Okay, as the guy that was there with Tim, I’ll tell what happened.
Tim left my house Sunday morning, Sunday evening, his transmission blew in the hotel parking lot. I wasn’t leaving due to my own tire issues until Monday, so I cannonballed down, got Tim, he came back, got his truck and trailer from my house, went and loaded up the dart. Tuesday morning, he followed me and the Jeep from Bowling Green to Nashville Speedway. When we got there, Tim who had the Gold pass for him, followed the directions to go to Gold parking.
I went to Spectator parking. I was cheap and didn’t buy a pass

. I get a phone call from Tim, guy is cussing him out and told him he had to leave. Said he wasn’t allowed to have a trailered vehicle. Despite the fact there were scores of trailered vehicles. So we hung out for a bit, Tim gave me and my son their gold passes and they headed home. We then stamped his passes and got his goodies at the end of the tour on Friday. Tim picked them up from me on his way to Carlisle the next month.
I spoke with the lady in charge of the tour at Indianapolis on Friday for about an hour on the subject. Basically, the guy at Nashville was 100 percent in the wrong. He was actually a hired hand by Nashville speedway and not part of Hot Rod. What was and still is the policy is that trailered vehicles are only allowed in spectator parking. The crew at Nashville didn’t get the memo until halfway thru the day after they’d allowed trailered vehicles into the Gold area. She had me tell Tim to email the company about a credit or refund. Then gave me all of his stuff.
That said, you can easily do the tour like I did and not give Hot Rod a single dime and still have all the same fun, plus one old lady and her husband gave my son their long hauler plaque in the Indy parking lot that they’d won at the left over goodie raffle at the end of the day at Indy.
I plan to do at least part of the Tour this year again, mainly cause I have an offer from QA1 to be in their tent with my dart if it’s done by May.(unlikely)
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