Pillman7

Route 66 TV show is on tonight at 9 pm eastern on FETV channel 323 on Directv

capevettes

Love that show. But the Bruins are in the Stanley Cup finals tonight. I do have the DVD set of Route 66, so I can watch any time.

narlee

Been watching for a while now, there is a lot more drama then I remember. Tod raced a boat today, who knows what tomorrow. Met Martin Milner a few years back at a Route 66 event along with Michael Wallis who is one of the foremost authorities on Rt 66 and wrote the book "Route 66: The Mother Road".

gilbybarr

vettebuyer6369

Shoulda watched the damn car show,

capevettes

That's for Sure!

Frankie the Fink

The series is a nostalgic look back at a simpler time, but, by today's "action TV series" standards some episodes drag on and can seem a bit boring....you have to watch them in context with the times...

dr914

my parents would never let me watch it because the show had "adult themes". So much later when I was finally old enough and turned 62 I bought the whole series on dvd and watched one episode every night until I had watched them all. Series was never the same when Buzz left, but the c2 was the better corvette!!! Really great seeing a kinder gentler america in black and white

vdavenp802

Anyone know what kind of wheels were used in the early episodes came from.
They are wire wheels, with large whitewalls of course. I don't think those were factory?
I have the CD's but the TV is easier and I can record them s well.
This is when and why I fell in love with Corvettes.

68hemi

You need to get the box set. Cheap on Amazon. I did not get into it until after my newfound love affair with the 1963 Corvette coupe from the pre-announcement show on Bonanza.

61 Roadster

There was an article in Vette Vues Magazine written by Bill Ogden in 2014. Apparently they were Dayton Wire wheels with a knock off adapter. The "Route 66" 1961 Corvette had them on for the first half of the first season until Todd had to sell them to raise money.

GTOguy

The first season aired in 1960 with a ( I think) red '60 model. It was replaced shortly after with a Jewel Blue '61. which was replaced with a Fawn Beige '62. The red photographed poorly in black and white, Jewel Blue was better, and Fawn Beige photographed the best. So the '63 Sting Ray was, of course, Saddle Tan.

vdavenp802

Thanks, that solves my 50 year mystery.....

426 Hemi

Other than selling the wheels, where did these guys get their money?

juanvaldez

They always had some kind of job. In one episode they were working offshore on a drilling rig.

Frankie the Fink

IIRC the Corvette was inherited - but that was part of the whole "freedom" theme of the show - these two guys going across the country doing odd jobs and getting into various situations. There are many series that followed the same paradigm - such as "Then Came Bronson"...

426 Hemi

Then there's Easy Rider. Score a big dope deal with Phil Spector and we're on our way.

juanvaldez

Yep, the only thing is father left him.

Frankie the Fink

You have to have what the Hollywood types call a "willing suspension of disbelief" to buy into the whole modern pioneer "road jockey" theme....

You know Todd and Buzz were getting all the hot babes when they pulled into some remote town with one suitcase on the luggage carrier with one extra set of underwear and after driving 300 miles in an open-cockpit C1 in desert heat all day.

They both would have smelled like the azz of a bear...

426 Hemi

Frank, Frank, Frank-------------Dont'ch know, that's what Old Spice and Hai Karate were for.