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WELCOME TO THE ONLY OFFICIAL
MoPowerTour 2011 WEB COVERAGE!
Touted as “America’s Greatest Road Trip," the Power Tour is a
cross country few-thousand mile hell-of-a-good-time with over 3000
muscle cars, hot rods, and street machines rumbling across the USA.
And....www.totallyautoinc.com can take you there live!
MoPowered Tour 2011, GET YOUR MOTORS RUNNING!!!!!!
7 cities---9 days! Or something like that……..
June 4-12 2011
Over the past 7-years, the MoPowered Tour has taken on a life of its own.
You’ve read the stories from the road, seen the fun in pictures, read about it in the magazine and watched it HERE, on the web!
Now its time to experience The MoPowered Tour for yourself.
For 2011, Mopar Collectors Guide Magazine and Totally Auto Inc., will once again join forces to organize the Mopar faithful on the
Hot Rod Power Tour into our well known “tour within the tour” - the MoPowered Tour.
This is just our way of making America's Greatest Road Trip a little more special for all of our Mopar friends.
We will be doing things just a little differently this year.
Last year our good buddy, aspiring journalist and moparts.com alumni Ryan Brutt took the reins and the lead.
This year Ryan will continue in that capacity and has already done a fine job lining up stopovers, places to see, stuff to eat and (unlike past tours), things to do that can actually be printed on this family oriented site.
MoPowered Tour ORIGINAL's Dave Ferro, Charlie Dallas, Robert Wolf & Billy Uhl will still be doing their best to stay out of jail, at or around the speed limit, (we hope), and generally tear things up, just in a different capacity.
It seems many had a problem keeping up with Dave as he drove the Totally Auto built LEAD Vehicles through the years and, rather than try and slow these guys down, we are offering an alternative; ride with the dogs up front or hang back and enjoy the scenery.
Either way, the MoPower Tour has a place for you.
In the past, we threw a bunch of parties, made a bunch of plans and then never even showed up. Not purposely, mind you, just circumstances like blown Road Runner engines, kids spraying us with mace, (while driving), cars falling in swimming pools and the like, kept us from making it to some of our own cool stuff.
Now, with sensible Ryan at the lead and the Masters of Mayhem free to come, go and do as they please, the MoPower Tour just got ALOT more interesting!
Driving the "Camera Car" loaded with both still cameras and HD video, the Totally Auto / MCG guys are free to roam, photo cars for the magazine and shoot off at speed into the horizon. They will also be doing Video for MoprTV!
Daily web postings will continue too………. But with a twist.
The antics you have become accustomed to when Dave and Rob join forces will more than likely continue and will be posted HERE at totallyautoinc.com…. Daily…….We hope.
Ryan, on the other hand, being much more responsible about the whole thing, will continue his blog EVERY EVENING at http://powertour2011.wordpress.com/
There, you will see many of the food stops, (doughnuts?), planned activities and actual Power Tour coverage from a his point of view.
Congrats to Ryan for the 2010 coverage he penned in Mopar Collectors Guide Magazine and thanks again buddy for your help this year! Look for Ryan in the Blue Challenger shown below;
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www.totallyautoinc.com will again go LIVE,
from June 4th to June 11th
Bringing you daily updates of each days escapades and fun.
Below are the dates and planned destinations for 2011.
As we post each day, the date/destination below will become a live button so you and/or loved ones can check in on the days events.
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CONFIRMED TOUR STOPS, SCHEDULE AND DATES
PLEASE CHECK BACK OFTEN AS WE UPDATE INFORMATION
MoPowered Tour Morning Meeting Spot: NONE, We meet up the day the Tour actually starts.
NOTE; Many will be hanging out at the first hotel;
Comfort Inn & Suites
3901 N Atlantic Ave
COCOA BEACH,FL 32931
Power Tour Starting Point Cocoa Beach, FL Port Canaveral
MoPowered Tour Morning Meeting Spot: The Omelet Station, 5590 N Atlantic Ave Cocoa Beach, FL 32931
Then; it's off to our only "Official Drivers Meeting" at the
Power Tour Starting Point Cocoa Beach, FL Port Canaveral
Those with tickets; Kennedy Space Center Tour
MoPowered Tour Stop: Don Garlits Museum: 13700 SW 16th Avenue, Ocala, Florida 34473
Destination; Valdosta, GA South Georgia Motorsports Park
MoPowered Tour Morning Meeting Spot: A J's Country Kitchen, 614 N Hutchinson Ave Adel, GA 31620
Destination; Montgomery, AL Montgomery Motorsports Park
MoPowered Tour Morning Meeting Spot: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, 9191 Boyd Cooper Pkwy Montgomery, AL 36117
MoPowered Tour Stop: Wellborn Muscle Car Museum: 124 Broad Street Alexander City, AL 35010
Destination; Nashville, TN LP Field
EVENING EVENT, GRAND OLE OPRY 9:30 PM
MoPowered Tour Morning Meeting Spot: Arnold's Country Kitchen 605 8th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203
Destination; Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis Motor Speedway
EVENING EVENT; AFTER 5PM Finer Details: 121 Commerce Drive, Danville, IN 46122
MoPowered Tour Morning Meeting Spot: Charlie Brown's Pancakes:1038 Main St Indianapolis, IN 46224
MoPowered Tour Stop: VerHage Motors MOPAR Museum;
Just a half mile off US31 west on the Bus Route Interstate I-196 exit, turn right at the first stop lamp.
Destination; Muskegon, MI Downtown Muskegon
MoPowered Tour Morning Meeting Spot: Toast 'N Jams, 3462 Henry St Muskegon, MI 49441
Destination; Detroit, MI Metro Beach Metropark
Saturday, June 11th
MoPowered Tour Morning Meeting Spot: JoMomma's Kitchen 39 N Main St Mt Clemens, MI 48043
MoPowered Tour Special Stop Planned Mopar Party @ Chrysler Museum
Final Destination for Power Tour 2011; Detroit, MI Long Haulers Ceremony GM Proving Grounds.
Remember - the Mopowered Tour is a family friendly event and we highly encourage you to bring your son, daughter, wife, Mom, brother, whoever, along for the ride. We guarantee, after a week of high horsepower hijinks on the road, they’ll either love or hate hot rods forever!
Differing from years past, MCG will NOT be giving out free Mopowered Tour shirts (FYI: There is no corporate sponsorship or help from Chrysler again, this year, so it's all out of pocket once again in 2011.), however, they are still free when you subscribe or renew your subscription to MCG along the way. There will only be a limited number of these really cool, custom Tour-shirts, so hit Rob or Ryan up early! Shirts will be available for $15.
Click MCG logo to subscribe to MCG and get a free Tour-Shirt
Don’t forget, we don’t charge to be a part of the Mopowered Tour, however, if you’re going to participate in any of the festivities at the Hot Rod Power Tour venues, you’ll need to pay to play with them — which we highly encourage you do so at hotrod.com.
Speaking of signing up; Be sure to do so by emailing the following to mopoweredtour@yahoo.com
YOUR NAME;
YEAR/MAKE/MODEL/COLOR OF YOUR MOPAR
STOPS YOU PLAN ON ATTENDING
CELL PHONE NUMBER FOR USE ON TOUR- (text capable)
EMAIL ADDRESS
HOW MANY IN YOUR RIDE
T-SHIRT SIZE PREFERRED ($15 each)
Remember, signing up with us is free but it helps us to get an idea on body counts for shirts and activities. Cell number helps should plans change on the road. We may be texting changes, detours, party info, etc., from the road.
Stunts and/or action sequences depicted are performed by or under the guidance of trained professionals on a closed road course and are for illustration purposes only. The stunt sequences shown on this Website could be extremely dangerous (if untrained) and should under no circumstances be attempted or duplicated by any individual. In other words, do not try this at home. Although illustrated for entertainment purposes, this Corporation in no way supports any antic or form of street racing. Wanta' race? Do it at the track!
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ALL UPDATES PRIOR TO THE TOUR WILL BE POSTED HERE
PLEASE CHECK BACK OFTEN FOR THE LATEST INFO
UPDATE 4/1/11
The Stolen '67 Barracuda MoPowered Tour 08 LEAD Vehicle has been FOUND!!!! No, this is not an April Fools joke. It's for real and being re-restored, complete with New-Generation HEMI at Totally Auto's shop as this is written. Besides jumping up and down with JOY, Dave is prepping the car for the 2011 MoPowered Tour, complete with Dash and fender cams to film the whole tour for MoprTV. Yes, you read it right and heard about it here first at totallyautoinc.com! Read more about it in the next edition of Mopar Collector's Guide Magazine!
NOTE FROM DAVE FERRO; Hey guys, I just want to send out a big THANK YOU to all who were looking for and suppling leads on my car. It's home, it's safe and we already stripped it to metal for a new paintjob. For over 25-years the #1 most asked question I get at shows is where is or do you still have that 67 GTX, (the answer is yes). To date…….. that question has only been topped by, what ever happened or did you ever find that '67 Barracuda," and now to that, I can finally say, the answer is YES!
UPDATE 4/2/11
Here we go again, Rob keeps calling me telling me all kinda' cool ideas I'm not allowed to talk about………YET!
Bill Uhl just made me smile with his news; He's taking his MOM in the now famous Totally Auto built 68 6PACK Beeper Convert!
Way to go Billy!
UPDATE 4/3/11
Samples of the new 2011 Tour Shirts are finally in. Special thanks Thanks to skidscustoms.com
UPDATE 4/14/11
Another MoPowerTour buddy.
Good buddy Charlie just got a Viper/Ram SRT-10 truck and he's bringing it along.
Hey, it's a car with a big trunk!
UPDATE 4/22/11
We are on a mission!
Cocoa Beach Florida.
Space shuttle Atlantis will be on the pad for it's final mission at Kennedy space center. Drive your car, inside the fence, near the shuttle pad. Take a look at the assembly building, see all of complex 39! This seems to be an "official" PowerTour stop. Times and directions should be made public at the morning drivers meeting. What a way to start a great road trip!
UPDATE 4/26/11
NOTHING MUCH TO SAY TODAY EXCEPT, HAPPY 426 DAY!
Update 5/3/11
A memorable stop along the way!
Muskegon County, Michigan
Cruising The Lakeshore! Cruise along nationally recognized sugar sand beaches and dunes. While in this historic lumber town take time to visit a Landing Ship Tank that served the beaches of Normandy during the D-Day Invasion or tour the most decorated surviving World War II submarine! Great vendors and friendly people will be on hand to make this stop memorable.
If life is a beach then, this is your way to end the Tour
UPDATE 5/4/11
News from Chrysler
Until some scheduling conflicts are worked out, we have not made this a confirmed stop yet, but, Chrysler executives have let us know about the following. Any Mopar on the tour or nearby is welcome to attend. Please show your support.
22nd Annual CEMA
(Chrysler Employee Motorsport Association)
Car Show
Celebrating
Fins, Fashion & Chrome
Special Guests at the 2011 CEMA Car Show:
"Mr. Norm” Kraus of Grand Spaulding Dodge in Chicago
Margery Krevsky – Author of “Sirens of Chrome” - The Enduring Allure of Auto Show Models
Special Feature: The NHRA Museum “Road Tour” will be on display
Welcome 2011 HOT ROD POWER TOUR Participants!
Register at www.cemaclub.org
On-Line Pre-Event Vehicle Registration fee is $15.00 throughJune 1
After June 1 (and on the day of the show) Registration is $20.00
The first 200 paid registrations receive a goody bag and dash plaque
All paid registrations receive one free pass to the Museum
The show is free to spectators; Museum admission for spectators is $4.00
On the Grounds of the Walter P. Chrysler Museum
One Chrysler Drive, Auburn Hills, MI
The CEMA Car Show benefits the Walter P. Chrysler Museum Foundation, a 501©(3) non-profit organization.
UPDATE 5/5/11
The More the Merrier
We recently got news that Mopar Muscle Magazine is also doing a Mopar only cruise as part of the tour.
Hopefully we can join forces and show the world the Mopar flag waves grand!
Randy Bolig, please give Dave at Totally Auto a call. 215 322 2277
ONE MONTH FROM TODAY, THOUSANDS OF FUEL THIRSTY RIDES HIT THE TARMAC!
UPDATE 5/6/11
Robert Wolf just confirmed the Mopar Collector's Guide
MCG rat-rod van will be at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Wed. June 8th
Find the Van and sign it while there is still space available.
Not confirmed but possible, (if it makes it, LOL) the Van will be at other stops along the way.
For those interested in the daily mileage, the following is provided.
June 2 - Heading to Florida (186 miles)
June 3 - Cocoa Beach, FL (65 miles)
June 4 - (Tour starts)
June 5 - (297 mi)
June 6 - (238 mi)
June 7 - (285 mi)
June 8 - (292 mi)
June 9 - (299 mi)
June 10 - (205 mi)
June 11 - Long Haul (1616.0 Tour Miles)
Detroit, MI to Feasterville, PA. (593 miles)
June ??who know's?? (2460.0) miles total trip back to Totally Auto, (est. lol)
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It's Official
Chrysler's Party Confirmed
22nd Annual CEMA
(Chrysler Employee Motorsport Association) Car Show
Welcomes 2011 HOT ROD POWER TOUR Participants,
On the Grounds of the Walter P. Chrysler Museum!
One Chrysler Drive, Auburn Hills, MI
Register at www.cemaclub.org
(See update (above) from 5/4/11 for additional details)
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Can't get enough o' cruising?
SCHEDULED Cruise Nights
Kickoff Cruise Night, June 4 Cocoa Beach, FL
Painless Performance Products
A drawing for a $250.00 certificate and a chance to go to the 2011 SEMA Show which includes air fare, hotel and passes.
Holley Cruise Night, June 7, Nashville
It wouldn’t be a good time in Music City without some tunes! So get ready to relax, catch some Holley giveaways,
and listen to the music on stage!
Coker Tire Cruise Night, June 8, Indianapolis
Founded in 1958, Coker Tire Company is the leading tire supplier for collector vehicles of all shapes and sizes
Pioneer Grand Finale Cruise Night, June 10, Detroit
Pioneer will be offering product, prizes and apparel packages nightly from the main stage, so don’t miss out on the chance to win free Pioneer goodies
Please support those who Sponsor the Tour!
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Totally Auto Inc. has once again stepped up with the winnow banners,
MoPoweredTour2011
Get 'em early on the Tour while supplies last!
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The shirt art (back) is complete.
They are now in the hands of Mopar Collector's guide for printing.
Here is a sample.
UPDATE 5/13/11
MoPower Tour buddy Billy Uhl was placed in charge of an evening of fun in Nashville Tn.
Sounds like we are hitting the Grand Ole Opry Tuesday Night 6/7/11
for Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, Oak Ridge Boys and more.
Those who want to join us should get tickets in advance at opry.com
UPDATE 5/14/11
New MoPowered Tour Stop added for Thursday, June 9th
VerHage Motors MOPAR Museum;
Just a half mile off US31 west on the Bus Route Interstate I-196 exit, turn right at the first stop lamp.
Thanks out to; Norm, Blaine & Lloyd VerHage
There are fuel and restaurants at the exit also for the convenience of the participants.
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We have updated the "CONFIRMED TOUR STOPS, SCHEDULE AND DATES"
listed above and will continue to do so as plans are confirmed
Be sure to check back often and print list, just before you hit the road!
UPDATE 5/15/11
A change has been made on Wednesday, June 8th's MoPowered Tour stop
CONFIRMED; Ken at the Finer Details stop is opening his doors for
THE EVENING, AFTER 5PM
An open-house style barbecue and beverages will happen
at 121 Commerce Drive, Danville, IN 46122.
"The Grille lights at 5PM!"
This has been corrected on the
"CONFIRMED TOUR STOPS, SCHEDULE AND DATES", listed above.
Robert Wolf MCG, "See the van, sign the Van"! The MCG Rat-Rod van will be at this location.
No word yet from Randy Bolig on joining forces with Mopar Muscle.
5/16/11
Whoa, hold the brakes!
Nothing really to say here except; After reviewing some old pics
of past tours, re-living life on the road with
The Totally Auto Posse',
I came across this pic, lol
NEWS FLASH Past "MoPowered Tour Lead Vehicle" is FOR SALE!
2009 DODGE CHALLENGER SRT-8
Low miles! ORIGINAL OWNER "SPRING SPECIAL"
MAGAZINE FEATURE CAR
MoPower Tour LEAD VEHICLE, "Pace Car"
EVERY FACTORY OPTION PLUS A FEW MORE!
Corsa Exhaust, K&N, woodgrain and lots of goodies!
Gotta' make room for the build of the 2012 LEAD VEHICLE
totallyauto@aol.com Dave
-MORE-
Sounds like the LONG HAULER Ceremony finally has a home
Location has been announced for
Saturday, June 11 at the
GM Proving Grounds
LMAO, I remember a tour where we did,
"Mopars With the Amish"
but……..
LOL, "Mopars at the GM Proving Grounds"????
Go figure.
5/17/11
Hot Rod has posted on their site,
hotrod.com/powertour
that the Sunday, June 5th trip to Kennedy Space Center is confirmed.
As is, the "drive behind the fence"!
There seems to be a 25.00 charge and you can
buy tickets on Hot Rods site. WE DID!
Speaking of that, have you signed up for the "Official Tour" yet?
If not, please do so now and support Hot Rod for putting on this awesome road trip!
On that subject, please remember that,
Other than our love of the cars and passion for performance,
we are not affiliated with the "Official Tour" or Hot Rod
We are simply a Tour within their Tour.
Just our way of making "America's greatest road trip"
just a little more special for our Mopar Brothers.
The staff and sponsors of the Hot Rod Power Tour should be commended
for the incredible amount of work and effort they put forth
to make this happen each year.
Please remember to support those who support and/or sponsor the Tour.
THANKS GUYS n GALS!
REMINDER FOR those making the LONG HAUL
Those starting in Cocoa Beach, FL. Registration is open on
Friday June 4 from 2pm to 6pm, and on Saturday June 5 from 9am to 6pm,
and Noon to 6pm at each successive venue.
2-WEEKS TO GO-TIME!!!!!!
UPDATE 5/18/11
REMINDER;
Have you signed up at mopoweredtour@yahoo.com?
Be sure to do so to receive text updates as the Tour goes on.
We will be texting times for morning meeting places the evening before.
We may also send updates, party changes, directions, detours and other pertinent info
so please be sure to sign up, even if only doing a stop or two.
Don't forget to include a text capable cell number for us to reach you at.
Ryan will be holding the phone so please respect that the number you get texts from is neither
Totally Auto or Mopar Collector's Guide Magazine
Should you need to reach the shop or magazine staff, those numbers are as follows;
Totally Auto Inc. 215 322 2277
MCG 225 274 0609
Thanks for your consideration!
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