Another fun day. It started with breakfast in the hotel, then, with appropriate GPS input, we were quickly at the University of Texas at Arlington campus. The campus is surrounded by treed neighborhoods and people benefited with many setting up under the trees to watch the hot rods enter in parking lot. We entered the first parking lot, having no real idea of what we were doing. It was easy to find a parking place. We went to the registration tent. We were pre-registered and were quickly through that line. Then we went back to our car, still getting oriented, when cars suddenly started their engines and started to form a line. We quickly followed. Today was a day to be a sheep. If you see a long line, get in it. If you see a longer line, go faster. This time, the line led our car to the venue parking, a great parking place, where maybe 1200 cars were parked.
We had hats autographed by Vic Eldebrock. Missed an autograph by Linda Vaughn, Miss Hurst, obviously someone famous in her arena. Those lines were long.
All morning was spent walking from vendor to vendor, getting freebies, signing up for contests. We enjoyed talking to other hot rodders. We set up our chairs and, even though it was a hot day, I wasn't minding the heat. If you go on the Hot Rod Power Tour, just decide to be hot and sweaty for days. If you can make you peace with that, you'll do great. An frozen cappuccino at the middle of the day helped. Finally, at 1:00 PM, we thought we had seen enough for the day and came back to the hotel. Once I was in air conditioning, I realized just how hot I was and it took a while to cool down. We had a rest and went back out to the venue at 4:00. Hundreds of people set up their folding chairs at the venue stage to wait for giveaways. The best prize was a set of Continental tires. Someone won $200 of gas. That was what I wanted. The long-haulers (people who travel the whole five days) have the potential to win the best prizes.
At 6:30, we went to eat BBQ with the Dallas-area Buick Club. Three people were there. Great BBQ.
After supper, it was back to the hotel for some visiting and swimming.
I've tried to post photos with my iPad but have not figured out how to do that yet.
Jim's favorite cars of the day
- Rat Rod with LT1, lowered to the ground, great rust effect with the bottom edge of the doors
rusted through
- 54 Mercury, great custom job with great seats, beautiful
- 57 white Cadillac convertible (Jim's dad had one that his mom did not like and Jim, the 8 year
old, loved. He was a gearhead even then.
Thumbs up today - 13
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