{"id":218322,"date":"2026-06-13T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218322\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:03:10","slug":"bantam-jeep-heritage-festival-takes-over-main-street-in-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218322\/","title":{"rendered":"Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival takes over Main Street in Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was total Jeep takeover of Main Street in Butler on Friday night as the annual Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival was\u00a0underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The annual &#8220;invasion&#8221; of Main Street brought thousands of Jeep enthusiasts to Butler as the first day of the festival at Coopers Lake Campground was well underway.<\/p>\n<p>The annual festival is a tribute to the father of all Jeeps, along with the history and the birthplace of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Bantam Jeep, designed in Butler County, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/bantam-jeep-butler-county-world-war-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">credited with helping the Allies win World War II.<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 85 years after it first rolled out of Butler, the Bantam Jeep is still turning heads. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/download-2.png#.png\" alt=\"download-2.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The &#8220;invasion&#8221; of Main Street in Butler was held Friday night as the Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival got underway at nearby Coopers Lake Campground.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Photojournalist Bryce Lutz<\/p>\n<p>Some Jeep owners say they come back for the festival year after year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Awesome,&#8221; said Kimberly Jones, of Mercer County. &#8220;Jeep people are so awesome. We&#8217;ll help each other out if we need to. We stick together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The festival will run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was total Jeep takeover of Main Street in Butler on Friday night as the annual Bantam Jeep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4112,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-218322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-butler-county","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}