AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 The activities and events are continuing to honor the Mother Road, Route 66.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe actual 100th anniversary isn\u2019t until November 11th, so in reality we’re going to keep on partying till November of next year because you turn 100, you stay a hundred for a whole year, right,\u201d said Gary Daggett, president of Old Route 66 Association of Texas.<\/p>\n
The fifth annual Texas Route 66 Motor Tour is taking place Oct. 1 \u2013 Oct. 3 from Texola to Glenrio to honor the Mother Road.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a caravan of cars; our first preparty night is Oct. 1 in Shamrock, Texas,\u201d said Daggett. \u201cWe have the Road Crew Band from Nashville, the official band that\u2019s been the official band of Route 66 for a couple of decades now. It\u2019s just going to be a fun three-day event across all of Route 66 in Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s from the Texas line to the New Mexico line, and they go all out with the big parties so there\u2019s a lot of things still going on throughout the rest of the year,\u201d said Brittney Janssen, chamber of commerce director for Oldham County.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe motor tour coming through it just goes to show that Route 66 not just happened last May or June, it happens all year long; in fact, in the Texas Panhandle we get it for every year that goes through,\u201d said Bobby Lee, co-owner of the Big Texan Steak Ranch.<\/p>\n
What makes so many of these motor caravan tours so unique is the international appeal.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t even have to have an old car; that\u2019s something that people make a mistake about- that you have to have a classic car,\u201d said Daggett. \u201cWe do have a lot of classic cars, but we’ve got a group of 35 motorcyclists from Australia joining us. We\u2019ve got people in minivans, campers, RVs; you don\u2019t have to have a classic car to be a part of the motor tour.\u201d<\/p>\n
More activities and events are planned to honor the mother road for the Route 66 Centennial, which means cities like Amarillo and rural communities along the highway will hopefully continue to benefit financially.<\/p>\n
Texas Route 66 Motor Tour brings caravan, band and international riders to Panhandle towns (KVII)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 The activities and events are continuing to honor the Mother Road, Route 66. \u201cThe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-402994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}