For all the car enthusiasts...Grill '57's Cruise-In car show is today (Sat., August 15). They'll start cruising in at about 1pm and most will be in place by 3pm, but it runs up into the early evening hours. I think this is the second to the last one for the year with one more scheduled in September.
Gosh I wish I had known earlier when I was over on that side of town. Well there is always september.
I thought you were talking about the Woodward Dream Cruise. They already blocked off Woodward Avenue all day yesterday. I was staying in Canada most of last week and hotels were so precious the Canadian hotel in Windsor was full of folks up for it. Guy from Missouri brought a beautiful old GTO (if I was a car geek I would know the model) and had it parked in the hotel parking lot on a trailer.
Lots of cool cars, though I've seen more of a turn-out there before. It may be we were a bit early. The car most represented was the new Camaros. I'll bet there 10 of those things out there at one time. A few Mustangs new and old. A couple of Shelby Cobra 427s, 70-ish Shelby GT-500, one Ferrari, several Corvettes new and old with a fairly new Z06, newer GTOs, one old GTO, several Chevelles, old Camaros, couple of old Cadillacs, etc.
my favorite cadilac is the 1959. I have been such a fan of the fin and the double bullet. If memory serves me only the 1959 60 special was the only model with out the double bullet.
i was up there today. I was so envious of this old dude and his wife that pulled up in a new yellow lamborgini gallardo....
I wish I could have seen the Lamborghini up close. Reminds me of the time I was driving in Clayton. I was going up the ramp onto 70 there at Lombard Street headed east in my truck. I catch something hovering close to the ground in my peripheral vision. I look down and there beside me is a black Lamborghini Murcielago, which is the 12 cylinder, jackknife-style doors, high-end model. Actually I saw that car twice in or near Clayton and then once over on I-40 near Jones Sausage. I figured somebody in the area must be living large. My son desires to see in person the Bugatti Veyron 16.4, which is unlikely to happen. It makes Ferraris and Lamborghinis seem like commuter cars at nearly $2 million each.
Their website shows that the next one (and the last for the season) is September 19th. I'm sure some of the cars stay most of the day, but since its a cruise-in, there are constantly different cars leaving and coming in: New sports coupes, sports cars, muscle cars, antiques, classics, convertibles, roadsters, exotics, etc. I've been before when there were cars surrounding Grill '57, out on the front lawn, over in the eye care centers parking lot and lawn and filling out the parking lot between the restaurant and Staples. I'm sorry I didn't think about posting it earlier. We were there merely as observers, so it was not planned too far out.
