HRPT Day 4 - Atlanta

This morning started with a quick 20 minute drive from our hotel in Locust Grove over to Atlanta Motor Speedway.  Today was a nice change of pace as it was the starting celebration which didn't require much driving.  As strange as it sounds, my right knee appreciates it as there must be a tendon that is stress from the way I sit and push the gas pedal for the 950 miles we drove the past two days.

The event opened at 9 AM but we showed up at 8:45 to beat some of the crowd.  There were probably already 200 cars lined up to enter.  We were put into lines of about 20 cars and just parked until a little after 9 AM.  This gave us some time to walk around and look at some of the cars.  I was also able to take a picture of the car in front of the speedway.  

Aaron took a video of us once we started moving.  We entered the speedway in a long line through a tunnel and parked in the infield.  I decided to pop the hood while I parked as the parking area is as much a car show as it is a parking lot.  

The speedway had vendors, an autocross, dragstrip, and a dyno.  It reminded me of a larger Goodguys type event.  Aaron and I walked through everything, took a few pictures of cars, picked up some giveaway items, took a picture with Alex Taylor, and then walked the parking lot for a while looking at cars.  We ended up leaving for the day around 1 o'clock.  As with the day prior, the chances of rain where high but it never rained.  It was just overcast and cool all day.

After the show, we decided to drive by the Summit to just walk around since we had some time.  Strangely, we pulled up and Derek from Vice Grip Garage was in the lot getting his cars ready to go into the show.  I stopped by said hi and shook his hand.  There were three other cars in various states of repair in the parking lot including one from a YouTube channel that was replacing a transmission.  Before leaving, I took a picture of the Mustang with the Vice Grip Garage vehicles in the background.

We ate a quick lunch at Zaxby's and then at Lovin' Oven pizza shop for dinner.  The pizza place was great and was in the historic district area.  There was tons of parking and we ended up parked in the city park right behind the pizza place.  I was expecting everywhere to be overrun with people but it was easy to get in and out.  

We finished the day with 992 miles for this trip and a fill up from last night of just 3.214 gallons.  I'll calculate it again farther into the trip but it seems we are getting 17.9 MPG will the A/C running.  That is mostly highway miles running around 70 MPH.  Tomorrow we start the first true driving day of the Power Tour.