Envision a world where every car in sight is a hot rod or street machine and you’ve pictured life on the HOT ROD Power Tour®. An explanation for those of you who’ve not left your hovels for 15 years: HOT ROD maps a road trip through seven cities and sets up party stops every night, title sponsor GM Performance Division makes it happen, and 3,000 to 4,000 cars join us each day to live the dream.
This year, the route took us on a 1,370-mile trek from the Kickoff Party hosted by Painless Performance in Newton, Iowa, to the Surf City Garage party in Mobile, Alabama, June 5-12. An amazing 4,850 cars and an estimated 76,500 spectators participated during the week, and 2,570 people in 1,512 cars went all the…