For those of us that are not familiar with the Mopar and Brice Road it is probably one of the more interesting gatherings in Columbus. Every year thousands of Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth fans from allover the USA, show up for the annual Mopar Nationals at National Trail Raceway. This event brings everyone from Joe Dirt to Jay Leno out for this fun filled drag racing, car show and swap meet event. After all of the excitement at the track during the day, the most fun happens at night all along Brice Road. Imagine this...Brice Road turn into a parking lot with people in lawn chairs lined up on both sides of the street for about ½ mile, tires burning rubber, police everywhere, people cheering, and cops getting booed. The best is at the hotels, especially the hotel located right behind Lindsay Acura. Let me set the stage as you cruise in your family car and all of sudden your stuck in a line of traffic slowly creeping towards a crowd of people gathered around a bonfire. You see masses of people with their video cameras walking allover towards the glow of...Oh no! You slowly turn the corner and realize your next in line to drive through the fire! All you see is smoke bellowing and red glow from the car that was in front of you. The smoke dissipates and suddenly your wife looks at you and the light bulbs go off as you see a ball capped out of towner making a circling motion with his hands while looking at your wheels. Thoughts and questions fly through your head...Will this ruin my transmission? Darn, I just replaced these tire, but then a sigh of relief as you look down and relize your driving an Acura, and that “If it ain't got no Hemi or Mopar, you better get out!”
My encouragement is if you have never seen or even believe what I am telling you, just experience for yourself and enjoy this cultural experience that may be different than going to a ballet or an art festival, who knows you might even refer to it as the Annual Mopar Festival!
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