Quixote Corporation To Webcast Fiscal First Quarter 2007 Results

CHICAGO, Oct. 20, 2006 -- Quixote Corporation , a world leader in transportation safety products and services, intends to release its fiscal 2007 first quarter results on the morning of Tuesday, October 31, 2006. In conjunction with this release, management of Quixote Corp. will host a conference call, which will be simultaneously broadcast over the Internet. Les Jezuit, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Daniel Gorey, Chief Financial Officer, will host the call.

                        10:00 A.M. (EASTERN TIME)
                        Tuesday, October 31, 2006

                        http://www.quixotecorp.com/

Please allow extra time prior to the call to visit the site and download the streaming media software required to listen to the Internet broadcast. The online archive of the broadcast will be available on the http://www.quixotecorp.com/ website.

Quixote Corporation, (www.quixotecorp.com), through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Quixote Transportation Safety, Inc., Quixote Traffic Corporation and Quixote Transportation Technologies, Inc., is the world's leading manufacturer of energy-absorbing highway crash cushions, electronic wireless measuring and sensing devices, weather forecasting stations, computerized highway advisory radio transmitting systems, intelligent intersection control systems, flexible post delineators and other transportation safety products.

      FOR:  QUIXOTE CORPORATION

  CONTACT:  Daniel P. Gorey
            Chief Financial Officer
            Joan R. Riley
            Director of Investor Relations
            (312) 467-6755

  CONTACT:  Investor Relations:
            Christine Mohrmann/Jim Olecki
            Financial Dynamics
            (212) 850-5600