Last night, we were treated to a dissertation from MC Bill about trading cars with his father (Packard Bill) on the HRPT last year. It was hilarious, and if we can work out the details, we'll post a video of it tomorrow.

The Old Guys were also reminded of an important lesson...read the directions! We spent much of the evening planning today's activities, only to find out the day started at 9:00 AM, and not noon, as we had planned.

So this morning, after we woofed down a continental breakfast consisting mostlyof donuts, we drove a couple miles to the IX Center for the first day of the Tour.

Since the Old Guys are known to be prompt, we arrived about 8:15 AM, and had to sit in line for 45 minutes. That gave us plenty of time pick up a couple T-shirts, and nitpick the other cars as they arrived.

We did our usual stroll around the vendors, picking up tons of free stuff (most of which we'll throw away), and looking at the cars.

Packard Bill, who's car is now for sale ($16K if you're interested), agreed to do a dyno run. Actually, he was shamed into it during cocktail hour yesterday! DynoMax had a contest where everyone guessed his HP and Torque, and since he's running a Vortec engine and overdrive trans, most of us guessed too low...EXCEPT Sonny, who predicted 249, and won! His actual rear-wheel HP was 254...impressive!

During the dyno run, we all stood around, hoping to catch a piece of the Packard when the engine blew up, but it didn't happen!

We had lunch, and since Cleveland is in the middle of a heat wave (upper 80's), we came back to the hotel at 2:00, just in time for Happy Hour (it's 5:00 somewhere, right?).

Tomorrow morning we head for Kalamazoo, and we'll have company...Sonny's brother. Those of you who know him from Daytona already know that he will lead the charge to Cocktail Hour!