HRPT - Day 3 - Austin, Texas

We woke to a beautiful morning in Baytown and got ready to head to Austin, Texas.  We met the occupants of seven other cars in the parking lot and planned to travel together for the next leg.  We all stopped and had breakfast together and made some nice, new friends.  Unfortunately, some of them had newer, high performance cars and wanted to travel at 85mph and we only wanted to go about 60-65 mph so they actually got ahead of us midway through the trip but we saw them several times throughout the rest of the week and visited again then.

There was a different car show every night at the hotels we were staying at - so cool to see different cars every night since there is no way to see them all at the venues!

Clear Lake, Baytown, Texas

Our stop for breakfast and it was really good!

Again the Lord provided cloud cover for a cool ride...:)



Rows and rows of cropland in south Texas and a cropduster hard at work.

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This 1972 green Cutlass was one of the cars we were traveling with in the morning and they got ahead of us.  Unfortunately we caught up with them and had to tow them off the road onto the shoulder.  They were having problems overheating.

Long lines of traffic backed up in small towns, construction and getting in and out of the venues.

Rolling into the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas



Panoramic view of one of the four lots full of cars at COTA. I was in air conditioned comfort drinking Bloody Marys because the heat knocked me down hard this day.  We had walked 1 1/2 hours on this pavement and I was done.

A lot of the sponsors stayed at our hotel this night and I took some pictures of their cars in the parking lot.  One of the guys who announced from the stage every day, Mike Finnegan, was driving the Roadkill truck and he pulled into the parking garage next to us late that evening while we were down there working on the El Camino and we rode up with him.  That guy put in some hard hours every day.  All day announcing from the stage then driving a truck with no A/C (and we knew how hard THAT was!) to the next venue every morning.

Hot Wheels car!

ROADKILL!!