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I'm here. We're a sponsor and I've been on every Tour, the entire way, every year.

Stop and see me. I'm driving either our '59 Sedan Delivery or a new Shelby Terlingua- it set the fast time on the autocross today.

I'm up on stage every day about 5 pm or so.

Keep in mind we drive hundreds of miles a day, and so far we've been rained on about 12 times in the past 3 days. You can't realistically expect paint to stay perfect in those conditions. It's not a car show - it's a tour.
 
forrest@mothers said:
I'm here. We're a sponsor and I've been on every Tour, the entire way, every year.

Stop and see me. I'm driving either our '59 Sedan Delivery or a new Shelby Terlingua- it set the fast time on the autocross today.

I'm up on stage every day about 5 pm or so.

Keep in mind we drive hundreds of miles a day, and so far we've been rained on about 12 times in the past 3 days. You can't realistically expect paint to stay perfect in those conditions. It's not a car show - it's a tour.
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I bought a Mothers shirt today!

Maybe from you?
 
Very cool. :xyxthumbs:

Ha, I never knew they made an Edsel Wagon, no idea at all. We have a few sedans floating around down here but like I said, a wagon? Who knew.

Ford Capri - some were German, others English, kinda a collaboration of the European Ford Motor Company. Actually one of the cheif designers of the Mustang designed the Capri. The were built in the late sixties through to the eighties & have quite a cult following down here & in the other colonies. The German 2.8 was a very nice car, my pick anyhow.

Nice pictures, thanks for sharing. For those of us who aren't familiar with this "Hotrod Power Tour" whats the go? Where is the start, where is the finish? How does it work? How far is the tour etc etc?

Aaryn NZ. :dblthumb2:
 
Aaryn NZ said:
Very cool. :xyxthumbs:

Ha, I never knew they made an Edsel Wagon, no idea at all. We have a few sedans floating around down here but like I said, a wagon? Who knew.

Ford Capri - some were German, others English, kinda a collaboration of the European Ford Motor Company. Actually one of the cheif designers of the Mustang designed the Capri. The were built in the late sixties through to the eighties & have quite a cult following down here & in the other colonies. The German 2.8 was a very nice car, my pick anyhow.

Nice pictures, thanks for sharing. For those of us who aren't familiar with this "Hotrod Power Tour" whats the go? Where is the start, where is the finish? How does it work? How far is the tour etc etc?

Aaryn NZ. :dblthumb2:
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Don't know all the details. This is my first one.

You can see the route in my second picture. It's over 1000 miles total with 7 stops along the way.

Some take the whole tour. They're called Long Haulers. Others just do a city or two.

Not sure of the official count but there was definitely more than 500 cars there.
 
Hot rod drag week is also pretty sick! Similar to this but people are driving 6 and 7 second 1/4 mile drag cars a thousand miles and racing at drag strips along the way. People rebuilding motors in parking lots before they head to the next track for the following day. Pretty friggin awesome!!!
 
This year:
Baton Rouge/Gonzales, LA to

Baytown, TX to

Austin, TX to

Grand Prairie, TX to

Oklahoma City, OK to

Wichita, KS to

Kansas City, KS

1317 miles. We will be at Circuit of the Americas in Austin tomorrow. You can see route info, our daily coverage and more at http://www.powertour.net

There are about 3,500 long haulers registered, and about 5,000 vehicles at any given time on the Tour. At 13xx miles it's the shortest Tour we've ever had, I believe.
 
forrest@mothers said:
This year:
Baton Rouge/Gonzales, LA to

Baytown, TX to

Austin, TX to

Grand Prairie, TX to

Oklahoma City, OK to

Wichita, KS to

Kansas City, KS

1317 miles. We will be at Circuit of the Americas in Austin tomorrow. You can see route info, our daily coverage and more at http://www.powertour.net

There are about 3,500 long haulers registered, and about 5,000 vehicles at any given time on the Tour. At 13xx miles it's the shortest Tour we've ever had, I believe.
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Thank you Mr Mom. :xyxthumbs:

This sounds like one heck of a tour. Kinda a "must do" type event. Tell me Forest, how long has this been going on? I know I know, I could go & google all the information for myself but hey, this is a forum right? That & I simply haven't the time online. Is this a charity event? If this one is the shortest, what is the average distance traveled for the tour? I take it that it starts in a different place each tour or is the start point the same each time but the route is different year to year?

Very cool, please keep the photos coming guys.

Aaryn NZ. :dblthumb2:
 
The first generation Capri's were made in Germany....and sold over here at Lincoln-Mercury dealerships.....I had a teacher in grade school that had one...cool looking little cars
 
forrest@mothers said:
This year:
Baton Rouge/Gonzales, LA to

Baytown, TX to

Austin, TX to

Grand Prairie, TX to

Oklahoma City, OK to

Wichita, KS to

Kansas City, KS

1317 miles. We will be at Circuit of the Americas in Austin tomorrow. You can see route info, our daily coverage and more at http://www.powertour.net

There are about 3,500 long haulers registered, and about 5,000 vehicles at any given time on the Tour. At 13xx miles it's the shortest Tour we've ever had, I believe.
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Wow! I had no idea there were 3500 long haulers. That's a lot.

Autogeek should have a booth at these. They would make a killing with that many car people there.
 
The first Power Tour was in 1995. We went from LA (Petersen Museum) to Mt Clemens, Michigan. There were 7 of us. 2nd year was 50, third year was about 300. It's gotten bigger each year.

Once the logistics of people/infrastructure became an issue (there aren't too many hotels in Elk City, OK, as an example), and too many cars to safely caravan 5-600 miles a day, it became a Tour of shorter days and back roads. We now do about 250-300 miles a day, and out of necessity stop in areas large enough to support all those cars and people - hotel rooms are always a challenge.

Our website has coverage going back for all the years, except for year 1 I think - I sent faxes to 4 people each night to let them know what we did, and that I was still alive.

We almost always start in the city we ended in the previous year.

We arrived at COTA (Circuit of the Americas) in Austin TX today. I was able to drive around the track, which is kinda cool considering the world's greatest F1 drivers do their work on the same piece o' pavement.

Headed to Grapevine TX tomorrow.

Check www.powertour.net for daily updates and all the old stories of the fun we've had over the years.
 
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