Jim Conkle and others have set a tentative schedule for the 2008 Route 66 Caravan.
According to the caravan Web site, the west-to-east trek starts April 22 in Santa Monica, Calif., and ends June 17-23 at the Route 66 Festival in Litchfield, Ill. The caravan also will hit a few spots on the Mother Road on return west.
The caravan is essentially a partnership with Remy Chevalier, who drove down Route 66 to promote the use of electric vehicles. In addition to Route 66ers, the alliance is also enlisting others who are promoting the use of alternative-fuel vehicles.
Conkle says in an e-mail:
This year’s Caravan will of course include the Corvettes, motorcycles, other classic cars as well as many other vehicles. Vehicles of all types. But the main body of the Caravan on the trip east will be those from the Electric Vehicle Industry.
We will be visiting all the sites from our 2003 Caravan, check out www.cart66pf.org/66caravan/index.htm for more information.
If you would like to be a part of this Caravan please contact us. The dates are filling up so now is the time to get your request in.
At each major stop we will be setting up displays, offering test drives, doing seminars and holding media events.
Plan on joining us for the entire Caravan or on the days we are in your area.
I know Jim Conkle, and was at several stops during the 2003 caravan. It’s a “come one, come all” atmosphere to maximize the fun.
Remy posted a 1-hour, 40-minute film of his Route 66 tour last year:
Nice to know you folks are carring on the highway 66 tradition I used to make the trip from santa monica california to norman oklahoma once to twice a year.Those were the good old days Maybe i will get to join you one day out there on old hihgway 66.