We completed the Power Tour! 

    We covered 2300 miles in the Road Hummer with no problems!  We cruised at 80 MPH, (sometimes 90) and achieved an incredible 19 miles per gallon! (with the A/C on!)  The 4L60 overdrive trans really made it easy to cruise at today's interstate speeds.  

    We are now in the Long Hauler Gang!  

        The Gaylord Opryland Hotel was magnificent and the parking lot was jam packed with every imaginable car. (Check out these images) The chassis dyno was also there, and roaring, full-throttle pulls could be heard all day long!

     My buddy Matt Delaney (he built the Viper-powered Charger) put together our Cruise Machine for the '03 HRPT.  It is a 1972 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus.  It has (er, had) 52,000 original miles on it, but the 318 had to go.  Matt grabbed one of his many 340 blocks and stuffed a Mopar Performance 4 inch  crank in it, had the heads worked and hid it all (416 inches of smoke-the-tires-at-will torque) under an original orange 340 breather assembly.   I  installed a tricked-out 4L60 (700R4) (built by yours truly) and a 2000 stall L/U convertor , with the aid of a TCI adapter kit.