We’ve covered HOT ROD Power Tour® on this page before, but 2019 is a landmark year for the event: the 25th anniversary! So, this look back is at its origin, which happened during one of the most noteworthy staff meetings in HOT ROD history. In late 1994, Editor Drew Hardin and his editorial staff—which, at the time, consisted of Gray Baskerville, Will Handzel, Rob Kinnan, Cole Quinnell, and Jeff Smith—had been instructed to come up with a way to increase awareness of the brand-new HOT ROD Power Festival series. Several notions were thrown around, then massaged into a single idea: Rather than fly into Norwalk, Ohio, for the Power Festival, why not drive there from our home base in Los Angeles and invite our readers to do the same? To…