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Welcome to the Northeast Rod Run website. This site was started so it would be easier to bring fellow car enthusiasts together, and give them some information on the Northeast Rod Run's yearly roadtrip.
The idea for the Northeast Rod Run was created because of other past "Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour" participants not liking the wait between Hot Rod Magazine's trips to the Northeastern U.S. The thought is that this small yearly road trip, with fill the void left behind until Hot Rod can make it back out this way.
With these trips we will always try to keep three constants.
The first one being that it will always begin over the first weekend of October. This way there will be some great scenery because that is foliage season in the Northeast, and the cars don't have to worry about running in the hot temperatures, as they would if this took place in mid-summer. The second constant is that we will always try to be on scenic and rural highways (mainly traveling on National Scenic Byways when possible), and not just driving down the interstates with the masses, as some other cruises do. The third and final constant is that we will always try to make it a three day trip, with each day trying to be around the 200 mile or five hour range.
The first trip was in October of 2008 and it was very well received. On our maiden voyage we had a great group of people and cars from places like NY, MA, NH, and RI, as we cruised from Mt Wachusett in Princeton, Massachusetts, through New England, up to Bar Harbor, Maine. In 2009 our participant numbers doubled as we made it up through Vermont, to the Canadian border before heading back down into the Lake Placid, NY area.
If this sounds like your type of thing, then check out the website, signup for the forum, and get involved.
Thanks for checking it out, and hope to see you on a future trip, wherever that may be.
TJ Ragucci |