Affable television host and race-car driver Grant Denyer has been traveling Route 66 in an old Cadillac in the past few days and doing live feeds back home to Australia for the “Sunrise Channel 7” show.
Today, the show start putting his Route 66 segments on YouTube. The channel is here, but here are the segments most relevant to the Mother Road:
I’m certain more videos will be posted in the coming days. He intends to go all the way to the Santa Monica Pier, and he’s barely in Oklahoma.
Denyer’s Route 66 Roadtrip for Sunrise Facebook page is here, and he’s also been posting on his Twitter account.
UPDATE: KTUL-TV posted a story about Denyer and his camera crew’s stop at Ollie’s Station in Tulsa.
“We all sound the same we all look the same we all are the same, America we go to all these little micro-nations everywhere and we just love arriving in different places, you get warm hospitality everywhere you go,” says Grant Denyer. […]
Inside of Ollie’s the bloaks [sic] were all business.
“They ordered chicken fried steak which was funny because when they ordered it they thought they were getting chicken well it’s beef,” says Forester.
“We are weighing ourselves everyday to see how much weight we put on and the person that puts on the most weight gets free beer all night at the end of the trip,” says Denyer.
UPDATE2: The Daily Miner in Kingman, Ariz., reports that Denyer and his crew will be in Kingman this weekend. Here’s a little tidbit I didn’t know:
“The crew is basically doing a two-fold project,” Durkin said. “They’re taking about eight days to do the whole route, and their goal is to film segments to air every morning on this morning show, but they’re also gathering video footage to put together a one-hour special.”