As a fellow rider, prayers for your son! I have been riding for almost 50 years, in the past 2-3 I have had more close calls than all combined....texting, talking on phones every time! Hope he heals fast and 100%!

 

Still having intermittent download issues.Will be visiting CF member BB767 today. I think my issue could be resolved. Hitting the road to Champaign Il in a few mins. Dennis

 

it's possible... I did 1100 miles from Inverness FL to past St Louis the first day of my 2012 Adventure and a lot of 500, 600, 800 mile days thereafter...


Bill

 

Add another thing to my bucket list!

Looks amazing.

 

Dennis did make out out to my shop and the new house for a visit yesterday afternoon. He appeared to be a little tired from the heat. We did a quick shop tour and then we had a relaxed, laid back dinner at home. We tried to find his laptop/phone download problem. His laptop is not always detecting that his phone is plugged in to it. Seems to be an intermittent problem.

It was great meeting him after conversing with him for several years here and on the Garage Journal Forum. His '67 looks and sounds awesome! In spite of the heat he seems to be having a lot of fun on the tour.

Thomas

 

if the heat was bothering him...wonder how he will feel when he gets down to Georgia later this week so we can hang out a bit. 20+ years of being friends (Carlisle) and he is finally coming this way...to bad the festivities around here will be for bandit Trans Ams, no matter as I plan on taking my corvette as well, as the chase car for the bandit jump is my car (not the vette)

 

Is it an iPhone? If so I had the same problem. It will keep getting worse until it won't even charge. For me it was a common problem and an easy fix so if his is iPhone maybe he will get lucky too. The newer iPhones have a pretty small port for the charger/usb cable and they easily get debris in them. I keep my phone in my pocket and it got packed with lint. The port is small and tight so everytime you plug in it packs it tight until the crap builds up too much. Compressed air couldn't even get it out. I ended up scraping it out with the pointy end of a thumb tack.

Hopefully that helps. If it's not iPhone I have no idea but wanted to share what I did when my phone did that.

 

Root2812, good thoughts! Just maybe! Just tried to download...nothing! BB767, Thomas, thanks for the effort and the gracious visit. I really enjoyed it. You are correct, the heat and driving duration can suck the energy out of me, but when I get to the hotels, I'm in the pool and cool!
We are in Indy today at the Lucas Motorsports Park. Better driving today. Started with rain then gradual light overcast.That made it easier on everyone. Headed for food and a cold one! Later! Dennis

 

The HRPT is done! Amazing event and a real test of man and car, of which both have made it uncathed. As soon as I fix the phone to laptop communcation issue, I promise to post with pics. Dennis

 

The 2017 Hot Rod Power Tour is in the books . . . and some of the "official" photos are now posted on the web. Pasted below is the link - Bluestripe67's car is pictured in photo #123 parked next to Sky65's

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/250-p...head-stadium/#

Enjoy!

Tom

 

Thank you guys for keeping this thread up! I'll keep checking for photos after the fact!

 

Hi Dennis,

Send yourself an email with 5-10 pictures with iPhone . Then open email on computer, photos now on computer. Or just upload them to CF from iPhone and post

Jack

 

Don't ask how or why, but they did!
1. Started with meeting a great guy from Porto Rico who has this Grand Sport that is spot on accurate and sounds incrediable.
2. Cruising at speed when on the interstate, but mostly traveled the secondary roads for the sites and the waving people.
3. This is the roadside breakdown on Sky65's Vette at Vandalia, Ill. Guy stopped, asked if we needed tools or help. Pulled over anyway. He was local and had his own motorcycle/ATV/sml engine shop. He connected to and chased parts from local parts stores and secured parts from other sources. It took the whole day to trace the issue and get on the road at 8:30. Thanks Toby!
4. I'm at the Newton venue and had discovered in the morning that one of my header brackets had cracked. GM provides a rolling team of techs from the GM Proving grounds. They are called the GM MOtor Medics. They are very capable of repairing non catastropic mechanical issues. I removed the bracket, they welded it..DONE! NO charge to anyone for any work.
5. At one of the hotels loaded with cars was this very nice C-1 with a full Morrison chassis and late model drivetrain.
6. As we passed through many miles of cornfields, farm house lawns were loaded with well wishers. I passed this one, then turned around and returned to meet them. Great people and happy to see the cars passing by. They had their own collection. '34 Ford, '68 Charger, '55 Chevy, '58 Vette and in the large shop was a the '63 SWC w/FI. I'm really glad I stopped.
7. Each day as we arrived at the next venue the primary social interaction was at the HRPT stage. Next to it was the HRPT punch clock that I needed to punch in ecah day to validate I was "Long Hauler".
8. While driving along I spotted one of the HRPT staff busses on the roadside so I stopped to help. Simple issue with low coolent. Rolling in no time.
9. While at the Champaign Ill venue our CF member BB767 invited me to see his restored 1930's shop and cars. Thomas has two nice C-2's and the amazing facility to care for them.
10. Made my Bowling Green stop at the NCM for an undated tour since the sinkhole incident. It is really worthwhile for anyone to see this. The cars that can't be restored and almost unrecognizable.

I can tell each and everyone of you it was a unique experience and one I have some great detail memories of. It was physicall taxing due to the heat and no A/C, but I sucked it up and kept moving. Covered 3891 miles so far (not home yet) but home is the end point, so it will be over 4K miles, three quarts of oil, and many gallons of gas, but I averaged over 18mpg.
I'll post some other pics on a separate thread. I hope these pics come out rightside up. Thanks for bearing with me on this event. Dennis

 

The post above was supposed too have these pics within it. Why they didn't is way far and above my knowledge. So here it goes. Dennis

Don't beat me up too much, I know they showed up sideways and can't explain it.