Power Tour 2026

[TotalyHucked]

Yeah, I guess the route/what venue it is plays a big role too. I heard lots of horror stories from Charlotte and Atlanta Motor Speedway. I'd say most people are still positive about it but I do hear more and more grumbling as time goes on. One of these days I'll try it myself to see first hand how it is. My dad's getting older so I'm running out of time, gotta get some AC in the truck and then do it

 

[straydog371]

Not part of "Power Tour 2026" but similar since it's related to the 100th Anniversary of Route 66.

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Derek Bieri from Vice Grip Garage is the one that motivated me to find and save a squarebody. It's a pretty long video and unfortunately the ending isn't what he'd hoped for. You can scroll forward to around the 1hr 10min mark when he explains what happened.

Apologies in advance for hijacking the original thread.

 

[bucket]

Yeah, I guess the route/what venue it is plays a big role too. I heard lots of horror stories from Charlotte and Atlanta Motor Speedway. I'd say most people are still positive about it but I do hear more and more grumbling as time goes on. One of these days I'll try it myself to see first hand how it is. My dad's getting older so I'm running out of time, gotta get some AC in the truck and then do it

I ran all of '24. I traveled with a guy that had been doing the tour for many years. He didn't complain about it at all, but he did mention a couple times how it used to be much nicer, just due to the smaller croud. My wife and I though, we absolutely loved it. We had our 1 year old son with us too. A couple venues weren't very well prepared (Bowling Green and Nashville, iirc) but it was still a great trip. Great enough that we immediately planned to run '25 as well.

And then we ran '25 as well and had just as much fun (other than a mild breakdown on the hottest day). Not only did we have our 2 year old with us, but also our 3 month old twins. Getting into all the venues was easy last year.

We were really looking forward to going this year too. It sucks that we couldn't.

 

[bluex]

Yeah, I guess the route/what venue it is plays a big role too. I heard lots of horror stories from Charlotte and Atlanta Motor Speedway. I'd say most people are still positive about it but I do hear more and more grumbling as time goes on. One of these days I'll try it myself to see first hand how it is. My dad's getting older so I'm running out of time, gotta get some AC in the truck and then do it

Do it! I had always wanted to an had a buddy that had done several. We did get to go on what turned out to be his last one. Some of my best memories are from that trip an it was the most fun automotive related trip I have ever had.

The complainers are all your ever going to hear from because the people enjoying it are to busy having fun to post. 100% make sure your cooling system is in tip top shape. If it cant idle in 100*+ heat with the ac on max for 2 hrs your gonna have trouble.

Go, enjoy the drive, the sights an dont stress over the "time". We left way early one morning to "beat" the traffic an it was the most boring day. No spectators out on the route, we did get in the venue easy an got to watch alot of the cars roll in. So I guess it depends on how you want to do it. Just dont let the negativity online keep you away from it.