Route 66 road trip

Tried them awaiting a reply, there only ones I can find but they don't seem to have any cars available for my dates

I did Route 66 in 2007 on a Harey - and around the same time so did hardcore..

Its an amazing trip, get ourself a guide book if you can, I organised my trip though eagle riders and had a rough day by day guide book that highlighted places to see.. I'd love to go back again

amazing place.

I'm afraid I can't help much with finding an old classic to do the route in, but for places to visit feel free to have a leaf through the photos I took when I did the trip back in 2007.

I think I've geotagged most, if not all of them, so anything that catches your eye will be on the map! That includes interesting car-related stuff here and there - there's a great museum/dealer in St Louis, Missouri you'll see fairly early on in the photos, and there's a good Route 66 Auto Museum in Santa Rosa, NM.

Likewise, we got our timings all wrong to watch a movie at the drive-in theatre in Carthage, Missouri, but I bet that'd be awesome. Then there's Cadillac Range near Amarillo. While you're in LA the Petersen museum is well worth a visit (I went on my last trip to the US last year, also to be found on my Flickr page) and if you're swinging by Vegas, there's another auto museum/auction lot in The Quad, opposite Caesar's Palace. Vegas is probably worth a detour for itself, but it's worth spending a few days there as it can be a bit full-on and rushed if you try and pay a flying visit.

Oatman in California is on part of the old route, which is quite cool. It's an old wild-west style town. A tourist trap, but an amusing one.

Our trip was in the other direction, so we started in Chicago (so read this post backwards to see stuff in order!). Chicago itself is a great city but can get rather hot in the summer. Route 66 has plenty of old, quirky stops in the early states but signposting is variable - not difficult to lose the route altogether.

The logistics might be, let's say, involved, but buying a car there and sell it on the East coast or back here can be interesting...

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There are plenty of suitable cars you can buy there for less than $10k, and that would be a lot more valuable here. Also West coast cars tend to fetch more in the East because of rust being much less of a problem.

The logistics of buying a car can be hideously complicated, but it varies from state to state. I've looked into it a few times as they concept appeals.

I've no idea what LA is like, but starting in Chicago it's not really possible unless you know someone out there willing to register the car at their address, and probably insure it there too.

But I'm led to believe that buying a car in somewhere like Nevada is much simpler. Okay, so that's not great for the whole trip, but you could feasibly do LA-Vegas in a rental and sort out a car to buy there. But then, I'm not sure how simple it'd be to sell in Chicago - all the more complicated when you've got only a few days left at the end of the trip before you hop back on a plane.

Only the museum link works unfortunately, but I see what you mean - some of our shots are near-identical! Some cars just have certain great angles, don't they?