Loved watching this whole 66 trip... thanks for all the great information... end of April hopefully ill be driving the mother road... watching these has got me seriously in the mood ... cheers 🇬🇧😊👍
IMO...... Your 55 wagon is a national treasure of the Route 66 and should be preserved in a car museum for generations of enthusiasts to enjoy because I am sure they got a lot of stories to tell if the car could talk while on the road. Thank you SO MUCH for everything YOU HAVE DONE in preserving American history and it is always NEVER ENOUGH to replace gratitude with words with how far you have come while everybody else quits. Btw..... Did you get the certificate of completion of the journey or just the stamp on your Route 66 passport from Ian??? Post that on your wall back at home!!!!
What a ride Jeff! We've done 66 in our 49 Olds and 62 Caddy years ago and after we watched your run we're thinking of doing it again in our 57 Chevy or my wife's 61 Plymouth wagon! Thanks for the vids buddy, Wendell
A great drive from Chicago to Santa Monica Blvd, Calif, liked Cafe 50's breakfasts every year I visited, and ending at the Santa Monica pier! The '55 visited the last Madonna of the Trails, toured the National Old Trails Road across the USA, and drove "the Main Street of America,: Route 66!" A great series of videos Jeff, well narrated, and totally, well done!!!
Thoroughly enjoyed the videos Jeff! Of course I still want to drive it myself someday, but your journey has given me a glimpse of historic Route 66 until that day comes!
Thanks for the videos, my wife and I just drove 66 from Saligman to Clinton OK and back the first 2 weeks of April 24. It was cool seeing everything again on your videos.
Gotcha - thanks for watching@@yntenseinfo!! If you like what you saw would you do me a favor? Gimme a like & subscribe to my UA-cam channel if you haven't already. I'd appreciate it.
Thanks so much @johannesmikkelsen0910 !! I really appreciate it. It was an awesome road-trip!! Thank you for coming along for the ride with me. Did you watch from the beginning in Chicago??
Excellent Job! My wife and I love watching your adventures. Keep up the good work. Thank you. I do have a question however. How do you like the gear vendors? Does it work well and is there a downside to using it? Thanks again.
Thanks so much @jamesmccormick2171 !! I really appreciate it!! I LOVE my gearvendors - the only downsides are: 1 - there's a clunk when it comes out of gear at about 21mph 2 - I can't use the same expensive synthetic ATF in it. I need to use conventional ATF in order change out the ATF. It really is awesome.
Thanks for the reply@@jeffthisted. I have been thinking about adding one to my 55 that has a built 4L60E in it now. Wanted to get a little better gas mileage and close the spacing between shifts. I get from 12 to 14.7mpg depending on how and where I drive right now with my LS 5.3 (cammed LM7). I noticed you were running around 2170'ish RPM at 80 mph and I am 200RPM higher, and was wondering about your MPG's. I know your engine is larger (408?) so I was curious what you have been getting in your travels... that is if you don't mind me asking? Thanks again... Jim
You're welcome@@jamesmccormick2171!! I've gotta 3.70 rear gear and I get between 18-21mpg depending on how far I'm into it. Be careful of that 4L60e...
@@jeffthisted 10-4 on the 4L60e... I wish I would have went with the 4L80e after the fact, but probably stuck with the 4L60 for a while. Regardless we will keep watching your adventures!!!! Keep up the good work and Thanks again!
I have better pictures of the Cucamonga Service Station on my phone that you probably already seen when I send it to you on your FB chat box without the hideous gate when it was closed on weekdays. You could have come on weekends and it would be wide open for you and your 55.
Loved watching this whole 66 trip... thanks for all the great information... end of April hopefully ill be driving the mother road... watching these has got me seriously in the mood ... cheers 🇬🇧😊👍
Thanks so much @simonsouth6184 !!
I'm looking forward to seeing you out on the open road!!
Ladies and Gentleman, Let's give Jeffman Thisted a round of applause!!!!!! ENCORE!!!!! ENCORE!!!!! ENCORE!!!!! AND ONWARD!!!!!
Thanks so much @LINJ638
I really appreciate it!!
@@jeffthisted No problem!!!!
IMO...... Your 55 wagon is a national treasure of the Route 66 and should be preserved in a car museum for generations of enthusiasts to enjoy because I am sure they got a lot of stories to tell if the car could talk while on the road. Thank you SO MUCH for everything YOU HAVE DONE in preserving American history and it is always NEVER ENOUGH to replace gratitude with words with how far you have come while everybody else quits. Btw..... Did you get the certificate of completion of the journey or just the stamp on your Route 66 passport from Ian??? Post that on your wall back at home!!!!
Thanks @linj638 !!
What a ride Jeff! We've done 66 in our 49 Olds and 62 Caddy years ago and after we watched your run we're thinking of doing it again in our 57 Chevy or my wife's 61 Plymouth wagon! Thanks for the vids buddy, Wendell
You're welcome Wendell @ceedell !!
Thank you for coming along for the ride with me!!
Thanks for sharing your videos! I have enjoyed living the drive down Route 66 vicariously through them.
You're welcome @suewieczorek7413 !!
Thank you for coming along for the ride with me.
A great drive from Chicago to Santa Monica Blvd, Calif, liked Cafe 50's breakfasts every year I visited, and ending at the Santa Monica pier! The '55 visited the last Madonna of the Trails, toured the National Old Trails Road across the USA, and drove "the Main Street of America,: Route 66!" A great series of videos Jeff, well narrated, and totally, well done!!!
Thanks so much for coming along for the ride with me @papatangoable !!
Thoroughly enjoyed the videos Jeff! Of course I still want to drive it myself someday, but your journey has given me a glimpse of historic Route 66 until that day comes!
Thank you so much @gregwarger3125 you just made my day.
Thanks for the videos, my wife and I just drove 66 from Saligman to Clinton OK and back the first 2 weeks of April 24. It was cool seeing everything again on your videos.
You're welcome @gregrasmussen9915 !!
Thank YOU for watching & subscribing.
What was your favorite part of old Route 66?
@@jeffthisted staying at the Blue Swallow Motel and the El Rancho were probably the best parts for us.
By the way, Your 55 is definitely a sweet ride.
Thank you so much@@gregrasmussen9915 you just made my day!! I'm looking forward to seeing you out on the open road.
A wonderful video! I am a little sad to see the series end but I am looking forward to a new adventure. Thanks Jeff
Thanks @johnserou6466 me too!!
Great Video..awesome places and gas stations..love the Madonnas..🤠👍
Thanks so much Ingo buddy!! @mrsillymouth
Thanks for the journey Jeff, enjoyed it!!
You’re welcome @keeb381 !! Thank YOU for coming along for the ride with me!!
Hi jeff thanks for the tour the richfield station is great . Cheers mate🇦🇺
Thank YOU for coming along for the ride with me @peterselton500 !!
I am in Yuma so I would have to go north but the Only time I suffered Los Angeles I walked to the very end of the Pier.
My '76 MGB would Love Oatman.
Gotta love Route 66 & SoCal right @greychampioneast ?!?
What'd you think of the video?
I enjoyed a lot, since the first one, what an adventure
Thank you for coming along for the rode with me on old Route 66 @yntenseinfo !! What was your favorite part of the trip?
@@jeffthisted all the parts! Haha! Route 66 is a dream for now, quite far, but I try to do trips where I live, also have amazing places to visit
Gotcha - thanks for watching@@yntenseinfo!! If you like what you saw would you do me a favor? Gimme a like & subscribe to my UA-cam channel if you haven't already. I'd appreciate it.
@@jeffthisted already done!
Thank you@@yntenseinfo !!
This is one of the film 🎥 locations of Cannonball Run (1976)
No @michaelgorman4229 that the Portifino Inn in Redondo Beach.
Great video Jeff. Hope you had a nice trip. Thanks for sharing👏👏👏
Thanks so much @johannesmikkelsen0910 !! I really appreciate it. It was an awesome road-trip!! Thank you for coming along for the ride with me. Did you watch from the beginning in Chicago??
@@jeffthisted I watched every video you did. Really nicely done. And that 55 of yours is really neat
Thank you so much@@johannesmikkelsen0910 !!
You seriously just made my day!!
@@jeffthisted 😊😊
On Friday late afternoon at Big Bob restaurant in Burbank
Gotta love Bobs Big Boy right @michaelgorman4229 ?!?
Great video series, Jeff! Congrats!
Thank you so much @the_mace !!
It sucks that all things have to come to an end Jeff. :(
It sure does right @LINJ638
But now more adventures await!!
You missed the Aztec hotel in Monrovia CA
I missed a lot of things @derbydriver7431. Now I’ve got an excuse to go back. What’d you think of the video?
Hwy#1. Is also the. "TCH" TRANS CANADA HIGHWAY 😊
You must be from Canada
Excellent Job! My wife and I love watching your adventures. Keep up the good work. Thank you. I do have a question however. How do you like the gear vendors? Does it work well and is there a downside to using it? Thanks again.
Thanks so much @jamesmccormick2171 !!
I really appreciate it!!
I LOVE my gearvendors - the only downsides are:
1 - there's a clunk when it comes out of gear at about 21mph
2 - I can't use the same expensive synthetic ATF in it.
I need to use conventional ATF in order change out the ATF.
It really is awesome.
Thanks for the reply@@jeffthisted. I have been thinking about adding one to my 55 that has a built 4L60E in it now. Wanted to get a little better gas mileage and close the spacing between shifts. I get from 12 to 14.7mpg depending on how and where I drive right now with my LS 5.3 (cammed LM7). I noticed you were running around 2170'ish RPM at 80 mph and I am 200RPM higher, and was wondering about your MPG's. I know your engine is larger (408?) so I was curious what you have been getting in your travels... that is if you don't mind me asking? Thanks again... Jim
You're welcome@@jamesmccormick2171!! I've gotta 3.70 rear gear and I get between 18-21mpg depending on how far I'm into it. Be careful of that 4L60e...
@@jeffthisted 10-4 on the 4L60e... I wish I would have went with the 4L80e after the fact, but probably stuck with the 4L60 for a while. Regardless we will keep watching your adventures!!!! Keep up the good work and Thanks again!
Thank you so much @jamesmccormock2171 !! I hope to see you out on the road this season.
I have better pictures of the Cucamonga Service Station on my phone that you probably already seen when I send it to you on your FB chat box without the hideous gate when it was closed on weekdays. You could have come on weekends and it would be wide open for you and your 55.
Thanks @LINJ638