WORTH TWP — Visitors to the Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival this weekend will have a car celebrity in their midst.

Jeff Allen, star of the CNBC series “The Car Chasers” and iTunes podcast “Skidmarks Show” will hit the festival to visit with fans and to do some rugged Jeep riding of his own.

He will arrive today and will be at the Pennzoil area at Cooper’s Lake Campground.

The festival begins tonight at the campground with the first ever “Night Ride.”

It continues at the campground Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

The Jeep Invasion is 6 to 10 p.m. Friday in downtown Butler.

Regarding his first visit to the Jeep festival, Allen said, “We’re going there more for the fan interaction, and we’re also going to do some of the trails that they have set up with the Jeep.”

“The Car Chasers” ran 33 episodes over three seasons on CNBC from 2013-2015, following Allen and his team, including his wife, Meg Bailey, who make up Flat 12 gallery, a Dallas-based automobile dealership, as they seek out, buy, and resell collectors automobiles.

Allen has bought and sold cars from celebrities and has supplied cars for movies, including the car that a young James Kirk drove off a cliff in the 2009 film “Star Trek.”

Also in the Flat Gallery 12 showroom are cars from the movies “Fast & Furious” and “Fast & Furious 6.”

“I like finding stuff that’s unique,” Allen said. “When you come into my shop, no two cars are alike.”

“Skidmarks Show” was a passion project for Allen that he’d wanted to do for several years and got the opportunity in June 2015 with Ethan D.

“I’ve listened to several podcasts out there, and I wanted something that left the listener wanting more and wanting to tune them in there every week,” Allen said. “We came up with a theme that I was really into cars, and my co-host is really into rock and roll.”

That combination has been a been a winning formula. Skidmarks released 12 episodes last year and are in the middle of a 24-episode run this season.

“Every time we release an episode we’re in the top five,” Allen said.

Even with his popularity, he still stays busy at Flat 12 Gallery. It was there that he heard about the festival from his customers.

“They’d come back and their Jeeps are all covered in mud, and there’s (festival) stickers on them,” Allen said. “It just seemed like a lot of camaraderie.”

That was all the motivation needed for Allen, a Jeep man himself. Allen estimated he’s owned 40 Jeeps in his lifetime, and even sold Jeeps for a short period.

Allen will be driving a Pennzoil Jeep that he’s never driven before.

He and his Flat 12 Gallery team will give away 200 T-shirts that say “Because Mud” on them.

They also will be presenting 12 “Flat Out” awards to, as he said, “the Jeeps that we just think are awesome.”