2019 HOT ROD Power Tour: Indianapolis to Fort Wayne

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Part 3 of 4 reveals the people

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 I never thought I'd actually be here with the crew right now

00:17 or anything like that, like ever.

00:20 I'm just a regular Joe, you know what I mean?

00:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:25 [ENGINE REVVING]

00:29 You know, we found out that Power Tour is coming to Brownsville.

00:40 I was like, oh, yeah, oh, let's go set up my car.

00:42 I found out about it a couple of weeks ago.

00:44 Took a vacation day to get out here and watch

00:46 all the cars pass through.

00:47 Biggest event to come through Jackson County in quite a while.

00:50 We had Power Tour come through Seymour a couple of years ago.

00:54 It's been probably three or four years.

00:55 But I just got to see a little bit of it

00:57 because I didn't have the day off.

01:01 I've been here since 8 o'clock this morning.

01:03 There's about 25 to 30 of us retired gentlemen

01:08 that meet for breakfast at a restaurant in Seymour.

01:12 Car people.

01:13 All car people.

01:13 And one lady, me.

01:15 [LAUGHTER]

01:16 Got to have our camera lady.

01:18 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:21 [ENGINE REVVING]

01:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:28 We made it.

01:35 It was a fast trip today.

01:37 How did it compare to yesterday?

01:40 A little hotter.

01:41 Yesterday was gorgeous.

01:42 It's hard to compare to yesterday.

01:44 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:47 Are we halfway through now?

01:50 Or is this past the halfway point?

01:52 I believe it's past the halfway point, right?

01:54 Yeah.

01:54 It's Wednesday.

01:55 We stopped Friday.

01:56 So--

01:56 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:59 Lots of people think it's the tools.

02:01 Can you imagine if someone stole this?

02:02 But we've got-- and this is because I try to be a good dad.

02:05 We've got vegetables down here.

02:07 We've got-- this is stuff that's moving.

02:08 We've got milk right there.

02:11 And we've got, again, some vegetables.

02:13 We got fruit mostly in here.

02:15 And protein, snacks.

02:19 And then a little of each because it's a lot easier

02:21 to open the top than the drawers because they all get shut,

02:23 you know, and locked down.

02:25 That's our food situation.

02:26 And it's working really, really good.

02:28 Traveling 6,000 miles in a caged car

02:31 to go drag racing on Hot Rod Power Tour,

02:33 how can we not do that?

02:34 That's bucket list living for sure.

02:36 So we're going to see if it passes tech.

02:38 And I've learned from experience in my six drag races

02:41 that you have to wear a helmet.

02:44 I have to put my window net up.

02:46 You have to wear a shirt when you drag race.

02:47 No one tells you that.

02:48 You also have to wear pants and real shoes.

02:50 So I have my drag racing kit.

02:52 Everything fits inside the helmet.

02:53 And we're going to go drag race to punish tech.

02:55 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:58 I can't wait to watch that tape on a computer.

03:14 It's actually really fun.

03:16 Yeah, I know.

03:17 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:20 Going down to 13.20.

03:26 I love it.

03:27 The Punish Tank.

03:28 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:37 [ENGINE REVVING]

03:40 I think I had a BMW engine in it for about a week.

04:03 But it just won't compare.

04:07 I mean, this is basically 700 wheel horsepower.

04:11 I really bought this just to do the swap.

04:14 I haven't been able to replace everything yet.

04:17 We've got GM brake calipers on the front.

04:20 And just kind of try to do some weird stuff.

04:23 I haven't gotten a 10 second run yet.

04:26 We did 11.1 at 133 miles an hour.

04:30 [MUSIC PLAYING]

04:34 [ENGINE REVVING]

04:38 Sometimes it's hot.

04:40 Sometimes it's a little sticky.

04:42 Today it's really wet.

04:44 [MUSIC PLAYING]

04:48 A little bit wet, but that's OK.

04:53 It's going to come out.

04:54 It's a free car wash.

04:55 That's the whole thing.

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05:03 (chimes)

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