweet colored frog. 
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:16 pm to Y.A. Tittle
a group of jeep guys drove 5-6 CJ's from the tip of south America to Alaska.
You should look it up. I think I saw it on Youtube maybe. I forget his name but he was like the king of jeep folks.
Mark A Smith was the guys name.
You should look it up. I think I saw it on Youtube maybe. I forget his name but he was like the king of jeep folks.
Mark A Smith was the guys name.
This post was edited on 4/11/17 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:16 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Just stay in the car behind the wheel with the engine running while it is being shipped and declare victory
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:22 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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neat idea to just fantasize about,
Bruh
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:29 pm to TheCaterpillar
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What goes down in the Darien Gap?
Bad things man....I mean BAD things.
LINK
This post was edited on 4/11/17 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:32 pm to TexasTiger
Nice Find
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Nurturing an ensuing 20-plus-year relationship with Jeep, Smith convinced the company to back his Expedición de las Americas: a 20,000-mile trip from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Smith’s “Everest” was the Darién Gap, a 250-mile break in the Trans-American Highway between Columbia and Panama. GM attempted to cross the Darién Gap in the 1960s with two Corvairs. The British Army completed the first documented vehicular traverse in 1972. A team of 250 men took 100 days to get two vehicles through.
Mark A. Smith made several logistical trips prior to shipping five basically stock CJ-7s to South America in 1978. His group completed the tip-to-tip trip in 120 days, 30 of which were spent in the Darién Gap. This trip and Smith’s other Jeep adventures are documented in his “journal,” Driven by a Dream (Mark A. Smith Publishing, 2004, www.jeepjamboreeusa.com).
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:32 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Larry Bud Melman did it
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:33 pm to Y.A. Tittle
People didn't know this?
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:33 pm to fatboydave
That's a great place to put a dive bar and call it "The End of The Road".
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:54 pm to Gcockboi
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People didn't know this?
Sort of the point of the thread. I was admitting my ignorance and shocked that I didn't know such a thing. I generally consider myself rather trivially informed and not really sure how I didn't know this until now.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 1:58 pm to Y.A. Tittle
didn't know that either. now i'm furiously searching the interwebs hoping for a youtube series where someone has tried or done it.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 2:05 pm to Boss
In the 1870s, a Naval expedition (I think) got severely ducked up and most died and most who lived died not long after as they couldn't return from weighing 80 pounds.
Their clothes rotted away from the climate.
Their teeth rotted away from eating poisonous nuts.
Their clothes rotted away from the climate.
Their teeth rotted away from eating poisonous nuts.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 2:06 pm to TexasTiger
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This post was edited on 4/28/17 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 4/11/17 at 2:07 pm to Y.A. Tittle
The Darien Gap? Interesting.
I bet there's so much coke being smuggled/stored in that region.
I bet there's so much coke being smuggled/stored in that region.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 2:10 pm to Gcockboi
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There's a youtube series about this guy that drove from Chile to Alaska in an old Volkswagon Kombi. It took him nearly four years to complete, because he kept breaking down and went through like 25 engine rebuilds
So, how the shite did he get a VW van through a 90 mile stretch of roadless jungle?
Posted on 4/11/17 at 2:13 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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So, how the shite did he get a VW van through a 90 mile stretch of roadless jungle?
its not roadless, its just not well marked and really dangerous.
And yes, I knew this. The wife and I have toyed with doing this drive, but the darien makes it pretty expensive to do.
I have driven a good chunk of the pan american highway, including across the panama canal. and into the edge of darien. The wife really wanted to see a harpy eagle, which we didn't get to see.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 2:14 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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This post was edited on 4/28/17 at 2:34 pm
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