Road Trip 2019: Business Office I - 3 Guys, 4 Junkyards, 7 Racetracks In Addition To Ability Tour
Shotgun! Junkyard Life ready off on the mother-of-all round-trip, route trips during this year's 25th Hot Rod Power Tour. We crammed our gear into the much-too minor for viii days on the road, heavily-modified, 1966 Chevrolet Impala. It's an LS-powered, All-Wheel-Drive beast. We planned to crunch on the high-mile junkyard engine during high-speed boom at race tracks together with on the backroads to junkyards. piece trying to avoid speeding tickets betwixt our destinations. Odds were skillful that nosotros could at to the lowest degree larn lost inwards the pack alongside thousands of beau Hot Rod Power Tour participants should nosotros larn caught alongside our human foot acting stupid.
Our starting fourth dimension halt was H.L. Hodges Auto Parts inwards Monroe, Georgia. The yard is run yesteryear iii sisters who are planning to unopen the describe concern yesteryear the cease of 2019. The sisters, Harreitte Hodges, Terri Hodges together with Holly Couch, took over the describe concern when their brother, Hugh Lamar Hodges, passed away 10 years ago.
Family-owned for many decades only the strain of maintaining a salve yard together with other careers has taken a toll. Many of the cars guide hold been sold off or scrapped. Before the yr is out the residual volition live on scrapped every bit well. We flora enough of cars together with trucks worth saving. We innovation to become back, earlier it's also late!
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| Lots of quondam Fe at H.L Hodges inwards Monroe, Georgia. |
Load'em up
We striking the route in i lawsuit to a greater extent than alongside Concord, North Carolina every bit the adjacent destination. The weather condition forecast was nifty for ducks. We striking pelting correct off the bat only that didn't deter us. The 25th anniversary of the Hot Rod Power Tour awaited us at Lowes Motor Speedway.
Check-in, goodie bags therefore nosotros grabbed dinner later a 700 mile twenty-four hours of driving. thirteen hours spent riding together with climbing in-and-out of the 1966 Impala that would live on our habitation for many to a greater extent than hours during the adjacent week.
Part 2: We caput to Martinsville, Virginia.
Jody Potter
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