A group of 1950s Greyhound Scenicruiser buses will meet later this week at the “Hounds of the Mother Road Reunion” in Adrian, Texas.
A small convoy of these buses met at a motel on 11th Street (aka Route 66) in Tulsa on Tuesday night. The event in the Texas Panhandle is set for Thursday and Friday — first in Adrian at the famed midpoint of Route 66 for photographs (and presumably pie at the Midpoint Cafe), then at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in nearby Amarillo, where the buses will be on display.
An interesting tidbit about those Greyhounds:
Of the 1,001 General Motors model PD-4501 Scenicruiser buses made, only 200 are accounted for today. Of those 200, about 20 are still in their original seated configuration. […]
The Scenicruiser is an American icon of transportation. When it was introduced by Greyhound it was only expected to be in service for ten years. But Greyhound retired the buses in mid-70’s, after they’d been in service for twice that long.
More about the reunion can be found here.
UPDATE: Here’s an updated story on the caravan’s Tulsa stop.
UPDATE2: Here’s a story about the caravan from its Cuba, Mo., stop.
UPDATE3: Here’s a video from the caravan’s stop on Route 66 in Adrian, Texas: