This thing is unstoppable. With the depressed economy, the staggering unemployment, the devastation in Detroit, the increasing gas prices, and an encroaching government, there isn’t an analyst on Earth who would have predicted that a mass of people would have paid $65 in advance to take a weekplus vacation burning fossil fuels and rubber while chasing friends on an eight-day, sevencity, 1,176-mile trip from the Midwest to the South.
But that’s the HOT ROD Power Tour®, and it continues to amaze. This year’s 15th running was, once again, the biggest ever.
The margin of gain was not massive, but considering the situation, it was miraculous. We had the most Long Haulers (who drove the entire route with us) ever at 1,342 cars and 2,375 people. The total number of cars…