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> Anyone go this year?
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Yepper! Cruised Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights.
Didn't get any pictures this year at all. My long-time illness
has so sapped my energy and endurance that I simply can't walk
around with a camera for more than 15 minutes.
Monday, my wife and I in my 2007 Tor-Red Charger HEMI R/T did 4
loops from about Birmingham just north of Maple Road to the
Shrine of the Little Flower at 12 Mile Road. This year during the
week was no different than in previous years - the cruisers just
didn't go from where the old Totem Pole and Wigwam were, at 10
Mile, nor to Square Lake Road where Ted's was. Now, on Wednesday,
we managed 3 loops, I think, but on Friday, we went south, turned
around at 12 1/2 mile and went north, turning east to go home at
Big Beaver north of Birmingham. Miles? 11.2. Time? 2 hours 15
minutes. Gas mileage with my 5.7L HEMI, what I though was an
amazing 8.9.
During the daylight in the week prior to the cruise-proper,
always the 3rd Saturday in August, there are SOME cruisers, but
mostly, you see people parking their cars at multiple places
along the "loop". In prior years when I felt better, I could
usually knock down 800, 1000, or more pictures of which about 1/3
got thrown away for the usual reasons.
I have only tried going on Saturday once, two years ago. That
year, I was asked to help out the guys who built the High and
Mighty II drag car. But, despite a driving rain at 9:00AM,
traffic was already heavy and there were NO parking spots I could
find within at least half a mile!
For the record, unlike the twits who drive silly-ass cars in the
cruise lane, i.e., the curb lane next to the spectators in front
of businesses, I cruised in the 2nd or 3rd lane but still have
one MAJOR blast with the windows down sucking up those great
sounds and smells, talking to some owners when stopped, the whole
thing. What a rush!
--
HP, aka Jerry
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