100+ Road Rodder Highway Tour Photos

25 several years. Fifty percent a million miles. Looking back at the world’s greatest cross-state cruising application.

The tale has turn out to be the stuff of road rodding lore by now—how Street Rodder magazine and Jerry Dixey launched the Highway Tour software back in 1996, kicking off an annual multi-legged coastline-to-coast cruising program that ended up running for a quarter century and covering 500,000 miles.

Every single 12 months, the Avenue Rodder Street Tour has put together cross-state road excursions with the construct of a brand-new assertion-making warm rod, developed by effectively-acknowledged stores. The to start with Highway Tour automobile was a 1933 Ford coupe, the famed Blue Skunk. Of all the Road Tour autos more than the decades, 19 have been Fords and six have been Chevys, ranging in vintage from a 1927 Model T roadster pickup to a 1966 Ford Fairlane. The 25th automobile, designed for 2020, was a 1934 Ford coupe, influenced by that premier rod.

As the Street Tour ’34 Ford coupe was underneath construction at Precision Hot Rods and Fabrication, Jerry Dixey was plotting out the dates and routes for the seven different legs of the 2020 Road Tour. It was Avenue Rodder’s program to rejoice the 25th once-a-year grand finale Highway Tour with great drives and occasions stretching from the Northeast to the Southwest, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, the Mid-South, the Heartland, and the Pacific coastline. As a substitute, 2020 waved the purple flag, bringing our options to a halt.

As the yr winds down, we are seeking back again a tiny further, with this image gallery of Road Tours from the former five or six years—and with optimism that races, auto reveals, rod runs, and cruises will hearth up all over again, greater and greater than ever, in 2021.