The American Military Vehicle Preservation Association staged an event that saw history on wheels rolling through the historic landscapes of Route 66
Back in 1975, country singer CW McCall captured people’s imagination with a song that included the lines: “We gonna roll this truckin’ convoy, ‘cross the U-S-A. Convoy!” It’s rung down the years and where better to cross the USA by road than on US Route 66? Route 66 is also etched into the folklore of American highways and ingrained in popular culture not least because of the song dedicated to its route, (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66.
The highway’s fame started as its route was travelled by those who migrated west, during the Great Depression of the 1930s especially from places such as the Dust Bowl states, eruditely documented in Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath. The twelve-bar blues song was composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup and its lyrics accurately the path of Route 66 - “Well it winds from Chicago to LA. More than 2000 miles all the way. Get your kicks on Route 66…”
Route 66, established on November 11, 1926, crossed the US continent through eight states from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California in 2,448 miles (3,940 k…
