Steve and Tara's Power Tour Adventures
A day by day blog of the annual Hot Rod Power Tour
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Our Power Tour excitement started the day before we left when Don finally diagnosed and eliminated the Acadian front end squeak we've been chasing for more than a year. It was a bad front spring perch. Fortunately, since Don just recently restored a 1967 Nova, he had a new one on his shelf and swapped it out.
One last tweak to end the squeak
Even though the Power Tour starts in Charlotte and is a day's drive, we hit the road bright and early on Thursday, June 6 with a plan to visit close family friends near Burnsville. Tara, my parents and I met up with our friend and famed automotive photographer Russ Muller and his 1971 Pontiac Grand Prix and headed out of town.
St. John's Sunrise
We managed to beat Jacksonville rush hour traffic before making our first of nearly countless gas stops. The Acadian averages about 15 mpg and the gas gauge reads about 3 gallons low, so how far we can actually go ends up being part gas gauge, part logic and a lot of "yeah, I think we can go 20 more miles before we stop." That plan's worked for the last 8 years why change.