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 The 69 Javelin SST   which serves as the foundation specimen for my collection is known as the Alamosa Project.

 

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I had decided to call my museum effort and research project “Route 66 Rambler” nearly six months before, when I began my search for this 69 Javelin SST. This was natural to me, as I spent a lot of time in the 1960’s sitting in the back seat of a Rambler Cross-Country station wagon,   riding with my 2 brothers and 2 sisters down Route 66 to new adventure.

  I looked in neighboring states, and checked ads nationwide, as well as all over the city, for MONTHS, before finding this rusted piece of crap that I love. 

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Along with the incredible fact that this car was right across the street, I found that it had originally been sold at Beutel Rambler in Chicago.  Chicago is where U.S. Route 66 began. Fortunate coincidence, that my first trophy comes from the beginning of the Mother Road.
 

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After a couple of Gremlins to study and use for transportation and sale,

 

my next score of viable specimens was perpetrated in L. A., at the other end of the Ghost Highway.  Two V8 Rambler Americans, a ‘66 and ‘67. Thousand bucks apiece! The house where I picked them up fronts Historic 66, within blocks of its finish.  Hmmm. Something from the start, and something from the end. Interesting…

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 I began to wonder what sort of goodies might be hiding at the halfway point along U.S. Route 66.  That point is in Adrian, Texas.

That’s about 30 miles from Shamrock, Texas.

And THAT’s  the home of— The Rambler Motel.
cool. 
mike

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Tuesday September 12, 2006 - 11:49am (MST)

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