Talk about luck in spades. First, this Motor Trend writer decides to take up marathon running and ends up getting to meet Jeff Galloway — which, in distance-running circles, is the rough equivalent of having an audience with the pope — and then, in the course of conversation, Galloway mentions he just happens to have a ’57 Chevy Bel Air that his wife wants out of the garage.
The Motor Trend writer buys the car, and he and his boss decide it would make a cool story if they restored it and took it out for a spin on Route 66.
The trip journal starts here.
Incidentally, I used Galloway’s method to survive my own little 26.2-mile Route 66 fundraiser last fall, and I highly recommend it for those of you planning to participate in the inaugural Route 66 Marathon this fall in Tulsa.
Emily (filling in for Ron in his absence)