Power Tour mileage etc.

[elacruze]

Considering the state of affairs when we left, given a new motor with crap timing and losing the ability to tune the EFI about 1/3rd of the way in, I think we did ok on fuel-about what a lot of people guessed it would be. Considering the broad average includes idling in traffic and city driving around hotels etc, not too shabby. I had to do some dead reckoning with the mileage considering food, hotels, and side trips but it's close enough. I drove off twice without receipts, but remember close enough. I couldn't keep the speedo cable in the back of the speedo, so we don't have an accurate mileage; We ran speed off the GPS. I'd guess our average hiway speed was 68.

Total mileage; 1538
Total fuel, g; 121.33
Total fuel, $; ~490.00
Average $/g; 4.04

Lowest $/g; 3.67 Cullman, AL
Highest $/g; 4.359 New Hudson, MI

[thedodgeboys]

thats not shabby 

I averaged 22 for most of the 4000 miles driving about 75 MPH with all the freeway routs this year.

[HPP]

Cool.

So those of you who have done this, what would you say a total package for the week costs, gas, food, hotels, etc?

[elacruze]

Cool.

So those of you who have done this, what would you say a total package for the week costs, gas, food, hotels, etc?

Hotels were about $100/night, would have saved a little by reserving rooms sooner than we did. We still have to get home too, so figure 3 more hotel nights and $450 in gas...$30/day for food etc. each...

Gas-$950 (could be much less)
Hotels-$1000
Food-$300

I'd say that depending on your rig, $2000-$2500 is a safe number. If you drive something that gets 25mpg, reserve hotels early, and eat on the cheap you could probably do the round trip for $1500, maybe less if you're a real mizer.

I was very lucky with the route, we only live 110 miles south of Cocoa Beach, the starting point so we only have 1200 miles of return driving, may get that done in 2 days. I met some people who drove in from Texas, Wisconsin, New York, and Puerto Rico-their percentage of expense to get to the start and back home from the end will be considerably more than mine.

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

I think we are all in the same boat.  It was absolutely worth it though.

[thedodgeboys]

I agree it all depends on were you live on the extra miles you have to drive. next year is Detroit to Dallas so I would budget $2000. from Kansas eating smart.

[HPP]

Cool, thanks!

Yes, one of these years I need to do this. I've been reading about it since the 90s and always thought it would be cool, I've just never pulled the trigger on it. Of course, getting a car on the road would be a good start.