Photo by Barry Dale Gilfry. National Park Service officials who have worked on the federal grant program dedicated to preserving what’s left of Route 66 say they will continue to support the program ...
We recently came across some of G. Gordon Davis’ renderings on Facebook and not long after landed hip-deep in an amazing collection of Chrysler, Corvette, and various other concept renderings from th...
For this weekend’s Radwood show in Los Angeles, Honda took one of its first Acura SUVs, a 1997 SLX, and not only updated its engine and transmission but also its entire all-wheel-drive system. For th...
As pointed out in this Vox video exploring what made Route 66 America’s favorite road, the highway has essentially been defunct for twice as long as it was an active part of American transportation r...
The folks at TravelEatWOD this week completed a Route 66 road trip in a wrought-iron Beetle. Their sunscreen expense must’ve matched their gas expense… * Esquire this week profiled Joe Ford, a car de...
Photo by Brian Bennett. Following up on a prior post about VW Beetles as art cars, John Heitmann at The Automobile and American Life spent some time this week discussing the one art car that made Vol...
Photo by Thomas Hawk. For 20 years, those looking to revitalize Route 66 have relied on a relatively modest trickle of money from Congress to accomplish their goals — a modest trickle that will soon ...
As you top a rise near Powell, Tennessee, you’ll see the former Nickle filling station, a building in the shape of an airplane that has been the subject of a recent preservation effort. The Nickle br...
Photo by Doug. With less than two months to go in the current Congress, a pair of U.S. Senators have introduced a bill of their own to help in the effort to designate Route 66 a National Historic Tra...
Update to last week’s links to the story of the Wild Cherry van: Chris Carter, the Illinois man who restored the van, has been arrested on felony auto-theft charges and will be extradited to Californ...
Photo by Russell Lee, courtesy Library of Congress. More than any other place in the country, Route 66 in its heyday posed a problem for black motorists. Sundown towns — towns that did not allow blac...
Photo by Emma Nairne. Nations have capitals; states have capitals; roads generally do not. Route 66, however, technically hasn’t been a federally designated road for more than 30 years now — instead,...
Nearly 55 years ago, the Department of Justice’s antitrust division filed a complaint against Studebaker for pricefixing oil additives through its subsidiary, STP. As Automotive News reported, the de...
Photo by Thomas Hawk. Time’s running out to preserve Route 66, the National Trust for Historic Preservation warned. The nonprofit, which has already endorsed the proposal to designate the Mother Road...
Photo by Mobilus in Mobili. Abandoned gas stations and crumbling buildings tend to make up the scenery in many places along Route 66 these days, but a new round of brownfields grants issued to three ...
Retired racer Tommy Kendall doesn’t know much about who painted a 1973 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight yellow and added a rooster head and tail to it, but he’s not complaining, as this Wall Street Journal st...
Photo by Gouldy. While the legislation that aims to declare Route 66 a National Historic Trail cleared its first hurdle this month with a unanimous Congressional committee vote, one town that relies ...
Automotive American gathered several of the stories of California car collections destroyed by the recent (and ongoing) wildfires there. * When driving the Lincoln Highway through Pennsylvania you ma...
Earlier this year, the folks at Moss restored MVC 575, a Triumph TR2 that set a speed record of nearly 125 mph at Jabbeke using its production 2.0-liter engine. * And speaking of historic British rac...
Photo by Tony Hisgett. A proposal to continue preservation efforts for Route 66 by designating it a National Historic Trail received endorsement from the National Park System in a legislative hearing...
Images via Google Street View. A curmudgeon’s repair shop. A block-wide maintenance garage for intercity buses that became an FBI crime lab. A small neighborhood gas station. A radiator man’s small c...
School-bus-into-nomadic-camper conversions are becoming more popular, partly due to stirring wanderlust, partly due to rising house prices, and partly due to the changing nature of work, or so they s...
Route 66 bridge in Winona, Arizona. Photo by Randy Heinitz. Earlier this summer the town of Galena, Kansas, celebrated the restoration of the Front Street Bridge, a span that once carried Route 66 ov...
Photo by Tony Hisgett. Most Route 66 travelers have probably seen – even snapped photos of – the 1968 Pontiac Catalina in Glenrio, Texas. Few, however, probably know the whole story behind the Pontia...
Route 66 in California. Photo by Hannah Swithinbank. With a couple proposals already on the table to preserve Route 66 ahead of the planned defunding of a critical federal program, another option flo...