next stop Knoxville Tennessee

[vwinnovator]

heading down to Tennessee next month and looking for interesting stop along the way (and vw's as well)

route from MD to Tenn.

what out there?

[mark tucker]

one of my kids is a chiropractor just west of knoxville in kingston.as is her husband.so if you need one...there they are. I keep wanting to go see the kit car place there but always run out of time.

[vwinnovator]

trips coming up..

Anything? places?

[mark tucker]

look up on the inter weebs for where your going to see what intrest you. Ill be going up thatta way in about 2 weeks.knox&nashville to see the kid&grand kids and elvis.. ...shit rong town.. the wifes in so cal this week seeing a batch of grand kids.

[Bug-nut]

Hmmm... let's see... I live here in Knoxville but unfortunately I can't say we have lots of cool places to check out, especially ones car related. If you drive on down to Chattanooga there are some better options, one being the Coker Tire Museum. As for food in Knoxville, the best place hands down (for me at least) is the Hot Rods 50's Diner in Alcoa (not really that far from Knoxville, just south about 8 miles). My wife and I love to go there, the atmosphere is awesome and the staff very friendly and helpful. Also did I mention the food is terrific? They have over 70 different kind of hamburgers to choose from!

http://www.hotrods50sdiner.com

In Oak Ridge, TN, (about 20 miles west of Knoxville) they have a cool museum called AMSE, for American Museum of Science and Energy. It mostly has to do with the importance and details of Oak Ridge and the Manhattan project during WWII, it's pretty fun if you enjoy history and stuff like that.

Then of course you have the horrid tourist trap that is Seviereville and Gatlinburg, I can't recommend you go there because of the horrendous traffic and the multitude of cheap tourist shops but if that sounds like fun to you be my guest, perhaps you'll see something interesting there that I missed. However if you like nature and/or hiking you could go to the Smoky Mountain National Park that's up there, but be warned the traffic will probably be pretty high because of everyone going to see the fall leaves and stuff. You also have Cade's Cove loop that you could drive, but once again the heavy traffic warning applies there too...

Wish I had more places to recommend, but from a car enthusiasts standpoint there really isn't much here in Knoxville.
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[danfromsyr]

on the east side of the Mtns is Maggie Valley.. a quaint little area but with a great motorcycle museum.. Wheels thru time.
https://goo.gl/maps/rkFBdYWVHNF2

there is of course VW factory in Chattenooga
https://goo.gl/maps/mCHaKp7aNiP2
factory tours http://www.volkswagengroupamerica.com/tours.html
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[mark tucker]

Ive been to the oak ridge mustseem thingy.my daughters father in law works at the oakridge facility. the mustseem is small, but informative. great area. maggie vallys nice too,havent been through there in many years.smokey park is awesome, marryville is ok.. we havent done the hotrod crafe., did floyds hotrod mustseem many years back, i think it's gone now it was awesome. I dont know if SAS does tours or any thing& not sure exzactly where they are.

[vwinnovator]

thanks ppl...

definitely hitting up smokey park