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Aug 17, 2008 12:44 |  #1

I found some interesting tidbits while I was reading Sunday's paper.

"Micky & Minnie were seen riding around in a red convertible." Missed them.

"Her husband used to race a Mustang so fast that the cops would meet him at his house to give him tickets." It wasn't just him! I know guys that that happened to! :D

So I'd like to give you some of my thoughts & observations from Saturday.

Everyone has their own, sometimes bad idea, of what's an interesting car.
The old, bright orange Fiat SVO L, for instance.
Hundreds of dune buggies, kids on bikes doing wheelies in traffic, & clapped out hulks on trailers sporting "For Sale" signs. One clever kid had "Will accept donations for restoration" on the side of an old Chevelle, I think.
How about a Twin Pines Farm Dairy delivery truck with milkmen in delivery uniforms & glass quarts of milk in wire baskets?
A bugeye Sprite with the owner wearing an old circa Stirling Moss '50s racing helmet. He didn't wear the white T-shirt, though.
A '65 Stang with a a whinny horn & a 3' hair ponytail hanging from the trunk.
Two Delorians in parade with their doors open. (Did they come with AC?)

"Jake & Elwood" were there in style!

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A passenger with an Obama head waving a McCain banner. (Got a LOT of cheers!)
Too many kids wearing "cute" monkey heads.
A pink '56 T-Bird, the driver a dressed in pink with a blond ponytail, & her pink poodle as passenger. Think "American Graffiti".

Boss Hog in his white Caddy with steer horns on the hood & too frequently blown Dixie horn.

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"Animal" riding shotgun in a yellow '50s pickup. Loved it as he matched the t-shirt I bought for my birthday!
A Pantera with crappy (I bent it) ripples all along the side. Sadly, some people have no shame.
A Waste Management mini garbage truck with open headers. Sounded good. Wish he'd picked up the Pantera driver...
...as well as the ugliest pink Hummer strech limo you can imagine.

We had tons of Saleens, E-types, some all-out race cars that didn't like to idle in traffic, and to "top it off", above us, we had an aircraft towing a banner for Roto Rooter. Someone should have hired them to clear the posers, dufi, & mommie's SUVs out of the Classics lanes.


Other misc. offerings were anything someone could imagine. Sometimes you only saw them through a brief break in the traffic, just long enough to think OMG! Wish I could have got an image of them.

I did get one of this flamer & missed some too far away to shoot before they were lost in the scrum.

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On the upside, we had great weather, thousands of great cars, 1,327 pairs of great legs (sorry, no images), 48,942 pairs that shouldn't have been in shorts, & a record crowd that had a lot of fun!

Can't wait 'till next year!

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Aug 17, 2008 13:55 |  #2

The weather was absolutely SPECTACULAR!!! Of course all the bright sunshine was a bit tough for me to really get any descent pics. Lame excuse I know... I just hung out in Mustang Alley... looking at all the nice Stangs and doing a bit of people watching. LOL!

For Mustangs enthusiast is was great the FORD had their corporate presence on 9 Mile! Way to go Ford! Ferndale was FORD country! Mustang Alley was really great this year too! Lots or participants and the volunteer crew did a great job with parking the cars!

I did manage a few pictures... need to go through them... I did manage one, that might qualify for the "What were they thinking thread"...

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I'll post more if I find any worthy of posting...

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Aug 17, 2008 14:13 |  #3

LOL, You asked for it now Frank. They gather around me like bee's on honey.
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Aug 17, 2008 15:35 |  #4

I don't know what the guy with the deer on top was thinking.or was he? And as far as the guy on the bike that was in my way for 20 minutes....did he loose his drivers license but still wanted to cruise?


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Aug 18, 2008 07:54 |  #5

I love the mixture of people and cars from Eight to I-696. Did the entire loop from south of the Fair Grounds, up around Pontiac and back to Eight Mile. At one point in Pontiac, the mixture ended. All black on the east side, and there was some hillbilly biker bar on the west with Confederate flags on cars; rednecks all over. Wow. I was ready for PBR bottles to start flying.


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Aug 18, 2008 18:45 as a reply to  @ mlav's post |  #6

Here was very cool 4-eyed foxbody... paint was mystic, changing between purple and blue (you can see the blue squares)... I liked it anyways... LOL!

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Aug 18, 2008 19:54 |  #7

Good stuff. Keep them coming!


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Aug 18, 2008 20:21 as a reply to  @ PhotosGuy's post |  #8

I nice older Stang...

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What interested me was this:

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Aug 18, 2008 20:24 as a reply to  @ fishingjts's post |  #9

ok... a couple more for tonight:

A friend of mine's 12 second V6...

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A modern day Hot Rod Lincoln! (complete with turbo! woohoo!)

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Aug 18, 2008 21:27 |  #10

fishingjts wrote in post #6133993 (external link)
A modern day Hot Rod Lincoln! (complete with turbo! woohoo!)

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Funny. I was an engineer on the early part of the launch of the FWD D258/D333 Five Hundred/Montego 6-sp auto (Aisin F21++) which also went into the CD3xx (Fusion/Milan/Zephyr/M​KZ). I don't think that trans can take too much torque. It does handle the Volvo/Yamaha 4.4L V-8, so maybe...

I'll take my Fusion SEL - manual trans.


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Aug 19, 2008 07:31 |  #11

A friend of mine's 12 second V6...

It's nice to be able to get something like that today. "Back when" you could pick one up for under $4,000!


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