Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be in Texas, but his ride will be in Concord, N.C. So will Jeff Gordon's. And Jeff Green's And Ken Schrader's, too.

But we're not just talking about your everyday sedan.

We're talking about Earnhardt's 1967 Camaro, Gordon's Paul Yaffe original motorcycle, Green's 1,000-horsepower 1941 Willys and even Schrader's 1955 tow truck. That's just a sample. And of course everyone's heard of Tony Stewart's refurbished Cadillac hearse.

Sure, the drivers will be just outside of Fort Worth getting ready for this weekend's Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, but just a few miles from their respective shops in Concord, N.C., their personal souped-up rides will be sitting on display at Lowe's Motor Speedway during its annual Food Lion AutoFair.

"Outside of our Cup weekends, the Food Lion AutoFair has become the most profitable event we host at the speedway," said Jerry Gappens, senior vice president of events at Lowe's Motor Speedway. "Even with so many NASCAR fans in Texas, we draw a tremendous amount of car enthusiasts and race fans from up and down the East Coast, as well as a lot of the NASCAR team members who work at the area shops and don't travel week-to-week."

More than 150,000 people are expected to converge on the LMS infield and surrounding area during the auto show, widely considered the world's largest automotive extravaganza which runs Thursday through Sunday.

Gappens said the AutoFair will encompass more than 300 acres of property this weekend, with the majority being filled by 10,000 vendor spaces. Just 300 vendor spaces were filled at the first car show.

Aside from the three weekends that the sport's three premier series hold events at the track, few top Lowe's Motor Speedway in terms of finding a way to utilize a 2,000-acre plot of land -- even on the same weekend a sister International Speedway Corp. track hosts the Nextel Cup and Busch series. (Continued)