Springfield IL Route 66 festival [message #98371] |
Fri, 03 September 2010 15:05 |
pzerkel
Messages: 212 Registered: September 2007 Location: Salisbury, IL
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For those who are not able to get to Duquoin early, but are still willing to drive through the rest of Illinois enroute (which I realize is likely a very small subset of this group)... The annual Route 66 Mother Road Festival is occurring in Springfield IL September 24-26. That is the Fri-Sat-Sun preceding the GMCMI convention, but unfortunately does conflict with the GMCES event.
Saturday night there is a "burnout" contest. It might be kind of fun to watch some brave soul (who doesn't mind ruining a pair of tires) take a GMC into that.
At this time I plan on arriving in Duquoin early and will likely miss the Route 66 festival. But for those interested, it usually is a pretty interesting display of classic vehicles.
Springfield is about 156 miles north of Duquoin.
Info here...
http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x861575524/Bob-Waldmire-to-be-honored-at-this-years-Mother-Road-Festival
Paul Zerkel
'78 Eleganza II
Salisbury IL (near Springfield)
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