Event Coverage Road trip on Rout 66

Elk City tonight, see the museum tomorrow.

 

Had breakfast in Stroud Ok at the Rock Café, The owner was the inspiration for the Porsche II in Cars. neat place and good food.

 

Mike,---What happened to your hot rod??

 

There are miles and miles of historic 66 in Oklahoma, very nice drive today. We've traveled over 2,600 miles so far mostly on two lane US 30 And RT 66. Gas is less than $2.00 per gal. Some pictures of the road.

 

The museum at Clinton Ok. is well done and worth a stop.

 

Mike...sounds like you and your wife are having a great trip. I go past the Clinton Museum all too often...the closest casino to Amarillo is just down the street a few miles past the museum, lol. I think you'll enjoy the Elk City museum. When you get to Shamrock, Texas, the restored Conoco(?) gas station that a previous poster mentioned is just past the McDonalds heading south. BTW, if you were to keep going south on that road for an hour or so, you'd run into Owens Salvage in Wellington....a favorite supplier for many Hambers. If you are religious, a stop in Groom at the largest cross in the western hemisphere will be well worth your time. It's right on I40. If you do the rt 66 thing in Amarillo, you'll be on 6th street 1 1/2 blocks from my house. Hope you post pics of Bill's Backyard Classics...that place needs some exposure.

 

Great pics. Looks like you're having a ball.

 

Thanks for the posts, were loving it on this end.

 

YEeeeHaw! Lone Star beer tonight.

 

Went to the Museum complex in elk city, nicely done but the Rt 66 Museum is only a small part of it. There's a lot to see but I'll only post the 66 part.

 

It's a walk through like the one yesterday, here's some more pictures.

 

Then on to Amarillo TX. for the night. Saw some things along the way. Most of 66 is frontage roads along side I 40 with side trips on the alignments that go through small towns, we are getting better at staying on the old route, I like the slower pace on the frontage roads. Some times we get a glimpse of an earlier alignment that has been abandoned and over grown.

 

Well that didn't work the way I expected it to. Had lunch in Shamrock and saw the restored station. Who ever recommended Big Vern's Steak house was right, great food. There was some concern about Shamrock on another thread, not to worry there's a lot to see there and folks are friendly. I gots to get me one of these trucks.

 

Back on the road, we saw a leaning tower and a big cross.

 

Then on to Conway for a tune up to get ready for the Cadillac ranch.
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Not sure what happened here but you get the drift of the post, I'm going to have a beer and some popcorn now.

 

In case you're wondering about the spray painting/grafitti. That started at the Cadilac Ranch years ago...was actually encouraged there, so bring along a spray bomb and add your name. Got to be hundreds of layers

 

Or I could just scratch my mark in the paint that's there. I've seen lots of places where they leave markers out for people to leave a mark. My name is on the***** house door at Carrol Shelby's shop in Vegas.

 

we are in Santa Rosa Nm. tonight. Went t Bill's backyard Classics this mourning. WOW! what a collection, I'll pst a million pictures later this evening. I met bill and his wife and sons. They drive every car on a 30 day rotation and start them weekly. Then on to the Cadillac Ranch, other than being an old RT.66 attraction this is nothing special, just looks like a mess to me. Got out my cutamajig and started carving to see how thick the pant was, never reached metal after a little over an inch deep .

 

Bill's Backyard Classics, Amarillo Tx.

 

More

 

And more.

 

Then on down the road, saw a two story filling station.

 

And the old Bent Door Café, really dilapidated.

 

The Half Way Marker.

 

Just past the beat up remains of the old Longhorn Motel at the state line the old rout turns to dirt so we back tracked and crossed in to New Mexico on I 40.

 

The blue Swallow Motel, Kind of rough looking.

 

The old rout turned to***** for a little bit, but it got better. Looked like we just missed some flooding. Don't worry you can always back track and bypass the places you don't want to take your car on I 40. This is the wife's car so I just forged on.

 

The Blue Swallow motel...in Tucemcarie?, and do you remember where the 2 story filling station was?
Bill's Backyard Classics...I think if I walked in there and won the grand door prize (just dreaming) of being allowed to take home one car, I'd have a nervous breakdown trying to figure out which ONE I wanted. The black 64 Starfire would have to be one of the finalists, or maybe the burgundy pinstripped '57(?) Caddy, or, no...the '58 dark silver Chieftan, or.....

 

The 1920's Magnolia gas station was in Vega Nm. The Blue Swallow is in Tucumcari. the dirt road section (formerly paved) is from Glenrio to San Jon.

 

There's another Auto museum just down the street from here that looks good so I'll visit it Saturday.