Hot Rod Power Tour 2015 Day 0: Minneapolis-Madison and Check-In

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06/05/2015 at 23:12 • Filed to: Hot Rod Power Tour

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Today involved the journey from Minneapolis to Madison to check-in as a Power Tour “Long Hauler”. A luckily uneventful trip, but our convoy did pick up another for a little while, a North Dakotan with a 4th Gen Camaro SS:

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Arriving at the Alliant Energy Center, even the check-in was impressive. Muscle cars and trucks of all years and shapes arriving and departing the parking lot. Some, like us, cleaning off the bugs and road debris from the road trip to Madison. People from Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Minnesota, etc. I was amazed at the journey some made just to go from beginning to end. While the car show starts tomorrow, seeing the long haulers roll in was pretty cool.

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Sweet Ford-powered rat rod pickup by Alloy.

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Awesome ‘68 (?) Firebird, love these bodies.

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My uncle followed us to Madison to see the cars

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And finally, our hotel parking lot:

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That’s all for today folks! The real show begins tomorrow, and I’ll be emptying out my phone to make space for pictures.


DISCUSSION (2)


Kinja'd!!! Wurrwulf > 80CobraKid
06/06/2015 at 14:01

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I have a buddy who’s done the long haul in his gen 1 Lightning a couple of times. He said it was a blast. So many stories about the late night hotel parking lots.


Kinja'd!!! 80CobraKid > Wurrwulf
06/06/2015 at 14:17

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Yeah we had cops called on suspicious activity at our hotel last night, running back and forth, looked like they were casing the lot.