While I can't bring you the smell of the petrol fumes and the reeving of the engines both old and new this is a somewhat small showing of the Woodward Dream Cruise. You might not necessarily be into old cars - and don't get me wrong I know very little about them myself, but I boy can I appreciate a old pretty car and have somewhat longings to own one someday. I've always been exposed to old cars with my uncle doing 1930s cars up and my former neighbour in the UK owning three old cars himself and working on them. I always find older cars to have more style compared to their modern counterparts.
So on Saturday me and the boy took ourselves to sitting by the roadside along Woodward Avenue watching the 18th Dream Cruise. You might wonder what the Dream Cruise actually is - but it's the worlds largest one day celebration of classic old cars. It's part rally, part cruising, part pretty cars parked up along the 16 miles between Ponatic and into Detroit here in Michigan. And why in Metro Detroit? Because here in Detroit we're home to the birth of the automotive - we're the Motor City.
They don't close the road down so you'll find the typical road user [most normal/sane drivers find alternative routes] trying to rev up their engine against original Model-T's, Packards, muscle cars, hot rods to the newest Ford releases. People travel from all around the country, even stated the world just to attend this event and it's certainly more hands on then the British affair of just parking old cars up in a field. It was just a delight watching them drive by.
So on Saturday me and the boy took ourselves to sitting by the roadside along Woodward Avenue watching the 18th Dream Cruise. You might wonder what the Dream Cruise actually is - but it's the worlds largest one day celebration of classic old cars. It's part rally, part cruising, part pretty cars parked up along the 16 miles between Ponatic and into Detroit here in Michigan. And why in Metro Detroit? Because here in Detroit we're home to the birth of the automotive - we're the Motor City.
They don't close the road down so you'll find the typical road user [most normal/sane drivers find alternative routes] trying to rev up their engine against original Model-T's, Packards, muscle cars, hot rods to the newest Ford releases. People travel from all around the country, even stated the world just to attend this event and it's certainly more hands on then the British affair of just parking old cars up in a field. It was just a delight watching them drive by.
On the night we headed down to Ferndale for drinks which was running as the end of the Dream Cruise - Ford had a big display of their latest models with a funfair and music. Pretty fun way to experience my first dream cruise. Especially when we headed home with a load of walnut and chocolate shortcake fudge.
Hope you all had exciting weekends!
Hope you all had exciting weekends!