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Originally Posted by MMARSH
Thats awesome, been watching power tour videos the last couple of days. Called my buddy and said we are doing it next year. How'd the car do? How many miles you do? It was pretty hot, looked like alot of cars were having trouble dealing with the heat.
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This was the first Power Tour for me, but it seemed like most of the attendees have done multiple ones. Like 5+. It helps if you're local, obviously, but as I understand it it is not always in the same place every year. I trailered from metro-NY to Charleston SC where my FIL lives, and then we unloaded the Mustang and drove to Columbia to catch Day 2. From there we drove to Rockingham, then Charlotte, then Bristol TN. All in all I'd say it was 1,000 miles? My odometer is suspect. I'm not opposed to doing it again at all, but this year with my son's leave and my availability, the stars aligned. I wouldn't go alone...
The car did fine, with some trepidations... it did complete the loop and didn't strand us. But it started running like crap until I determined that I had some trash in my fuel bowls and metering blocks that had to be dealt with (that's the pic of me draining the bowl), my rear discs decided to begin to shudder on this outing (I was able to mostly dial out with my adjustable proportioning valve for the rest of the trip), and my clutch started slipping on the last day when attempting to accelerate in overdrive. So we babied it from Bristol back to NC to the trailer hoping it didn't get worse. There was some overheating, but no one who pulled over didn't have 4 other cars pull over to see if they could help. With a group of mostly home-built hot rods, there was some capable and well-stocked participants at every turn.
It's a unique experience to drive through towns with people in lawn chairs all along the way waving, or to pull into a gas station with 10 other vintage cars and have the locals jaws drop wondering what the heck is going on.
