Actor and star of “Route 66” Martin Milner accepted the award.
Dateline 9.13.15 (videos at the end of this post) – What a cool concept for a weekly TV drama. Two dudes, tooling around America, working odd jobs, looking for adventure, flirting with pretty girls, and generally being good-guys on white horses. Only instead of horses, the dudes, “Todd Stiles” (played by Martin Milner) and “Buz Murdock” (played by George Maharis) got around in a brand new Corvette. The Corvette wasn’t a “star car” like “The General Lee” from The “Dukes of Hazard,” but it was always “there” and confidently got the boys from adventure to adventure.
It was great PR for Chevrolet and lasted four seasons. ”Route 66” was a concept that became a cult classic and would be forever linked to Corvette history, such that the TV series was officially inducted into the “Cruisin’ Hall of Fame” in 2001, 37 years after the show was canceled. How’s that for staying power? The car show event was attended by over 535,000 people, and attracted 2108 cars. – Scott
Here’s a sample episode. There are LOTS more on YouTube and Hulu.
And here’s the theme song and a restoration of a 1964 Corvette!
