2023 Hot Rod Power Tour: Day 3

Monster potholes along dirt backroads couldn’t stop Junkyard Life from Rockingham, North Carolina - the next stop, Day 3, on the 2023 Hot Rod Power Tour. A side stop to Bunky’s Meat Market then a jaunt to Darlington. Our 1985 Chevy Monte Carlo SS didn’t fail us even though the potholes claimed our battery tie down. Thousands of unique vehicles, including an AMC Matador, and 1962 AMC Ambassador, provided great conversations and Power Tour Pro Tips. A trip to the auto cross earned us helmet time and a ride along in a new Camaro ZL1. The 24 second trip around the course was enough to flip my stomach. It was a blast!

Jody Potter

– Junkyard Life: The Story Beneath the Rust

(Apologies for some audio wind noise, it gets better with each day)

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2023 Hot Rod Power Tour: Day 2, junkyard jaunt

Junkyard Life tackles day 2 of the 2023 Hot Rod Power Tour. An early morning stop at Temple Auto Parts in Batesburg, South Carolina had us sidestepping rattlesnakes, and watching out for wild foxes. This junkyard tour revealed more than 4,500 vehicles from the 1940s and up. About 80 percent of the yard is older, classic era cars and trucks, according to owner Russell Temple.

Back on the Power Tour route and venue, in Columbia, South Carolina, we covered miles of ground looking at thousands of hot rods from all over the country and made time for fantastic parking lot sandwich meat. Yum!

We closed the day with a hotel parking lot tour after watching some impromptu burnouts from our room.

James, first-time Hot Rod Power Tour participant, from West Virginia told us about his scary encounter with a deer. A deer crossed the path of his 1999 Corvette that was traveling at a highway speed. The Corvette’s windshield was destroyed. The deer collided with the passenger side A-pillar. His passenger was hit by the hind end of the deer. And... pulled a tick off his shoulder. A quick trip to the doc, for the body blow from the deer, passenger was ok. A new windshield was ordered and to be delivered in the parking lot the next day. The tour marches on!

Full videos on Temple’s Auto links below.

TEMPLE'S AUTO 3-PART JUNKYARD TOUR:

• PART 1
• PART 2
• PART 3
  
  

Jody Potter
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2023 Hot Rod Power Tour: Day 1

Junkyard Life sets out on a five city tour, known as the 2023 Hot Rod Power Tour. Jody Potter and Jeff Beasley load up the 1985 Monte Carlo SS and meet the crew at Jack’s in Pell City before launching into a weeklong adventure on the back roads of America. First stop, Atlanta Motor Speedway. Keep watching for more Junkyard Life. Stay tuned for Day 2!

Jody Potter
– Junkyard Life: The Story Beneath the Rust


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WATCH: 1965 VW Kombi bus takes a turn for the worse; Split-window crash, fail!

We did terrible things to the 1965 VW Kombi bus that we rescued from the Alabama woods. Maybe we should have left it alone? Almost five years have past and we needed to find the Kombi a new owner before we trashed it any further.

For Sale
A buyer from California answered the ad on Facebook Marketplace. Cliff, from Lancaster, California, needed a few parts and glass for his own project VW bus. The remainder of the Alabama Kombi will be made into yard art for Cliff's neighbors to admire.

Now comes the hard part!
Loading the VW bus into the furniture hauling truck. Sounds easy? No at all! Things did not go as planned. The bus fell. Watch the despair unfold.

Jody Potter
– Junkyard Life: The Story Beneath the Rust


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The VW bus was cut into pieces and loaded onto a truck after it crashed to the ground during a failed attempt at lifting the body up into the air.

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