{"id":62745,"date":"2019-06-10T15:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T22:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=62745"},"modified":"2019-06-20T11:21:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T18:21:05","slug":"hot-rod-power-tour-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/hot-rod-power-tour-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Rod Power Tour Kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-62745-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/Russell-Muller-HRPTDay1-9-min-1024x683.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;62754&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Hot Rod Power Tour Kickoff&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The 25th annual Hot Rod Power Tour kicked off on Saturday, June 8th at ZMAX Dragway in Concord, NC. It has been called the world\\u2019s largest traveling car show, with several thousand cars participating as it travels through seven cities in seven days. This is my first Power Tour, and I am hoping to do it from start to finish in my 1971 Pontiac Grand Prix. That\\u2019s called doing the Long Haul\\u2026\\n\\nThe venue opened at 9:00 AM, and by the time I arrived (9:15) there were already 400 + cars inside. There is a vendor midway, with displays from Chevrolet, Edelbrock, Continental Tire, Tremec, Dakota Digital and dozens more. ZMAX opened up the race track for Power Tour participants, and everything from modern 12-second Challengers to vintage hot rods were running the \\u00bc mile. The most unique vehicle I watched was an old Jeep do a 23.9-second \\u00bc mile. Anyone and everyone was welcome to race.\\n\\nBy midday, there were several thousand Power Tour cars in attendance. From rat rods to resto-mods, classics to modern muscle, virtually anything you could want to see was on display. But the Power Tour isn\\u2019t just about the cars, in fact, most veteran Long Haulers will tell you that it\\u2019s about the people, not the cars. Here are a few of the people that I met up with on Day 1:\\n\\nLarry Powell and his Dad, Larry Powell Sr. They are doing their first Power Tour together in Larry\\u2019s Pontiac G8 for his Dad\\u2019s 60th birthday. They both took turns running the G8 down the \\u00bc mile track today and turned virtually identical times.\\n\\nTara Bush, who has taken here extremely rare 1967 Acadian Canso on the last 8 consecutive Power Tours with her boyfriend Steve Klein. Steve\\u2019s parents also came along, driving Steve\\u2019s 2015 Corvette.\\n\\nSeveral members of Classic Camaro of Central Florida are doing the tour together this year. 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