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10-03-2011, 05:03 PM
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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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10-03-2011, 05:10 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
very cool vid!
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10-03-2011, 07:27 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
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Nigel. An American living in a British body. 1971 Chevy Cheyenne 10 454 "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty" - Thomas Jefferson No more pain. 03.12.60 -- 12.28.10 http://www.youtube.com/Eightbanger |
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10-03-2011, 07:55 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
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10-03-2011, 08:06 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
Cool VID............ Truck looked great to.......
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10-03-2011, 09:13 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
Made to be driven.
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10-03-2011, 09:58 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
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.
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10-03-2011, 11:01 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
Very nice video! I also liked it at 1:36, but I'm weird like that (see my sig)
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10-04-2011, 10:42 AM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
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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10-04-2011, 11:26 AM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
 Awesome!!!!
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10-04-2011, 01:07 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
Very cool Video. I like the trike he rides to! One day I hope I'll make that ride.
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10-04-2011, 01:38 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
Nice. To the point. I'll have to check him out on the telly.
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10-04-2011, 02:48 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
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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10-04-2011, 07:00 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
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Anywho this guy "Gonnynodaythat1" seems to have uploaded the lot on Youtube
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10-04-2011, 09:32 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
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 Thanks for the vids, I hope to catch the whole series some day.
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10-04-2011, 10:07 PM
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10-05-2011, 07:21 AM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
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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10-05-2011, 08:59 AM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
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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10-06-2011, 05:51 AM
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 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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10-06-2011, 06:47 AM
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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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10-06-2011, 11:55 AM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
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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10-06-2011, 01:17 PM
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Cool pic! that bridge looks like it's single lane traffic only.
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10-06-2011, 05:03 PM
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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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10-06-2011, 05:54 PM
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Re: One of ours on Route 66
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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