Hot Rod Power Tour 2011, Day One: Cocoa Beach, FL

First day of the Hot Rod Power Tour 2011. I opened the shades and it wasn’t raining, or over cast. Just really hot. So I packed up my stuff and headed over to the Waffle House for some quick breakfast before heading to the venue. This was easy peasy, not like in past years where I come in on the first day of the Tour. This made things much easier. Just cruised in down the road.



Pulling in, the signs were not very clear, where the cars had to go when done registering and such. Most parked near registration and thought that was it. They were very confused when confronted and told that this was just for those registering.







After registering to win a 1970 Superbird, I made my way to Mike Meade and the rest of the group, already situated in the main venue. Which was pretty interesting area, used normally for cars I guess when getting on cruise ships. It was hot today, and there was little to no breeze. But it was still fun to walk around.












































I walked and walked through the entire thing. The show cars were broken into 4 sections byh fencing, so it was fairly easy to just go up and down the rows and hit everything. I’m sure i missed stuff as it came in. But it was a easy walk, except for the heat. Ironically as I got to the end of the show cars, PINKHEMI from a few boards I am a part of showed up.

We introduced ourselves and chatted for a while about our cas and what had been going on. But we moved on as they wanted to hit up the show.


I ended up back at my car, recovered for a bit with Mike, got some water in me and we both setout to hit up the vendors area. I had yet to go in there. It was nicely condensed, unlike in some past venues. It was easy to hit up everything in a relatively short time. Saw some of my Hot Rod buddies, from Dennis Pittsenbarger to the guys from Eaton… who remembed me winning a free center section… and then never claiming it. But they said that they would talk to their bosses and see if I could still claim it.



















By late afternoon I had throughly cooked my arms, and needed to remove myself from the show. I had wanted to just see the shuttle, but that wasn’t in the cards. Instead I found a cool Mopar car hauler and Dart looking like it had seen better days.








After a nice dinner with good friends, on our way back we saw a derelict Barracuda, not being able not to help, we pulled in and asked what we could do. Fortunately they had someone running to get the loctite to help hold the bolt keeping the oil filter adapter in place. So after waiting a while, getting the stuff and putting it back together we actually had a pretty good gathering of Mopars right there in an abandoned BP station!





Eventuallt Dave Ferro and the Totally Auto crew found us! We were just hanging out in the end, enjoying the company. Swapping over some stuff he had for mr. It was fun. But all good things ya know. It was getting later, I was exhausted and needed to get up early.



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NOW THE BIG THING>>>>>>> The Omelet Station no longer exists, it is called Boston Beef and Seafood. I heard they have a good breakfast, so the time and address are the same.