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PRESENTED
By
HERTZA CENTURY OF GETTING PEOPLE ON THE ROUTE
About
A company older than the road
Route 66 begins in downtown Chicago, and so did Hertz. The company started renting cars there in 1918, eight years before the road was designated, back when driving across the country was still an unusual thing to try. The century that followed belonged to both of them, as the road got paved end to end and the motels, diners and filling stations went up along it. You don't have to drive all 2,448 miles to get the point of it. Pick a car up in Chicago and drop it on the coast, or take one state at a time and fly home from there. Hertz has counters in every state the route crosses, and the fleet runs from something small and economical to a convertible for the stretch where you want the roof down.
From the driver's seat
Whether they rented a car or drove their own, nobody knows this road like the people who have done it. Some went for family, some for the culture, one to get married at the end of it, and one just wanted to take the long way home. These are the stories Route 66 travelers are still telling today.
Story number 91
Inclusion on
the route
Nothing blocking
the horizon
History a
textbook can't
give you
Taking the
long way home
Two very different road trips
Vows at the
end of 66
Where the
plumber is
the mayor
A bold claim
in Gallup
Route 66
in one image
Spray paint and biker leathers
The Land of Lincoln
Illinois
