One of ours on Route 66
 

Well I thought I would share this with you guys and in the hope that this trucks owner maybe a board memeber...It's a show here in the U.K with one of my favorite comedians Billy Connolly were he is traveling the entire length of the mother road, so for me it's got it all, Connolly, America & Route 66, well you can imagine my added jump outta my chair excitment when I saw him pass a 71/72 Pickup in last weeks episode.

It's short but sweet...jump to 2.04 if you want.

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very cool vid!

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Yeah looking forward to the final ep this week were he reaches Cali, I edited this to give you guys an idea of the show and to include the Truck.

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:agree: :c2:

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Cool VID............ Truck looked great to.......

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Made to be driven.

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Cool vid, Me and the wife are working on doing all of Route 66 just like half of Illinois and from Albuquerque Nm to LA. Something all should see.:metal:

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Very nice video! I also liked it at 1:36, but I'm weird like that (see my sig):)

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I remember getting to travel 66 as a kid with my Dad, then another time with Mom and Step dad. Back in the early 1970's, believe it or not but Interstate 40 was not finished so you would get put off on to 66 a many places. To this day I will get off the main interstate and travel the state highways. When I go to Florida at X-mas I will run down the state road from Tallahassee to Clearwater, a calming drive through northern Florida.

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:clap: Awesome!!!!

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Very cool Video. I like the trike he rides to! One day I hope I'll make that ride.;):chevy:

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Nice. To the point. I'll have to check him out on the telly.

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Cool, Looks like a good show so I tried searching but couldn't find anything that said it will air in the US. Maybe a DVD will be available.

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Not sure if CH4 is avaiable abroad like the BBC.

Anywho this guy "Gonnynodaythat1" seems to have uploaded the lot on Youtube

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Billy Connolly cracks me up. I used to hear him on Sirius radio all the time.

Sometimes I think we take for granted what an amazing country we live in. Everyone should drive across the USA at least one time in their lives. I did it on my Harley a while back. Here to Maine, down the east coast and kitty corner back up to Seattle. I also did a ride down the pacific coast, cut over to Vegas, Arizona, Grand Canyon, Utah ... Cool memories that I will embellish to the max when I tell my grand kids :lol:

Thanks for the vids, I hope to catch the whole series some day.

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I couldn't agree more, the wife and i take out vacations now just to ride. Drive the old US highways sure it takes longer but you will see so much. Or drive the interstate and see nothing, long live the original way!!!

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That's a really cool documentary done in a cool style.It's sure a special ride down 66 and even cooler back when it was continuous and totally alive. There are so many old historic Hiways in America that you never hear trumped up. They are all good and my preferred way to travel. US30,The Lincoln Hiway,goes clear across America. So,does US50 from Ocean City,MD to LA. But,even lesser roads are awesome journeys through the real America. US11,US29,and US301 are some great north-south routes in the East that I like to travel. And,I have traveled US40,The National Pike,more miles than I could count...all my life. It started as a stage coach trail and goes from NJ to NV. Most of these road,LIke US66,have the new interstate running parallel,occasionally across,and sometimes combined on the same track. It's a true luxury to be able to take the time and take the old way and leave all the rush-rush to the rest.

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I saw a cool PBS documentary on the Lincoln highway a few weeks ago.

Also i was reading that Billy Connolly flipped the trike outside of Flagstaff and ended up in the hospital for a week during filming.

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You took a stage coach??????? i was thinking you were a little younger than that :lol:

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No way! That was those who followed. I blazed the dang trail :ito:

I'd love to take the Lincoln Hwy cross country. I travel it in Western PA a good bit on my MC. Route 50 the same thing. One day when I have the time I'll do it.

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Yeah broke a rib apparently, he got his hand caught between the cruise lever or something...reckons he wont be using cruise for the rest of the journey.:lol:

My wife & I talked many times of doing this drive, like so many others it was top of our list of adventures to have in the great U.S

I would love to travel all those old U.S routes SK mentioned...if you wanna get to know America and it's people that would sure be the way to do it.

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I love Route 66. Once I finish my 68 Impala I def going to take it on a good stretch of the road.

Kansas only has a tiny section of road on Route 66, but it has one of the coolest bridges around I think!

Here is my 96 Impala SS taken a few years ago on that bridge :)
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He talked about that in the series that R66 only runs through the bottom corner of the state of Kansas.

Cool pic! that bridge looks like it's single lane traffic only.

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Yup only about 13 miles I think.

Yeah its a small gap, but the actual road is right beside the bridge, so the bridge is just a turn off to take pics and park on :) Not one car passed us that whole time we were there, was nice.

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Just watched the last episode tonight...I swear I had a tear in my eye, it was brilliant, Billy Connolly was perfect for this series.
When he spoke in the series it was of a place and people he obviously loves as I do, and the program makers showed the U.S in a way that it deserves to be shown, full of beauty and contrasts, populated by folks doing their own thing and rightly proud of their land & home, and always happy to welcome a stranger.

I'm proud to be British....but, God Bless America.

Off my soap box.

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My dad and I did route 66 from Holbrook to Kingman last June.
Attachment 810836 This is at the Wikkiup in Holbrook.
Attachment 810837 Probably the most recognizable place on the old Road, The Snow Cap.
Attachment 810838 Neat ole place, I think Pixar liked it too.
Attachment 810839 Donkeys in Oatman AZ. Old mining town that when the miners left, they left their burros and they roam all over.

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I've been on that road many times,in my '64 Galaxie and even in the '69 GMC. Since the big rains a few years ago the stretch from Barstow Calif. to the Colorado river is pretty rough.
There used to be an old wreck of a depression era car way down in a gully between Oatman and Kingman Ariz. that sat there for probably 70 years but recently some guy pulled it out and put it in his front yard in Oatman Ariz. Shame really,I used to look down at that wreck and imagine what must have happened to some poor Okie and his family back during the dust bowl.

Was that another Chevy truck at 1:31+ ? Maybe a '74-'78 (went by pretty quick)?

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The new Mexico rt 66 motor tour is scheduled for June 7-9,2012.starts in tucumcari and ends in Gallup. This year they are taking the old rt thru Santa fe too which should be fun. You can find info by querying on rt 66 motor tour new
Mexico. if you're anywhere near nm come over w your trucks and have some fun
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This is very cool, thanks for the tip to see the pickup in the video.

Shouldn't there be a dedicated thread, such as Getting Your Kicks On Route 66 pictures? I live south of Ashfork AZ, have been on some parts with my MINI, would like to take The Green Barge and take more pictures.

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