I flew first class to Nashville.
Barely any room for all my luggage!
iPod, Sprint Navigation, and universal USB charger
Air conditioned seats ROCK!
Had to RTFM to figure out the buttons.
110mph + barefoot =
For whatever reason, Greg was under the impression that those two french fries were the size of a Dagwood sandwich.
"Hello, Matthew. My name is Chris Hansen."
Evan, his awesome camera gear, and his awesome DSG Golf.
Andy's 240 vert looks great with the top down. At night, its a table.
James' SI
Skilled at making beer disappear
Tyler, who is 'nvrplzd'
Joe the diesel guy Wes and the return of the pink shirt
Booked a 4-star Mariott downtown through Priceline for $75 a night. Service was OUTSTANDING.
Thank you, Bill!
Appropriately, this place was located right next to our room.
The Lane Motor Museum stores cars in WORKING CONDITION. Amazing!More pics of the museum:
http://www.q45.org/gallery/v/NashNICO2007/ A museum and gift shop devoted entirely to The Dukes of Hazzard.More pics:
http://www.q45.org/gallery/v/N...age=3More pics:
http://www.q45.org/gallery/v/N...age=4
Back at the Wingate where most folks stayed.
Went back to my hotel downtown.
Parking was pretty expensive, but service was polite and fast. $20 a night, then I tipped $5 at each in/out. Ended up being about $150 for the weekend.
Beautiful Nashville
Caravan downtown
Wow, Jimmy made quite the drive from Michigan.
The friendly NSR people from Ohio. Hopefully in Atlanta I'll get to see Jerry's Datsun pickup.
Wes was confined to the kids' table.
THATS NOT RIGHT!
Nick. A man of ideas.
THE WORST PLACE ON EARTH. So much farking rice. Some idiot in a Grand Am showed up, left his obnoxious music on, and pretty much put the nail in the coffin. It was time to leave.
LS1 S14. I LOVE. SO MUCH.
Cop came and made an offer for Matt's wheels. Very nice wheels.
All the nice legs in the world couldn't make up for all the gay rice.
DAMN THATS HOT.
I like.
More rice from that evening:
http://www.q45.org/gallery/v/N...age=5
Back at the Wingate.
The gate was locked. I had to climb over as Greg did in this photo. My leg cramped up on the way in, forcing me to straddle the fence until the cramping stopped. On the way out, I smashed a nut. I didn't want kids anyway!
Classy!
Next day, big meet outside the stadium. I called down for my car.
Valet attendant driving up with my vehicle. There is NOTHING as cool as calling down and saying "I'm coming to pick up my Cadillac now." Thats probably why I came and left so many times.
I love Zs.
Beautiful Impul wheels.
Gay.
From afar I thought I saw a Chrysler logo on this Maxima!
Except for the wheels, this Continental was stunning.
Wes's Q, still looking good.
It was really hot, really humid, and I was tired, so I got in the Cadillac and turned on the AC seats and cooled off while I took a nap for what seemed like an hour.
CHICKEN AND A 40!
Ever watch Muscle Car on Spike TV? Yeah, its that guy!
More pics from that day's big meet:
http://www.q45.org/gallery/v/N...age=6
I went back to the hotel and fell asleep for hours, and Fat Moe's was unfortunately closed. Nothing on the room service menu appealed to me, and I wanted to drive the Caddy so I went for a food cruise. I ended up getting a ticket for 45 in a 30 just a few feet from the hotel.I made sure to pull over ASAP, turn off the engine and radio, and turn on the overhead lights. The police officer was very friendly and gave me a ticket for online traffic school.
The room was clean and service was excellent.
Heading home...
FINALLY, a car with high speed cruise control! I never did get enough space to find the top speed.
BACONATOR!
I found myself very low on gas, so I pulled off in rural Illinois. I got lost and ended up in my hometown of Belleville, Illinois, which looks like this:
BEST ROAD TRIP EVER. I'll be returning to Nashville soon.