The second annual Route 66 motor tour...

The second annual Route 66 motor tour on Sunday will start between 7 and 9:30 a.m. at a Carl’s Jr. restaurant on Arrow Highway in San Dimas--a location that is neither on the historic highway nor likely to inspire nostalgia for the route’s heyday.

And Route 66 buffs may be puzzled when they leave their fast-food breakfast and find their second stop is a reception in Pomona at Hemstreet’s Bar and Grill--along the 57 Freeway, several miles off the path being celebrated.

“Purists are going to be filled with dismay,” said Bob Lundy, executive director of the Route 66 Territory Visitors Bureau.

But one of the delights of traveling old Route 66 was to turn off the highway now and then to discover out-of-the-way places, he said.

OK, so Carl’s Jr. isn’t a tucked-away surprise. But the tour begins there, Lundy said, because the fast-food company is a corporate sponsor of the Route 66 organization.

The second stop is Hemstreet’s, he said, because “they know how to throw a party.”

The motor tour will, eventually, find its way to Foothill Boulevard (historic Route 66) for a drive from San Dimas to Fontana before it winds up about 12:30 p.m. at the

Ontario Center along the San Bernardino Freeway.

Participants will be encouraged to stop along the way at such Route 66 landmarks as the Sycamore Inn, established in 1848, and Bono’s Deli & Restaurant, which began as a juice stand catering to travelers in 1936.

The motor tour is an effort to raise money for the California Route 66 Museum in the historic Thomas Winery Center on Foothill Boulevard in Rancho Cucamonga.

The museum, which will be open to the public for the first time during the tour, contains books, photos and other items celebrating the years before interstate highways when Route 66 was the main road from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Participants are encouraged to travel and explore at their own pace, with optional excursions to such places as Mt. Baldy, where lodging and food discounts are available, or to the Pomona antique district or Inland Empire wineries.

For $26.66 per car, participants will receive breakfast at Carl’s Jr., muffins and coffee at Reuben’s in Pomona, a tour map and guidebook. Tickets may be obtained by calling the Route 66 Territory Visitors Bureau at (714) 948-9166.