Comments on: Route 66 Established 82 Years Ago Today

By: Found on Road Alive: 1972 Chevy Chevelle SS | Los Angeles Metblogs

Found on Road Alive: 1972 Chevy Chevelle SS | Los Angeles Metblogs — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:01:16 +0000

[...] wonder how many times this beast ran up old Route 66? (Shameless plug for the post Julia did on the topic [...]

By: Matt Mason

Matt Mason — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:59:20 +0000

Duh, that would be “fabulous book.”

By: Matt Mason

Matt Mason — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:58:42 +0000

I’m dying to get on Route 66. I have a fabulous about it with lots of history and photos, have read some of the websites, and am mildly obsessed. Count me in! Needless to say, classic eats will be eated, yes eated, on ole Route 66.

By: frazgo

frazgo — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:17:19 +0000

I was a kid when we made the big “California Trip” in an RV in 1972. I remember large parts, mostly TX, NM, AZ and big chunks of the CA desert and parts of the SGV was “Route 66″. Two lane roads, lots of “belly grabber” dips, twists and accidents. The Interstates may have smoothed out the trip and made it faster but a lot of the character that was there was bowled over and given the chain treatment.

I still would like to retrace old Route 66. I”ve done a few parts in recent years, but would like to do even more of it. Preferably in my 1972 Centurion, but I’d need riders to offset its thirst for premium and 10mpg on a good level stretch.

I always find the irony in that I now live blocks from Route 66 that first took me here and that one of my best friends in town just happens to own the Aztec and has brought that icon back to life and restored it to is original 30′ state.

I’d have to dig hard for pics to share as most are old silver I never digitized to put up on flickr. Lemme look around a bit.