Gallery Inside: HOT ROD Power Tour Roared with Pro Street Showcase
Mickey Thompson Tires and HOT ROD teamed up to bring Pro Street Alley to the opening day of this year’s Power Tour.
This year’s Chevrolet Performance HOT ROD Power Tour Driven by Hagerty was certainly one for the history book, from record turnouts to unique cars. New for 2025 was a special showcase for Pro Street cars, and Mickey Thompson Tires backed it. Officially known as the Mickey Thompson Tires Pro Street Alley, it attracted nearly 40 cars that were proudly displayed alongside the Manufacturers Midway at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park on the opening day of the world’s largest traveling car show.
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The 2025 HOT ROD Power Tour featured a new Pro Street Alley, with nearly 40 cars at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. Inspired by last year's event, it showcased big-tire Pro Street cars, celebrating ’80s and ’90s car culture. Check out the photo gallery!
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The idea came about when Mike Cotten and his friends joined us for last year’s HOT ROD Power Tour West event, which zig-zagged through California and Arizona. The group stole the show, and we even used Tony Neztel’s 1961 Plymouth Belvedere on the cover of our Dare to Be Different issue (Spring 2025). If a few Pro Streeters were fun, then a lot more would be way better, and the idea of Pro Street Alley for this year’s Power Tour came to life. Cotten, Neztel, and the rest of that wild bunch rolled into Indianapolis Raceway Park in style, along with a bunch of other big tire Pro Street cars that harkened back to ’80s and ’90s fairgrounds. Enjoy a gallery as we relived the ’90s and rolled through the Midwest with big tires and big fun.
I’ve been fortunate enough to blur the line between career and hobby/passions for over 25 years, and it has been a rather unusual pathway to my current role as the Network Director of HOT ROD. Naturally, cars have been a large part of my life since I was a young kid—complete with car posters on the wall and a chest full of toy cars. As time marched by it was R/C cars and trucks until finally, into the big leagues when I turned 16. By that time my life was heavily influenced by magazines like HOT ROD and Car Craft, and it was the 5.0 Mustang that piqued my interest thanks to a heavy dose of the local car scene that I experienced through my two older brothers. I was fortunate enough to grow up as the Fox Body Mustang scene began to flourish, however at no time did I ever imagine a media career in the automotive-enthusiast aftermarket. Life after college was spent behind the desk as a stock analyst, but every other waking moment was occupied by Mustang drag racing. It was a friendship that changed my life from the rat race to the drag race, I was given a chance to contribute to a fledging new title for a quickly growing racing organization, one that focused on my true passions—Mustangs and street-legal drag racing. The opportunity eventually turned into a full-time gig in the early 2000s, despite no formal journalism degree or photography courses. By 2003, I was offered the dream job of joining the staff of Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords, which was the bible for the late-model Mustang movement that was taking over the world. One thing led to another, and I ended up back at the drag racing sanctioning body in which I had started my career as the content and marketing director, a role I occupied for a decade. In 2022, I was offered a chance to step into the network director role for the largest automotive-enthusiast aftermarket brand, the revered and legendary HOT ROD.
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