Great Smoky Mtn Jeep Invasion 2024 "Non-Ducker's" Perspective

[@bigfishlarrywentworth9588]

Great job I enjoyed that!👍

[@Smoke-LXXV]

Great content, bud!

[@civilianjeeps]

@@Smoke-LXXV thanks!

[@bluejeeper1]

I appreciate your video and the Jeeps you showed in this video! Our outlook on the Jeep culture aligns the same. The tacky look the JK, JL and JT crowd seems to love makes me throw up! And the ducks are the dumbest thing I have seen. I like the older and actually used Jeeps and wondered if there were more than a handful at that event. Its still not one I would attend due to the over crowded tacky Jeeps. But you showed some very nice and well built ones in your video. Nice job!

[@civilianjeeps]

@@bluejeeper1 glad you enjoyed it! I’ve been to many Jeep shows and even though this one can be extremely tacky, it is the one with the most 1986 and older jeeps. I’d say out of the 22,000 jeeps in attendance you’ll see 15 percent are older models. A lot of nicely built trail rigs too. It just seems that most of the other KZbin channels that cover this event focus their videos on ducks, light bars, and new wranglers with stickers. Which gives this event a bad image. If you come and talk to the people in the parking lot (with tastes that align with yours) you’ll enjoy the event!

[@JeepTJ1999]

I concur with you on The Great Smoky Mountain Jeep Invasion. I enjoy that most or majority of the Jeep owners are still right-winged beliefs which equals our freedoms & that is the essence of the Jeep brand. Don't get me wrong, I do LOVE the older Jeeps like the initial MBs, CJs, Willys, FC-150s & 170s, etc. I'd have one of each if I could afford it & open a Jeep Museum & still drive/use them, but I also do really like even the newer well-build Jeeps created for off-road use. I am like you that they can have the "just-for-show" stuff, but a well-built like Motorbilt or Genright Jeep JK, JL, JT is also awesome to me. As always, great video & I love your content. I do not have a mechanical history growing up, but because I live in the era of KZbin, I was able to rebuild a 1999 TJ from the ground up & I did 99% of it by myself including repainting, body modifications, clutch, engine rebuild, ball joints, etc. The only thing I didn't tackle on my own was the re-gearing because I know that takes experience under proper supervision to get it right. That id my off-road crawler machine & I have a JL that is my overland vehicle.

[@dannyeadens7808]

I disagree with paying for vip parking. Well worth the money to have a guaranteed parking spot in my opinion. Sure beats parking on the street getting parking tickets.

[@NathanRittenhouse-i7d]

What are the dates they put on this Jeep event?

[@civilianjeeps]

Usually the last full weekend (before Labor Day) of August every year. This year it was the 22nd-24th.

[@NathanRittenhouse-i7d]

@@civilianjeeps Thanks

[@NathanRittenhouse-i7d]

@@civilianjeeps I’m working on a cj5. 1976 model going back like it was