Barrett Jacksons June 25th and 26th

To all of our friends and followers living in California, the GTO will be at the Barrett Jackson Car Auction on Thursday Friday and Saturday June 24th thru 26th. Please come by during the auction and talk to us about the trip cross country on Route 66. We will have the CNG GTO on display. We have already met tons of new friends in our efforts to make this trip and look forward to meeting you too. If you cant make the show in Orange County, then you can see our Sunday departure from the Santa Monica Pier. More details on that to follow.

Countdown to the Trip begins

It time to start the countdown to the Route 66 trip. Lots of the details are finally beginning to be finalized. Today was a milestone because the official departure from Birmingham was decided. Mark your calendar for Monday June 21st at 9 am for the official send off. I know most of you may follow our send off from our web site and facebook/twitter postings. But for the lucky few of you that are close enough to Birmingham to see us off, you are all invited. We will hold our send off party, hosted by Alabama Clean Fuels Coalition www.alabamacleanfuels.org , at the Birmingham Jefferson County Transit Authority CNG filling station located at 3105 8th Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35202. The rig including Mark McConville, the CNG GTO, the CNG refueling truck and car trailer will all be there for photos and press coverage. The GTO will be hauled across country to make its first appearance at the Barrett Jackson Auction in Orange County California on Wednesday June 23, 2010. More to come on the events planned for the cross country record breaking trip soon.

City of Trussville

Wednesday I had lunch with Courtney Dollar the Marketing Director with the City of Trussville. Saturday, April 17th the CNG GTO will appear at Earth Day in Trussville Alabama. Currently the City of Trussville has two CNG Honda Civics with the Green Energy style wraps as well as a couple of CNG powered Crown Victorias used by the police department. I really think Courtney sees a huge future for Trussville in the CNG field. Trussville is alreay a wonderful place to live with that safe small town feeling, and with their efforts to embrace CNG they could easily take a leading position in the emerging race for Green Cities.

Thanks to Courtney for the tour of her CNG filling station that is dedicated to the city vehicles, and supported by Phoenix Energy. I am sure I will need to update everyone about Trussville's plans for CNG as they emerge.

Barbers Motorsports Indy Race

Last weekend the CNG GTO was guest of Alagasco at the Barbers Indy Race. Also making appearances with the GTO was the Chesapeake CNG Chopper and two CNG powered Honda cars from the City of Birmingham. We appreciate all of the wonderful people that stopped by to hear about our Route 66 Trip. Thanks to Bob Strickland with Alagasco for inviting us and we greatly appreciate his support as we reach out to grass roots race fans to spread the message about our path to freedom from foreign oil. We met a new representative of Parker Hannifin, a high pressure hose and fittings company from Huntsville AL that wants to support our ongoing needs for fittings. He is fabricating our filler hose that we will use to connect between the refueling pickup truck and the GTO. It will be a six foot hose with a three way valve for venting. Its a key part of the puzzle missing now. The whole weekend was worth it just to establish this one relationship.

Chip Bridges CNG GTO #2 Story

Keith,

Thanks for the kind words. Just remember you guys had the guts to pull it off first, and were cool enough to document it and share it.

I remember the day I saw the first video. I was adding up the list of parts for the 455 I wanted to build, (doing the engineer thing, putting all the parts into excel and making a spreadsheet out of it). I was a little bummed about having to spend an extra $800 for custom dished pistons to lower the compression ratio for 87 octane gas to run the 670 heads I had done the year before. It was still lunch so I thought, hey lets goof off on face book. Then I saw the video of your 66 via a Pickens plan post, talk about a perfect storm. Multiple carburetion with a 66 tri-power manifold and CNG how cool is that???....click......search...click.... search. I found the YouTube videos that explained all the technology, awesome! Another search yielded two public CNG stations at sky harbor airport. I drove out to the airport the next day; its only 12 miles from the house, I usually just take the GTO out for joy rides anyway, so the plan was formed.

Chip Bridges

CHIP BRIDGES CONVERTS CNG GTO #2

Chip Bridges is converting his GTO to run on CNG!! He has completed the installation of the tank into the trunk and I hope to post the pictures soon. Next is to complete the underhood portion of the conversion. He is also using Dave from Carb and Turbo to put together the famous CNG TriCarb Kit. Its very rewarding for Mark and I both to see one more person join a grassroots effort to win back our freedom from foreign oil.

I told Chip just how much I appreciated what he was doing in an email and his reply was so inspiring that I wanted to post it here for everyone to read. He gave me permission.

See the next Post!!

FOX 6 NEWS BIRMINGHAM

Due to a nicely done press release the Fox 6 news affiliate in Birmingham sent Jonathan Hardison to do a story on the Route66GoatGas Project. Jon did a great job and produced a two minute segment that really nails our mission and puts top quality video out there on us. Thanks to Fox 6 for the wonderful coverage. The show aired on Sunday night and our Web site spiked Monday and gently returned to normal hits by the end of the week.

I had plenty of coworkers, clients and friends call me to ask about the project and it was the first time many became aware. Another friend that caught the segment was Carl Cannova of Carls Car Clinic He called and invited us to do Carl Cannova's CAR DOCTOR SHOW on WAPI Radio on Saturday.

Here is the link to the Fox 6 story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFukrnn1xrM