Check Your Gauges 2011

This year's Power Tour started out with a small issue, no big shocker there. We got on the road at 2:00am. Snowball was very happy, all the way to South Carolina, where Z realized the temperature was around 230. Perhaps it had been there for a while, I'm not really sure since I didn't look at the gauges at all, and I had been driving. We picked our brains to try and figure out the issue; Z was thinking about the pulleys he had put on to slow down the accessories and increase horsepower, he thought about turning on the heat, also about what else it could be. I thought about how little I actually know about motors. Then he figured out that it was 96 degrees outside and poor Snowball had a right to be too hot. We slowed down a little and made sure plenty of air got to the motor, and Snowball was a happy car.
We made it to our hotel around 7:00pm. Showers and dinner, then we drive around a little bit and checked out some of the other cars. BTW, IHOP has really yummy potato soup.
This morning, Saturday, was the first official day of the Power Tour. We headed over to Cape Canaveral and checked in. We also signed up for a drive around tour through the Kennedy Space Center. Sounds like that will be really fun, the shuttle is on deck (or whatever the term is), and we will get a tour of the restricted access areas. Well, some of them.
We headed back to the hotel to wait for the rest of our party to arrive: Z's parents and friends L&D. Then we headed back over, where we stayed for a few hours. The good news is: I no longer have a farmers tan! The bad news is: I'm now a bit crispy.
We saw a lot of great cars! I'm on a Challenger kick right now, so I paid a lot of attention to those. One of my downfalls taking car pictures is I only take what I like, and I don't really care for cars that were made before 1970. I have a hard time even appreciating them. I'm just letting you know ahead of time that you probably will not be seeing a lot of older cars from me. A lot of Camaros, Mustangs and Challengers, but very few others.
After the Kennedy Space Center tour, we'll be heading up to Valdosta GA. Sounds like a 4.5 hour trip, eeks!
I'm going to see if I can convince Z to post something, that will make sense to the car folks out there. Pictures to follow via Facebook.
TTFN!