On Top Of The Black Mountains

The Original Mother-road Route 66 !!
When you go to Oatman you can go two ways, this section comes out near Kingman, at this point you are on top, the road is twisty, narrow and curvy.
When Route 66 came into existence on November 11, 1926, not all cars could speed up the mountain through the pass. The most widely sold vehicle of the time was Ford's Model T which was produced from 1909 to 1927. The Model T, like other vehicles of the era, lacked a pump to bring the gasoline from the gas tank to the engine. Gravity was quite adequate to bring the fuel to the engine unless the tank was low and the vehicle was traveling up an incline. So the cars would back up the mountain.