The Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival isn’t content with its 2011 Guinness World Record for the largest Jeep parade, so festival organizers are out to break that record this coming summer in Butler.

Festival director Patti Jo Lambert said Tuesday that she hopes to attract more than 2,500 Jeeps to Butler for the festival on June 12-14. The annual festival celebrates the Jeep and the fact that it was invented in Butler.

That many Jeeps in one parade would more than double the current record set in three years ago, when Butler welcomed 1,100 Jeeps in the first year of the festival.

Lambert said festival organizers want to break that record on June 12 when the parade will start at Butler County Community College and end in downtown Butler.

Organizers plan to set up the parade in two waves because Butler can’t handle that many Jeeps in one place at one time.

Lambert said the plan is for 1,300 Jeeps to continue north through the city, while the remaining 1,200 Jeeps would stay downtown for the Jeep Invasion street party as has been done in the past.

Two anniversaries that will coincide with next year’s festival are the impetus for seeking the new record.

“It’s the 75th anniversary of the Jeep and the fifth anniversary of the Jeep festival,” she said. “We thought it was a very appropriate time to resurrect the Jeep parade, and see if we could beat our own record.”

The festival organizer said nearly 2,000 Jeeps came to the festival this year.

“We’re hoping to make a record that would be extremely difficult to break, so Butler can always have that notoriety,” Lambert said.

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