Dream Cruise

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Dayle and I are going to the Woodward Ave Dream Cruise Friday and Saturday the 17th and 18th . This is the biggest one in the U S. The New York Times Aug. 3rd has a story about it. About 40,000 cars and over 1 million viewers . Every auto manufacture is there . Anyone else going from WCCC ?

[sr71]

I'm going to miss it this year but if you have not been before you are in for a real treat. Personally I prefer Thursday and Friday evening - for sure Saturday is the big day but it is so over-the-top with people. TIP: Try to find out where the car clubs will be parking prior to going.

[trularin]

I try to avoid Woodward for that week.

There are actually about 2.5 million people in attendance per year with about 1 million at once.

If you have the time, make sure you have:

1. A car that will not over heat sitting in traffic.
2. A bottle of cold water with you while you sit in traffic.
3. no where to go at any particular time while you are in traffic.
4. patience.

It is an amazing show of Detroit auto excellence.

[Bill Wells]

everything ya need to know about the WDC :

http://www.woodwarddreamcruise.com/

car clubs are scattered and parking fees are normally attached to those spots - with maximum space limits and members only .

in general folks park anywhere they can, afterall , it is not all paid for parking along 16 miles of 8 lane hiway for 30,000 or more cars and 1 or more million viewers . there are plenty of places .

"Mecca" is between 13 mile and 15 mile (Maple Road ) along Woodward , however that also means slowest travel .

Each night before the weekend traffic continues to build with ' pre- cruisers' . It is near gridlock by Thurs eve . Fri and Sat are virtual gridlock as it becomes the Woodward CRAWL .

better to cruise early, pick a spot, park and watch them go by ...otherwise you see the same cars next to you, ahead and behind you , all at a 3 mph or less crawl as you stare at your temp gauge and wonder what the limit is !! yep, park it is best ...

it IS worth the trip !! I grew up cruising Woodward in the 60s and I still do it now (but now I AM in my 60s . LOL ) Bill

[preguess]

It's a great show, the only ones that I've missed were in 1995 and 2003 when the lights were out! I think that the Great Lakes Cobra Club is the ones that meet and have a reserved parking at Hazen St in Birmingham and theres probably 40-50 Cobra's there. A great place to stay is at the Marriot Courtyard on Center Point, runs around $115 per night and has good lighted parking and is only 1/2 mi of Woodward.

[Bill Wells]

the Great Lakes Cobra Club will be in Birmingham at HAZEL street, not Hazen, between 'old' and 'new' Woodward avenues , paid parking for the GLCC members .

Some others will be about 2.5 miles south of there and Dynamic Motorsports ( Superformance ) will be north of there about 3/4 of a mile at the Mercedes Benz dealership just south of Big Beaver Road ( 16 Mile Road equivialent ) .

The local precruisers are already out in the evenings . Bill

[trularin]

I cruised Woodward from 1972 to 1980. It was intersting to say the least.

This crawl as Bill said is wall to wall cars at about 1 MPH. It took me and hour to go a little under a mile and get off Woodward.

If you want to see what might be considered the largest rolling car show on the planet, this might be it.

Bill is right, 13 mile to 15 mile roads are the heavy cruising boundries. Heck, we used to make it to 9 mile or Quarton if we were looking for a spot to run without the police interfering.

[jams]

Those police officers always getting in the way.