08 Hot Rod Power Tour ROLL CALL!!!!

[INEEDAGN]

Heck, now that I browse around some more, Our very own David Newton (fast86GN) is pictured in the topeka coverage as well. Congrats dave! hope you made it home ok.

[fast86gn]

Hey guys I had a blast. Bob, it was nice to meet you ya'll have a safe trip the rest of the way. I am now back home, rolled into Dallas around 9pm.

Great pics. I have a bunch just no time to download tight now. I did make hotrod.com though check ou the pics here Hrdp 2008 Day3 Topeka 100z Photo

[406CycoBu]

Hey I just got home 9:50pm central time.....drove all day. I had a great time hanging with 2toneWE4 & his Dad & Royal-T and his Wife. You guys have fun & be safe okay.

Yabba Dabba Doo

[INEEDAGN]

Not much to report today except that we have a nasty storm chasing us. Should roll into town any minute now but the worst of it appears to be north of us. Lincoln and omaha got nailed today just a few hours after the tour left. 80% chance of rain for tomorrow's trip. This is the same storm system that got the boy scout camp that's all over cnn right now. Got my blower motor changed at a hospitality stop put on by a local dealer. Easy fix. Met a few TR owners today that just joined the tour here and got some pics of their cars. Rough estimate of a dozen or more turbo regals so far. My fuel economy isn't what i'd hoped for but it's not ideal conditions with all the stop 'n go and not using the cruise very much. getting about 18-20 mpg. "small" oil leak at the turbo feed line has lost an entire quart of oil so far. still having fun so i'm going to the end.

[DavzGN]

So how was the last leg down to Madison. I bet it spoiled the tour for a few people. I couldn't believe they changed the route from Hwy 14 which was open all the way to Madison to I-90 which was close due to flooding and had very few options for detours since everything was under water.
I was hoping to pick up the group near Madison but I had to help my wife go pick up my daughter from camp. We had to go north then south through the same flooded area. I got to drive and she helped navigate. We finally had to ask a local to find a way through after driving a 40 mile loop. We ended up having to take a one way, single lane boat launch road that the cops were directing traffic through. They would let 40 or so cars through one way, then after everyone came though they would send 40 cars through the other way.
I took us 3+ hrs to make the same trip it took my wife 1.5hrs on Tuesday. I did see some of the tour cars including the Purple Pacer shown earlier in this post. It was about an hour or so north of Madison when I saw it about 3:30pm.

I hope you guys made it through okay.

David
87GN

[INEEDAGN]

Yeah.

If we had known what friday had in store for us, we would have skipped madison altogether and just went home. The last 60 miles into madison took us 5.5 hours. I have pics of us jammed up sitting on the interstate with the car shut off and everyone out talking to each other. Thankfully the little one slept through it all. Spent 6 hours in her car seat and didn't fuss until we were getting into the venue. The stop and go with dad's four speed took a toll on the cv joint in his driveshaft, and the parts weren't available friday night, so we sat in the hotel parknig lot friday night and disassembled, cleaned, regreased, and half-@ssed it back together. I was poking broken needle bearings in between whole ones to keep them together enough to limp it home. We got into madison at 6:00, just in time to clock in and leave. MSD had packed up by then so we didn't get our last magnets or the little plaque they were giving away. Overall the trip was a blast, but friday from start to finish was a horrible day that I'd like to forget. Should be able to get pics up tonight.

[Royal-T-Ltd]

hope you like'em

[2toneWE4]

Hey Royal T stop exposing me car all over the internet!

[fast86gn]

Here are a few more

[fast86gn]

A couple more

[CTX-SLPR]

Does anyone have any information on the '58 Buick Caballero wagon that I've seen shots of?

[aminga]

I always thought that the coolest thing about the tour was the kids sitting out on the side of the road with a sign asking for burnouts. And they almost always got them :-)

[INEEDAGN]

Wisconsin's traffic nightmare. Remember that this was an interstate.

[JOHNDEEREGN]

Holy C***

Normal traffic or was there a wreck ahead?

[INEEDAGN]

more. Traffic was due to flooding. Read my post up the page a bit for the full sob story about that day.

[JOHNDEEREGN]

Sorry for missing the post Bob, that really sucks. Went by your work the other day on Hwy 36, was going to stop by and say Hi but had to get to Frontier Chemical and the co-op before 5.

If time allows I will stop soon and BS, or you can buy lunch

[INEEDAGN]

more

[INEEDAGN]

more. The first pic is not supposed to be a lake........