Route 66 Cruisin Reunion
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I'm not quite sure I understand this but the city of Ontario California holds
a Route 66 Crusin Reunion even though Route 66 doesn't go thought their city.
This was the second annual event. When the city of San Bernardino filed for
bankruptcy they could no longer fund the Route 66 Rendezvous so the city of
Ontario decided to start this Crusin Reunion. The car to the left is a 1967
Pontiac Lemans with a 326 V8. This was one of my early cars and is the very
same color. Of course I wished it was a GTO.. but hey to me it was a race car.
<grin> I was always working on it, changing carburetors, cam shafts, why I even
replaced the 2 speed automatic with a 4 speed stick shift. |
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I was a big MOPAR fan and in particular Chrysler. In 1968 I was 13 years old
and started getting Hot Rod magazine. My favorite cars were the Plymouth
Road Runner, shown to the left, and the Hemi Cudda. I never really knew how
they got the abbreviation BBL for barrel so I just looked it up and its a
term used for the abbreviation of an oil barrel. Kind of ironic that in the
late 60's they used a term like this and just a few short years later the Arab
Oil Embargo and EPA regulations teamed up to kind of kill the Muscle Car. |
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This is one huge car show and they say it is 2 miles of cars and I believe
it. The young lady to the left was having fun cruising all around the show.
She actually was not driving it was remote controlled by her father but she
didn't care. The guy who owned the VW Bus also owned the restored bicycles
and scooters. |
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