⛽Awesome Video Rob, they did a great job restoring that Bel Air!!! I don't get to see a lot of different old gas stations very often. thank you for taking the time to sharing this history with us and creating this awesome content. Every piece of gas station Memorabilia and car has a story to tell, and it's up to us to preserve their stories and share the history. 🚂

I was born and raised in Southern California, Riverside. Every summer when my Dad had vacation time, we would drive back to Kansas to visit family. We took 66 into Oklahoma then turned north. At the time my folks owned a’56 Ford Fairlane two door hardtop and a ‘53 Chevrolet pickup. For vacations we put a camper on the truck, loaded up and off we went. My brother and I rode in the camper, my folks were up front. No air conditioning, no fast food, not too many big cities either (except for Albuquerque and a few others). It wasn’t glamorous, it wasn’t time filled with cell phones, touch screens, laptops or other gadgets - none of those had been invented yet- and I’d do it all over again in a heartbeat. I’m the only one left in my family so these memories are worth it. Thank you for posting this!

I've met the man who owns the 1939 Graham. He is a Route 66 treasure. I wish I had gone down Route 66 years ago when the mother road was full of people like him. These old guys are dying off which is sad to see. People like him make Route 66 an immersive experience. I took my son out to meet him last year and he wants to go again and take his twin brother so he can experience Route 66 and everything it has to offer.

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION. THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

Hi rob i love the old filling stations thanks for the tour . Cheers mate 🇦🇺

Thanks for today look around some of Route 66s treasure. 🇦🇺🇦🇺

I visited the Bent Door station and was able to talk with the current owner about its history a few months ago on my trip. The left side of the station with the bent door was salvaged off of an old military boat and the station was built around that piece back in the day. The pumps that are out front are original to the station but they were gone when the current owner bought the station, he found who had the pumps on the other side of town and was able to buy them back and put them back in place as well as the pole sign. Inside he has old original pictures of the station which used to have 36B pumps in its earlier days. He is an over the road trucker and is trying to restore the station in his spare time. His hope is to make it an ice cream/burger shop and Museum in the future.

Cool places, consider yourself lucky, being able to travel around and see so many neat places from way back when. I'm happy that you are able to do what you do. I think it's cool that people like you, can drive around the country and find these places, to show them to others that are interested in the different eras of America, plus y'all are able to find and buy antiques, to keep old time America alive. It sure is good that people are able to come to you and the others, to buy and preserve the history of this country, either keeping it rusty or doing restoration to the items of the old highways and byways. The multitude of products that were made from when automobiles were first produced, all they way, up to the 1960's and 70's, it's unfathomable to even think of how many. But, from big to tiny, there's always something out there, that will touch someone's heart felt passion for collecting a part of the American automobiles and what lined the American roads, as Americans ventured out, exploring the country, from sea to shining sea. Thank you for what you do. Keeping the young, to the old, the American Automotive Soul Alive!

I feel sorry when I see these magnificent cars in those conditions. 😥 Thanks for sharing.

That semi truck neon sign is so cool! Be great to see it lit up again! Thanks for sharing your finds along the road.

Thank you love to see places from the past

Thanks for sharing 😊

Thank you for sharing all of that beautiful history. 👍👍

The Nash Ambassador Wow....Here in the UK in the past Austin/Morris produced a little Nash Metrpolitan hopefully for the USA market....A sweet little car but a flop...A few survive in The UK ....I love my holidays riding The Dog in America ....All Aboard Amtrak also.....Wonderful.....

You’re doing what’ve always wanted to do, going around to all the places and seeing what is left of a by gone era,I just love getting out and just driving with no Particular place to go and or being in a hurry to get there. I really want to see all these places before their gone

thank you for sharing,

Sacrilege that Standard Oil service station sign was painted over for another use. Great video showing some surviving vintage gas stations and autos along the "Mother Road." Thanks for sharing!

Kansas... the Original 14.2 miles of the iconic wonderful Route 66. Last item on My bucket list. Fly out to Missouri from Ohio, rent an old classic car, drive the 14.2 miles of Route 66 in Kansas to Oklahoma, turn around and drive back, taking all the time necessary for these 67+ year old eyes and soul to soak up all the history of this original bypassed stretch of our great nations “ Mother Road.” Thankx SO Much for the video.

awesome video to watch...... we'll save it for our parents to watch,give them some ideas on what to visit in the states late 2023 rachel and christina m from queensland australia

these days long gone America not the same

I really appreciate and enjoy watching your videos. Thank you. Some true time capsules there...

Great video. A lot of neat history. 👍🏽👍🏽

I'm going to go out in a lark here. As my grandmother used to say. But I guess you don't see that many studebakers in your home state? They seem to be sprinkled around the west and somewhere in the Midwest. But that Graham car how much did he want for it? Now it's been a while I've only seen one or two others in person and that one I sold its twin for a good chunk of money. I never owned it I just got the buyer and sell it together. Not only until it's not busted the color is good on the lens. The 50 give or take a year Chrysler Plymouth black one, it's amazing the paint always holds up well on those cars. I'd still like to get one I'm not going to break my neck to go after it because they're not that valuable actually. Well in any case good to see your video content from your trip. I like the Studebaker pickups just because they're different. There's one in particular that is rare and I know where it's one setting at and if the family ever stops crawling over the man's estate, I'm sure I can buy it for three times what he offered it to me for. In any case go back about 5 or 6 years with Barrett-Jackson on the Studebaker pickup sales. If they're old auctions are still available. They sold it for an insane amount. Get yourself a list together and put this one on it. That list should be if I ever see one of these I need to let somebody know! Or by myself. Anyway I'll leave it all at that point. It's been a long old day and I sold a couple more today.

GREAT BUY

this is awesome. from the Philippines.

Boy the interior of a lot of those old cars out there on the New Mexico desert looks like a haunta viris haven.. It's sad to see them slowly, wasting away under the hot New Mexican sun

If you ever plan to motor west!. Great viewing. ! Rog. Pacific sunset records

You walked right on by without saying anything about the Henry J automobiles that were also marketed under the Allstate brand and sold at Sears.

Grahm Paige….? Never heard of one….Neat !

Muy buen video.esas joyas de autos y esa carretera inolvidable.hablan de muchas historias.y está gran persona mostrando el auto.no cabe duda qué EEUU es un país bendecido lleno de historias.felicidades por su video.Saludos desde México d.f.

Check out that old Pepsi cola machine ,,and gas was only 29.9 ,,ha and look at the price of gas today,,I was a kid in the early 50,s things were so much better and cheaper back then,,,and the antique cars there so cool,, cars were made in the USA in Detroit back then ,,they should of kept it that way ,,,Made in the USA ,,ooh baby baby the beautiful blue Chevy Bel air ,,can I go for a ride Awesome 🥰💙😎

Henry J 2 door! Thats orphan alley right there. Very cool stuff. If that’s I-40, seen it going by. Its amazing. All those Studies broke down in the same place. Go figure.

Nice cars rotting away

Super Video, Dude!

Rob, another beautiful video. The little station in Vega, TX is so unique and very unusual in design I'm sure. I spotted a 1958 Edsel Pacer!

Great lookin brick papers on that street, I want to do my driveway at my house in Indiana.

Very cool video man I lived out there back in the 90s just north of Amarillo I work for Phillips petroleum in the refinery but when I had time off I went straight to Route 66 and traveled both directions on it back then it was really cool you can stop at a roadside burger store and you would think you were right back in the fifties drive a little ways down the road and there were cars and Salvage Yards everywhere I didn't make a lot of money and of course I had a family to feed and take care of so I wasn't able to buy any of those cars but I definitely wanted to they were everywhere and fairly cheap too but it just wasn't to be anyhow I love those days and thinking back on it I wish I could drive that road again just for the fun of it

My dad had a few ambassadors back in the fifties... One time me and my brother filled up the gas tank with gravel thinking we were doing a good thing

I love that sign at the beginning, "Watch Your Curves, Eat More Beef!" In related news... 9 out of ten doctors recommend Winston cigarettes.

Hate to see all those amazing 50s cars which in todays world, are considered works of art, just rotting away. I’d think this would be a car restorers paradise.

It never dawned on me - the close similarity between the Philips 66 and the Route 66 signs.

The 66 station is known for the bent door that I believe was part of an old airport control tower structure repurposed on the side.

There are many towns on south central and southeastern KS that had brick streets. Many have been paved over, some not. Coffeyville, Independence, Parsons, Iola just to name a few. More have brick streets than don't.

Thank you NICE

That stood for standard gas and oil companies too maybe also American amico. And esso

The "NASS" YT channel shows a lot of colour restored film of these era cars from the 30,40s ,50s and 60s. Might be of interest .

The Nash at 6:53 is actually a 1954. The one at 9:14 is the 52.

Lucky the fast buck scavengers didn't take everything

I believe I could be wrong but I believe that blue 55 four-door is a postcard not a Bel-Air it has the post between the back seat and the front seat I believe if it was a too dark two door and had them post it would not be a Bel-Air but not sure the four door correct me if I'm wrong

Anyone remember the whiting bros gas stations along route 66 in the 6os and 70s ?

Yep there's a picture of that very same gas station I was talkin about at about ten seconds in

Sad to see all those Studebakers just rotting away.

2:00... The painted over “ Standard” sign is ROUND, Whereas the later Standard signs were more oval... curious on the round Standard sign(?)

I bet that 66 sign cost you a pretty penny I'm gonna go with 3500 minimum

Any pictures of the hay day for this station

Is. Now called. Exon too kh

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