Route 66

Route 66 runs right by my house, and I frequently ride my CSC motorcycle on it.  It’s one of the benefits of being out here in California.  Route 66….to me, it’s a road, a ride, and a TV show.  You guys my age or older know what I’m talking about…

Buzz, Todd, and the Corvette...a winning formula back in the early 1960s

I used to never miss Route 66 when I was a kid…it starred Martin Milner, George Maharis, and one of the greatest automobiles to ever come down the pike…the Chevy Corvette!   I wonder what ever happened to the original Route 66 Corvettes.  Finding one of those would be a real score.   The Corvette will have been in production 60 years next year.  Wow!

Nothing on television these days compares to the black and white shows in the 60s.   Martin Milner and George Maharis…great actors in a great show.  Both those guys are in their 80s now, and they’re both still out here in California.  Martin Milner has an avocado ranch down near San Diego somewhere.  I think George Maharis lives in Santa Monica.   One of my friends saw him in a coffee shop a few years ago.

I subscribe to the New York Times on the weekend (it’s slanted way, way to the left, but the writing is good and the stories are substantially better than what passes for journalism out here on the Left Coast).   I was enjoying the Sunday edition with my Wheaties this morning, and to my great delight I saw this great article on the Route 66 show.  The article talked about the show a bit, the actors, the Corvette, and a new set of DVDs.  Seems you can buy the whole Route 66 series (all four years of it, from 1960 to 1964) on DVD now, and I may just do that.

The Route 66 show made a powerful impression on me, and it’s probably why I wanted a ‘Vette ever since I can remember.  I finally realized that dream a few years ago, and it’s been every bit as good as I thought it would be.  The first night I owned that car I downloaded the theme song from the old Route 66 television show and put it on a CD.   That’s pretty cool stuff…riding around in a Z-06 with the Route 66 theme song blasting from the Bose speakers.   Not quite as cool as the new CSC Bobber, but still pretty cool…

Realizing your dreams is a pretty cool thing to do.