[Closed] OK with all this interest in Cross-Country trips what would you like to drive?

A Trabant!!!!!

Dan I am originally from the St. Louis area and used to travel the state of Missouri. Very little of the original route66 still exists today. Today most of what used to be the route of route 66 is now I44. You can still drive small parts of the old highway if you get into a town as the old highway is in somes cases just a business route. In the early eighties, I drove my 1961 Corvette to Chicago and then followed what was left of the route through Oklahoma and then back to St. Louis. I was a lot younger then and a lot skinnier and the lack of A/C didn't seem to bother me then. I still have the Vette but only drive it to local cruiseins now.

Bob, have you been to Ted Drewes? I believe it's on Route 66. Hey, I'm craving a concrete now!

Pete isn't the last Pic of Wigwam in Fontana, CA?

Those Concrete tents? used to be white with Red trim around the windows.

Here's my version of your dream car that I built back in the '70s with a Corvair engine and transaxle... not a VW bus and not a Porche engine, but other than that... exactly the same...

I'll bet you had fun with that one.

Corvairs would slip easily into Ghias and transporters but the rounded rear of the Bug made it necessary to do a little cutting.

If you swapped out a Porsche engine with stock muffler the easiest thing to do was angle the ends of the muffler at about a 45 degree angle.

Extractor exhausts eliminated a lot of cutting but eliminated the heater boxes.

Holy cow Pete... we lived about a mile away from Ted Drewes and those famous concrete shakes. Founded in 1928 they still offer a two for one price on their frozen custard when you show up in your collector car. Over the years I have met several nice people who were doing the route 66 tour and Ted Drewes was always a must stop on their trip. Do you live in the St. Louis area?

It's actually Rialto, which is pretty close to Fontana. It has really gone downhill.

The sign out front said "Do it in a Tee Pee". Notice the bars on the windows too! There was a chain of these Wig Wam villages across the country, two were on Rte66, this one and one in Holbrook, Arizona. I think these are the only two left. I slept in the one in Arizona in 2007 when I did a road trip to Tulsa. Each one is decorated differently. It really takes you back in time.

No, Bob. I live in Los Angeles. I've been thru St. Louis quite a few times and always stop for a concrete when I'm in town.

I noticed the bars but did not mention. So true how times change. Just like Hope, Sucks!

OK I'm stupid or at least uninformed, What is a "Concrete"?

David a concrete is the name Ted Drewes calls their extra thick malts and shakes. They are so thick that when they serve them to you, they turn them upside down and they don't run or fall out of the cup. This place really is incredible...on any night from May through October they have twelve serving windows and there's usually a line at each window at least ten people deep. They stay open until there's no one left...I have seen them serving as late as 3:00AM. November and December they sell Christmas trees and January through April they spend in Florida. Quite a business.