One week from today is the Detroitish 
Woodward Dream Cruise. Events have been building up in the area for the last week or so. Car shows and events all around the area today, tomorrow, all next week, Saturday is the event and Sunday is a Mustang and Ford show at Ford HQ in Dearborn. I'll be out and about in my red 1969 Cougar convertible. I'm wondering who I might see other than the locals (Adrian, Paul-Team Illuminata, Gearheadotaku, Brian-PMRacing). I don't know a lot of folks here but I know there are plenty of other Detroit area folks-Tom Spangler, Eric-Alfadriver, etc.
Todd
I own nothing cool, but I'm gonna try to borrow something.
sorry I forgot to mention you Angry.
Going up with Ade on Thursday or Friday night, then I'll be back on Saturday with some other friends. The 944 is in "Eternal Project" mode, so I'll be driving the SHO. But I never really "cruise" per se, I find a place to park and walk around.
Might go out with my FIL early in the week. Not sure if I'll be out on the day.
I usually hang out at Woodward and square lake Friday night. Should be in my '91 Firebird.
Saturday is just too much of a hassle. I go up to Flint for back to the bricks.
We will probably be there, I talked SWMBO into going as a shakedown on the hearse before we take it out west, now I just have to get enough done on it to warrant a shakedown run.
We usually setup camp at the Staples at square lake and cruise up to Pontiac and down to wherever the traffic starts backing up then turn around. I much prefer to see the cars when they aren't idling around at 5 mph.
I have been out there several times already as things are picking up. I headed out to the M1 Concourse/Woodward drags last night but when I got there around 7:00, sadly it was raining. Anyway I will be going once maybe twice during the upcoming week, depending on the weather and of course on Saturday itself. It's all about the weather.
I'll be out there with our car club. 91 NA Miata VVT + Rotrex and at night I'll be with my buddy FP Green Evo X. Shoot me a PM if you want to meet up
I won't be there. Never really appealed to me to sit and watch cars creep by.
That, and the drive from A2 up to anywhere to see it....
Stickered up and on the way!
Well what do you know?
It was an absolute E36 M3-show. Fights, burnouts that ended up running into crowds, people falling out of trucks.
Just strengthens my commitment to stay out of the street shenanigans and instead just hang with the track-only crowd.
goingnowherefast said:
Well what do you know?
It was an absolute E36 M3-show. Fights, burnouts that ended up running into crowds, people falling out of trucks.
Just strengthens my commitment to stay out of the street shenanigans and instead just hang with the track-only crowd.
Dafuq? I've been going for about 12 years and have never witnessed any of that.
goingnowherefast said:
Well what do you know?
It was an absolute E36 M3-show. Fights, burnouts that ended up running into crowds, people falling out of trucks.
Just strengthens my commitment to stay out of the street shenanigans and instead just hang with the track-only crowd.
thats why I decided to have a few beers along the sidelines in pontiac and watch a bunch of cars paint the road black.
There are still burnout marks from last year that were visible the day before dreamcruise! but now they are covered up by more burnout marks.
but I agree it felt extra rowdy this year...
goingnowherefast said:
Well what do you know?
It was an absolute E36 M3-show. Fights, burnouts that ended up running into crowds, people falling out of trucks.
Just strengthens my commitment to stay out of the street shenanigans and instead just hang with the track-only crowd.
I have to wonder... was it really worse this year? ...or is it just that every idiot with a cell phone records everything and shares it immediately to social media so everybody is aware of it now?
It's estimated that 1.5 MILLION people come out, and over 40,000 vehicles are out and about in some way shape or form related to the cruise. There's bound to be some shenanigans. It would also seem that the vast majority have a great time and enjoy the scenery and cars.
I didn't see anything negative at all. Friday night I was in Berkley hanging with family and then the police waiting for a tow truck and nothing on Saturday either.
I used to go every year, but I got sick of being in my mini, and being surrounded my minivans and SUVs for the 6 hours it gook to go 1 mile on woodward. Back to the bricks is better to me.
Went and watched, first experience with the Dream Cruise. I live pretty close to 11 mile, so it's an easy walk. Ended up walking up past 13 mile to see the Chevy performance setup, and then walked back home. Got in just before the rain started pounding - and didn't see any shenanigans beyond a few burnouts. The strip that we walked was crazy with police on motorcycles and even horses. Cool experience all around to me, but I was just walking.
My daughter lives in the Boston Edison district near Woodward and Chicago BLVD, some year I'll visit in conjunction with the cruise.
pirate
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8/20/18 4:09 p.m.
goingnowherefast said:
Well what do you know?
It was an absolute E36 M3-show. Fights, burnouts that ended up running into crowds, people falling out of trucks.
Just strengthens my commitment to stay out of the street shenanigans and instead just hang with the track-only crowd.
Well given that in every large group of people you are going to find a small percentage of crazies, idiots, drunks and morons the rest are going to be good folks out to have a good time. It’s not hard to believe that when you stack a million people in an area there are not going to be some incidents. If you didn’t like it don’t go back but I suspect “track crowd only” probably has that same percentage of undesirable people who in some way spoil it for others that you didn’t see or chose to ignore.
xflowgolf said:
I have to wonder... was it really worse this year? ...or is it just that every idiot with a cell phone records everything and shares it immediately to social media so everybody is aware of it now?
Well it's not like we haven't had cell phones and social media the last few years. But yeah, anecdotally I saw a lot more shenanigans this year than any previous year. You can find the fight videos, and the old Cuda (I think) crashing into the crowd on youtube or woodwards facebook page.
pirate said:
Well given that in every large group of people you are going to find a small percentage of crazies, idiots, drunks and morons the rest are going to be good folks out to have a good time. It’s not hard to believe that when you stack a million people in an area there are not going to be some incidents. If you didn’t like it don’t go back but I suspect “track crowd only” probably has that same percentage of undesirable people who in some way spoil it for others that you didn’t see or chose to ignore.
Yeah I'd reckon a place that requires you to pay a lot of money and prohibits any and all alcohol and drug use will have less stupid stuff than a place that welcomes both of those and is 100% free to join. Do you disagree?
goingnowherefast said:
Well it's not like we haven't had cell phones and social media the last few years. But yeah, anecdotally I saw a lot more shenanigans this year than any previous year. You can find the fight videos, and the old Cuda (I think) crashing into the crowd on youtube or woodwards facebook page.
I didn't find it any more rowdy than past years, though traffic seemed worse up north (we never made it down to Birmingham because of the backups) so I'd guess there were more cars this year, possibly due to the nice forecast.
I checked youtube for "woodward dream cruise 2018 fight" and got all of one video. It was a "fight" where someone stuck his head out his moonroof and called out some shiny happy person for yelling "no balls" after he didn't do a burnout. It was not a fight, and frankly I agree with the guy in the car, the guys sitting on the side of the road calling you a Bob Costas for not doing a burnout can berk right off. By mid afternoon I generally turn around before hitting the Pontiac loop because I'm sick of the drunken shiny happy people up there berating you.
I think I found the crash video you're talking about, not sure if anyone was actually hit but it's hardly what I'd call "crashing into a crowd". Anyone who sits that close to the road during the dream cruise without thinking about an escape route should probably think a little more about what is going on around them. We generally sit at square lake because the wall gives us an out incase the E36 M3 hits the fan. It's never been a problem because it's usually more chill there, not as many power brake burnouts but alot more guys romping on it as they leave the parking lot or hanging a u-turn to head back north, which I prefer anyway so it works out for us.
In reply to goingnowherefast :
I've stopped going, the 3.5 hour trip from Columbus means we spend Fri. night in a hotel in Toledo($$$) and get up early to get a spot near Woodward. Mustang Alley has become so meh..a bunch of "checkbook" Saleens, Roushs, etc., hardly any pre-Fox body Mustangs. Went to the Gathering of the Geezers at Kil-Kare Dragstrip to see some real drag racing and a smaller car show.
Dead_Sled said:
I checked youtube for "woodward dream cruise 2018 fight" and got all of one video. It was a "fight" where someone stuck his head out his moonroof and called out some shiny happy person for yelling "no balls" after he didn't do a burnout. It was not a fight, and frankly I agree with the guy in the car, the guys sitting on the side of the road calling you a Bob Costas for not doing a burnout can berk right off.
As someone who got a ticket about 5 years ago in Royal Oak for doing a (very short) burnout, I agree. Cop on a bicycle nabbed me. That was embarrassing....
