are classic cars from the 70's or 80's strong enough from a road trip through route 66?

Answer 1

Considering that Route 66 was built between 1924 and 1926 and was designed for cars of that vintage there is no reason that a later model car wouldn't be able to make this trip. Since many of the roadside attractions that are such a tourist draw today were buit in the 1950's, you will see a significant number of 50's cars on the road. Often these old roadside attactions of yesteryear are now on the older highways and frontage roads that parallel the "mother road", but the road still goes through many smaller cities - enough that it still feels like your traveling down the main street of the U.S.A.

My favorite spots on the road to visit are Amboy, out in the high dessert outside Los Angeles before you get to the Arizona border, and just to the east of Tulsa Oklahoma, where you can still find sections of the old original one lane concrete road. It was expanded to two lanes not many years after it was built. In talking with my grandmother who traveled the road from Kansas to California in 1924 (before it was officially Route 66) I loved hearing about having to shovel the sand from the tires and how they had to pull the old wooden plank road onto firm ground in places. Parts of a similar old plank road where it crossed from Yuma to El Centro in California are still visible - when the sand doesn't cover it! Here's a link to a picture of the old plank road http://www.bygonebyways.com/80-CA-Grays_Well_Road-Plank_Road.jpg

Answer 2

What? If you are asking if a car from the 70's or 80's is strong enough for a road trip through route 66, then it depends on the car. My car is a 1970 Plymouth Duster. It has a Magnum 360 engine Torque Flight Trans with highway gears. You can see it at http://davesjetengines.com

The answer to your question is YES, my car will

If you are asking what kind of car to get, then what do you want? Mopar or Chevy?

Answer 3

YES.
Placing strength or ability (or lack there-of) on a vehicle simply because of the decade that they were made in is simply WRONG.
Any vehicle is capable of a coast-to-coast road trip, including a YUGO...It all depends on the level of care that is given to the vehicle.
I think that some vehicles would be more fun to drive over another (such as a 1969 Corvette over a 1989 Yugo) but make and model are simply subjective.
The only thing my 1986 F350 needs is a cruise control servo and a full tank of diesel before I would head out!
(I would not enjoy it if I did not have my cruise fixed) BUT it could handle anything I toss at it or in it!

Answer 4

the road is very bumpy and in disrepair so any vehicle traveling it will have one heck of a ride.........and i see no reason why a car from the 70's or 80's...classics as you so called them will have no problem.....they were probably better built than some of the cars nowadays

Answer 5

Absolutely!