Renowned musician, gearhead and friend of YearOne Kenny Wayne Shepherd is on the cover of the March, 2008 issue of Popular Hot Rodding with his tasty Duster. This is notable for a couple of reasons - first, any time one of our buddies makes it on the cover of a mag it's a good thing, and second, Kenny just happened to drive the Duster on the 2007 Power Tour with us. That makes it doubly cool.

The Power Tour was the maiden cruise for the hot-rodded A-body, and other than a couple of minor new car bugs the car ran great the whole time. Well, Kenny may not have thought the AC packing up in the middle of the midwestern heat was minor, but hey, it didn't make him walk at all. In our minds, that makes it a success. The '07 Tour was Kenny's second with the YearOne gang, with him driving his '69 Charger Extreme Lee in 2006. Unfortunately, the Charger ate some valvetrain components about halfway through that trip, but that can happen when driving hot rods a few thousand miles.

Kenny says he's going to make the '08 Tour with us, and we hope so. If he does, you can bet he'll be driving something cool, and something Mopar. He says he likes 'em all, but all we've ever seen him drive had a Pentastar on it. No worries there, we dig 'em, too.

Congratulations on the cover, Kenny, and we'll see you in June for the '08 Power Tour. And for everyone reading this, be sure to pick up a copy of Popular Hot Rodding and read about Kenny's Duster in detail.