After nearly two years in the same place, the Report has moved off of the BraveNet Free Blog service.  The same reason as the original move from Yahoo! 360.   There is far too much advertising, and the huge thing takes forever to load.  Now it has also become unstable, and before losing everything like what happened at Yahoo!(twice), I have archived, copied, and moved, here into my own space.  This blog is currently the only thing on Route66Rambler.NET.   Since I pay for the space and own the domain name, there is no point anymore in putting up with that free piece of crap.  It was a beautiful looking blog, but it runs so slow, so much advertising, and takes so long to do anything at all with.  So I figured with my monthly traffic starting to reach above 1300 on this journal, that I should just install my own blog software, and use the space that I am paying for.

Everything that was at the old Report 66 is now here as well.  Everything will run WAY faster, and now it can be integrated into the Route 66 Rambler main page, The AMC Heritage Forum, and the RustBucket Image Host, with database tracking of everything I put here, that can be searched and related to the other sites.

Everything Will Be Better Now.  Goodbye to the Bravenet Free Blog.  That blog will be left up with a statement about the move,  until the first of the year,  then the account will be deleted.  Thank you for your patience in the move.

-mike

This blog is where the new home will be for the Route 66 Rambler Report, as soon as I figure out how to make it look a little prettier. Right now you can see the old blog, that will be brought over to this site, at:

Route 66 Rambler Report - Bravenet Blog

This is a free blog service by bravenet.com, and it’s a great blog, but all the advertising banners to keep it free are just too much for me. Since I already have two domains paid for, I should just use my own space for this blog. Just wanna make it look better…

mike

check out these other places, and you’ll understand why changes don’t happen faster on the blog:

Route 66 Rambler AMC

The AMC Heritage Forum - Index

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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)