The powerful Ford V8 was favored by gangsters of the '30s. John Dillinger drove them, Bonnie and Clyde were gunned down in one.

By contrast, this pictured Ford V8 is actually owned by the people driving it--a couple from downstate IL.

It's shown on an original brick section of Route 66 that winds through fields of corn ready for harvest. And it's glistening with moisture from fog that lifted minutes before.