Circa 1978 Overlanding - 5 CJ's and 1 Wagoneer (22,000 miles over 122 days)

AndyG said:
One thing that surprised me was somehow a welder was brought along or available... Outside of a generator I'm sure electricity was non-existent.
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From what I was able to piece-together of the video footage; it looked like the Wagoneer, which trailed the 5 CJ's, was loaded down with everything imaginable (a whole bunch of Jerry cans), to possibly include a butane-powered welding kit, or some such (?).
 
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xxdabroxx said:
I feel like I've seen another video similar to this on motorcycles but I may be misremembering. Maybe it was just part of On any Sunday or one of those videos.


Getting a little off track here but dust to glory was great too.

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Excellent vids, there. "On Any Sunday" rocked my world as a little kid. I went on to dive deep into Moto-X in '73.

The way Malcom Smith is shown smiling, after charging around the clock in extreme terrain, is the same way I smile after just 15 minutes of wheeling :).
 
Is it me or was this just a different generation of men...

Talk about an 84 day kitchen pass..

I bet these were the kind of guys smoked unfiltered camels , either had one wife or 5... Built businesses without even thinking about it much.. made millions... Maybe even went broke a few times, drove convertibles around with a Schlitz between their legs, flirted with 15 year old waitresses at the local diner , photographed Bigfoot, hunted bighorn sheep , shot sharks from helicopters ...

And if someone walked up to them and asked what they've been doing, they would say "not much , it's been kinda quite around"
 
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AndyG said:
Is it me or was this just a different generation of men...

Talk about an 84 day kitchen pass..

I bet these were the kind of guys smoked unfiltered camels , either had one wife or 5... Built businesses without even thinking about it much.. made millions... Maybe even went broke a few times, drove convertibles around with a Schlitz between their legs, flirted with 15 year old waitresses at the local diner , photographed Bigfoot, hunted bighorn sheep , shot sharks from helicopters ...

And if someone walked up to them and asked what they've been doing, they would say "not much , it's been kinda quite around"
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It does appear they were a different breed of men--shaped by an era which faded fast with the onset of the "Interweb" - and its subsequent re-shaping of the contemporary male paradigm. The average male now spends so much time engrossed-by or affected by audio-visual system-overload and EMR, it's a wonder we're able to crawl out of the "blue brain" cloud long enough to spend any amount of time in the elements--the best therapy on the planet.

And so my primary attraction to the Jeep--a means to get deep into the elements, where all that is heard is the wind listing through the trees, the birds chirping, water running through a creek, and of course the occasional "wurrp...wurrp...wurrp" of the 4.0L engine :).

Reflecting upon the bygone era in question; I had a small taste of such while in the Navy (in a previous century), wherein I once spent 63 days inside the Arctic Circle, doing hair-raising things while interacting with the Russian navy. Being in the elements, to the extreme; and with the daily extremes of sheer terror in one moment and terminal boredem in the next; and while also responding-to and interacting-with the elements by the minute; it made for a paradigm worlds apart from the contemporary ("post-modern") and cosmopolitan lifestyles which most of us are now subject to.

Anyone game for the Overlanding Nomad lifestyle?

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It’s amazing what they did with those Jeeps back then, in ‘78 I was 20 years old I would have gladly gone but I didn’t move to Georgetown until 20 years after the expedition. I think the Jeep line would have faded away years ago if not for Mark Smith, we certainly wouldn’t have the famous Rubicon Trail or the Jeep model named after it.

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Awesome , I loved that video. How many real men does it take to drive a Jeep through the jungle ? I loved the walk ahead guys , machetes, pistols for bad guys and Jaguars probably.
 
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AndyG said:
Awesome , I loved that video. How many real men does it take to drive a Jeep through the jungle ? I loved the walk ahead guys , machetes, pistols for bad guys and Jaguars probably.
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I get a kick out of the Jeep on a raft picture with one of the party wearing a Mark Spitz ‘76 Olympics swimsuit.
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You know I'm taking the day to go see @Hog and do some work on his Sahara... My wife wasn't thrilled.

Can you imagine saying honey I'm going to drive across South America I'll see you about October.
 
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