Modern Vespa

Found out recently, friends, who are collectors of vintage cars, will be going to the Woodward Dream Cruise and dear one and I decided we will ride over, to meet up with them, as it will only be about a 200 mile ride along the south and then west shores of Lake Erie.

The Woodward Dream Cruise is the world's largest celebration of classic car culture that attracts more than 40,000 muscle cars, street rods, custom, collector and special interest vehicles.

Anyone else planning to attend?

Looks Awesome and I wish I could attend only watch out for those Michigan roads!

My son Sam lives one house off Woodward Avenue in Berkley. Maybe that would be a good weekend to to ride another IB.

But he might be moving to Chicago before then.

I lived in Detroit in the late 70's through early 80's, during my high school years. Man, Woodward Avenue evokes a lot of memories! You could always find someone to drag race on Woodward, especially between 6 and 8 Mile Roads, and plenty of places to find beer in between. Fights in those days were mostly fists and sometimes a chain would swing by. I built up a Cutlass 442 that could hold its own fairly well, but it only got about 6MPG and I always struggled with having enough gas money for cruising.

Ah, youth...now, I just yell at people for driving too fast down my street.

I sure wish I could go to this.

I fully understand your recollection! Time period and what was acceptable!

This was my first time to the Woodward Dream Cruise. I had an absolutely great time ... I am planning next year!!!

Aside of all the way, way, real way, cool cars ... saw a couple of Buddies, Ruckus', and Vino's parked along Woodward. Saw two Vespa 150's go past as we lunched at the Irish Pub on Maple in Birmingham. Chatted with rider and passenger on a Spyder on Woodward and as we chatted I said I came in on a GTV250 from the North Coast. Rider looked VERY surprised!

Any MV'ers, were you there? Where? We were parked at Woodward and Maple.

Met many locals! Great time!!! There is always next year!!!

Any photos?

If not thanks for the update. I'm gonna goggle it and see what images I can find.

I was having too great of a time to take photos with my camera ... I have a few crazy photos taken on my iPhone ... dear one has the "cool" photos of cars ... mine are of the road roaches and such. The exceptions being the kit car with the hemi engine and 1959 Fiat 500 Jolly with basket seats.

Once I upload to the hard drive ... I will post ...

There are a couple of snaps from my 4.8 mile walk of the route in the Copy-E-Cat is down thread:

Cop-e-cat IS GETTING BETTER!!!!!! (Page 9)

Was fantastic, as usual. Any gearhead wouldn't believe the collection of metal (and the variety!) on that Saturday in August that is the Woodward Dream Cruise.

If you go to detnews.com they have galleries of the dream cruise.