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Alaska to Cape Horn
Without reading me through all the posts I only like to commantate: About 25 years or more , as far as I remember, a group with four or five CJ7 (I can check it with suffisiant time im my literature!) made it from Alaska to Cape Horn, the Pan American Highway by that time did not exist somewere from southern Mexico to somewere in Bolivia. And the US guys succeded.
The Dakar in the beginning was not joint by US-teams. I was in a group which discussed to join the Dakar with a Willys Jeep, a Dodge WC52 and a Jimmy as a team to prove that also WWII veterans are able to cover the Dakar successfuly. This was 1981 to 1982. The enterprise was stopped due to lac of time of the possible participants (Sorry, we had to work for our money.). The money to finance the vehicles was available! A french comrade of mine did it with an ANTAR 5/4 ton French Army truck without special preparations in 1982 or 1983. I do not remember the year precicely. He finished in time! And got the fairness cup, which by that time was still presented to the most fair team.
Without reading me through all the posts I only like to commantate: About 25 years or more , as far as I remember, a group with four or five CJ7 (I can check it with suffisiant time im my literature!) made it from Alaska to Cape Horn, the Pan American Highway by that time did not exist somewere from southern Mexico to somewere in Bolivia. And the US guys succeded.
The Dakar in the beginning was not joint by US-teams. I was in a group which discussed to join the Dakar with a Willys Jeep, a Dodge WC52 and a Jimmy as a team to prove that also WWII veterans are able to cover the Dakar successfuly. This was 1981 to 1982. The enterprise was stopped due to lac of time of the possible participants (Sorry, we had to work for our money.). The money to finance the vehicles was available! A french comrade of mine did it with an ANTAR 5/4 ton French Army truck without special preparations in 1982 or 1983. I do not remember the year precicely. He finished in time! And got the fairness cup, which by that time was still presented to the most fair team.
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