Hot Rod Power Tour

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General Announcement!:
Hot Rod Power Tour is an open challenge to car nuts to come out and show off your car project, especially if it runs!
In the early 90's the staff at Hot Rod magazine drove a bunch of their projects to races like the US drag race Nationals in Indy. The idea was to show their car projects ran well enough to make the trip! Many interested people mapped the staff's daily progress and met them along the way spawning HRPT. Thousands of cars of every type and condition. Go to an official stop, public parking is free and there is no entry fee to walk in.(but it is usually a long hot walk, so bring water! Some places/tracks run shuttles, but I would not depend on that.)
If you want to join the Tour and be in "Tour Parking" you must purchase a Participant pass.
OR, just find a seat along the Tour Route(hopefully near an intersection!, they post the route online.) and watch as the tour rolls by! Participants are not required to use the route but it seems most do, especially close to the day's venue! Most venues open at noon and most of us participants are fully baked and sunburned by 5PM.

• KICKOFF / Day 1: Monday, June 10—Beech Bend Raceway Park, Bowling Green, Kentucky
• Day 2: Tuesday, June 11—Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tennessee
• Day 3: Wednesday, June 12—L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium, Louisville, Kentucky
• Day 4: Thursday, June 13—National Trail Raceway, Hebron, Ohio
• Day 5: Friday, June 14—Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, Indianapolis, Indiana

 

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Well reality bites and she can be vicious! My 2 months in the garage this spring got shortened by My BIL's passing and helping my sister find her balance again.
Conspiring with that time deficit, it seems like every part I needed had to be sent from Timbuktu! Plus the new Definition of the phrase next day air is 4 days! Seems like everything I needed/wanted they said, "I can have it here in 2 weeks." I am living in the "O' Brother Where Art Thou/Twilight Zone". "What a Geographical oddity this place is turning out to be?, 2 weeks from everywhere?"
So no GOB-BALT to take on the tour. I'll drive to Indy on Thursday and see some friends on them last stop of the tour, but now back to work.

 

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Power Tour was great fun! I ended up doing three of the five days in "Plan B" 2001 Chevy single cab short bed. I dropped in on a goblin builder in southern Ohio. Had a nice ride around his neighborhood and swapped stories. (He hasn't shown his to the DMV yet!)
I found no Goblins among the wide variety of vehicles in attendance. Many restored cars and plenty of home built creations on display; from simple buggys to a road going Firebird built from an older Renard/ CART series spec chassis. But it is hard to wander through and see all of the 6000+ Long Haul cars doing the entire route plus probably a couple of thousand cars doing a day(or four) of the tour! Plus the really nice displays and cars at the manufacturers midway, cars and stuff that probably were shown at the annual SEMA show.

 

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Power Tour was great fun! I ended up doing three of the five days in "Plan B" 2001 Chevy single cab short bed. I dropped in on a goblin builder in southern Ohio. Had a nice ride around his neighborhood and swapped stories. (He hasn't shown his to the DMV yet!)
I found no Goblins among the wide variety of vehicles in attendance. Many restored cars and plenty of home built creations on display; from simple buggys to a road going Firebird built from an older Renard/ CART series spec chassis. But it is hard to wander through and see all of the 6000+ Long Haul cars doing the entire route plus probably a couple of thousand cars doing a day(or four) of the tour! Plus the really nice displays and cars at the manufacturers midway, cars and stuff that probably were shown at the annual SEMA show.

Should have paid more attention to this. I'm in Cincinnati and saw all kinds of posts in the local car groups about it going through.

 

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Should have paid more attention to this. I'm in Cincinnati and saw all kinds of posts in the local car groups about it going through.

It does NOT follow the same route every year! It usually starts where it ended but not always; as spots like Lucas Raceway/Indy may have something scheduled that interferes with Power Tour. Watch close, they usually announce the route in January/Feb. Gives you some time to get your ride in shape. It was fun in spite of "My Creature" not being completed in time; but more Goblins thrown in would have made the tour just that much cooler!
A BMW powered Vette and a Chevy powered BMW. Several Chevy powered (70's/80's)Jag Sedans/convs. A Turbo/LS Jag E Type and a BMW V12 powered mid 70's Jag 2 door Saloon(sedan)! I met a guy building a Mid Engine 67 Mustang Roadster(no top or door windows) by cutting up a derelict plain coupe and using the 2012? Taurus SHO lump mid mounted/transverse driveline. With a fiberglass tonneau cover over where the back seat was a'la the 62-4 T-Bird convertables. He said he got into the Mustang body and the SHO donor for almost nothing.