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The directions you gave for the BB on google was just a snippet for a transcontinental book. I have been able to find complete Blue Books on ebook that are non transcontinental. 1906, 1915 vol 4, 1917 vol 2, 1919 vol 1, 1920 vol 3.

I enjoyed the Oldsmobile race link and appreciate the offer for Blue Book links. Wednesday I found some though I could not find a Trancontinental Edition on google books. Thank you.

Keep rambling. Enjoyed looking at the Historicalroadmaps.com and learning about the Hobbs Guides. You are causing problems for me because I still do not have a Blue Book, and now I have to get a ALA and a Hobbs Guides. Not to mention replace the 1956 Esso transcontinental US Route map I had back in the 1970's. I can see the interest in the Hobbs Guides back in the day with their having grade information being the early Auto's having 20 to 40 hp and two wheel or four wheel mechanical brakes making going up and down steep grades a real challange. I read that the steep grades going across PA made Horatio Nelson Jackson hug Lake Erie and go through NY close to what is now US 20 and down along the Hudson River to complete his trip.

I thought they were only regional books. Now thanks to you I found out they had transcontinental book's. Did the transcontinental books have a lot more pages or less advertising? My first road trip dream has been to drive east to west on US 20. Now knowing about the Blue Books and AR forum I would have a start to find some of the original alignments when I make that trip. I first heard about the Blue Books here. Though I never thought I would find any. To me the Blue Books are not collectable items as old antiques but a resource of lost knowledge. I do not not see myself road exploring cross country for a few years. I am happy to do one day trips. And, maybe camping one night and driving back the next day is the limit for now. My suburban can go 489 city, 675 hwy on one tank of gas.

Thanks for the response and you can never give me too much info. So if you have more pages I have the time to read. If I remember, it has been a while, a lot of the books were for the south west.

I had found some Blue Books from the teens and twentys in a used book store upstate NY about 1.5 years ago. I think the books were from the teens and twentys. They were is good shape. Covers and bindings were intact and all the pages appeared to be there. I think they were asking about $20 a book, I don't remember for sure. The books did not look new but had the normal petina of something that is about 100 years old from just sitting. I knew what those books were as soon as I saw the cover from reading on AR forums and wanted to buy one justto have one but my pocket could not afford one that day. Some day I keep saying I am going to go back one day and get one. What are those books worth.

My dad was an auto mechanic from before the big one, WWII. He passed on in 2006. My dad loved to be behind the wheel and drive roads to explore. He never did any cross country trips but did his share of driving. This is where I got my love for using my hands and driving as well. My dad always wanted to do drive and use his own car. Like father like son. Back in grade school an HS boy down my street had gotten himself an old model T truck in rough shape. I tought having an old car was great. By the time I hit HS I had saved up my money to buy an old car myself. The summer of 1970 I turned 16, my dad and I drove upstate on US 11. We were just south of Fort Drum where we found a junk yard that had a 1935 Buick 3 window coupe. That Buick was my first car. We towed it home on a tow bar with a 1962 Chevy II. Forerunner of the Chevy Nova. 196 straight 6 with a 2 speed power glide. The Buick weighed 1,000 lbs more then the Chevy as well. We found out fast that towing the Buick would not work well on the Interstates to get back to Long Island so it fell onto me to find secondary roads to get back to LI. Whenever we would go on road trips my dad would let me study his pile of gas station maps and navigate the trip. So we took US 11 to US 20 to NY 22. Pulling that Buick up on some hills on US 20 the Chevy just pulled the Buick over the top with the gas pedal floored, trans in low, at 5 MPH. Going down some hills still in low we got to smell the fragrance of brakes burning to keep the speed in check. However while I was finding the most direct secondary roads to take back home I noticed that some numbered routes went coast to coast. This is when in my dads pile of maps their was a 1956 US route map. I think it was an ESSO map. There I saw the many major US routes that went coast to coast with some major state routes such as NY 22. Wish I still had that map. This was the start of me wanting to drive coast to coast on US 20. I have yet to do so but hope to some day. Thing is once you do US 20 then I am afraid I wil have to do US 2, 6, 50, Pacific Coast Hwy. Will this addiction ever end? I hope not. So for now I just have to settle for reading "Road Trip USA" by Jamie Jensen and all your posts on the forum.