Woodward Dream Cruise 2007 our story

[prova4re]

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It rained on saturday so most went home early, this one day cruise attracts over 1.5 million people and 40,000 cars. People tend to come in for a week and drive around even though its a one day event, you can see every kind of strange car you can think of. It use to be that if you drove a import of any kind you got booed by the people on the side of the road, these days exotics and the ricers cruise together. The event takes place on the 8 lane 16 mile stretch of Woodward ave. and there are about 10 city's involved.
The big 3 have booths set up showing the new concept cars as well as some of there old collectors pieces. The cops have cracked down and stopped all the burn outs that people use to get away with in previous years, its a $1,000 fine if you get busted doing it.
Other than that anything goes as far as cars that you can drive on the street, there was even a giant Hemi powered big wheel driving down the road followed by a Indy car.

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These trucks were chasing each other around all week log

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On the way to the event we saw 2 choppers chasing 2 real nascar stock cars on the highway, there was a race at MIS that sunday so they wanted to promote it by letting them run on the freeways. If you have eve driven on 696 near woodward you would know that it has 20ft walls around it for about 10 miles, that made the stock cars sound like fighter jets streaking thru the city.
Now most people do a write up about the hot rods in this event, after all it is a celebration of the 50's era and the cars that ruled in that day.
While I love cars in general I was never a big fan of the hot rod mentality, I mean I am not a 0 to 60 type of guy, and I could care less about how fast a car can run the quarter mile. I do how ever appreciate the passion that people have for there cars, even if they are not my taste. The problem in Detroit has always been the big 3 mentality, most people work for some type of auto related company and are afraid to drive a exotic or import even though they have one parked in the garage. Just one of the reasons why Michigan is well known for there sunday drivers.
So we decided to show you as many of the imports, exotics and unique cars that we could find on the cruise.
We went early on friday to see all the booths get set up, as saturday there was going to be to many people to battle to get a look at the cars.


The freak girls

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Yo homie welcome to Detroit

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This was one nice old school Buick

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The Ford booth was depressing as hell, just like there stock these days it was empty and lacking any kind of excitement.
Full of Mustangs that had been made over ten fold to bring some kind of interest to the company, the only exciting thing in there booth was the woody Bronco that a shop teacher had made with his high school students.

No thats not my living room floor.

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Mini me

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The only interesting cars in the ford booth.

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Typical Woodward cruiser

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Foose edition Mustang

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The M.A.S.H guys got in a bit of trouble with there real machine gun, some guy came up and flashed a Home land security badge and pulled the jeep over to a side ally. The cops showed up and were checking out his gun making sure it didn't have a firing mechanism. They made him cover it back up and put a pad lock on it before they would let him go. The entire time the crowd booed the cops, they started to chant free GI Joe......free GI Joe.

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The GM booth was cool, and packed with people that were trying to get a peak at the Transformer cars on display.
The movie was shot in Detroit at old train station that has been abandoned for the past 20 years.

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Bumble bee

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Richard, who took all the cool pics.

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Cool looking truck

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Dustin

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The real working Camaro.

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Cop cars were cool too
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I have never seen so many Police bikes in one spot before, I just kept thinking if I pushed one over would they all fall like dominos?

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Jay leno designed this car

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Ferraris

Detroit doesn't have that many F cars, and you have to have some balls to bring yours out to this meet.

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Spotted my old car, now if I only had a snow ball to throw at it.

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Exotics
This has to be the best color for this car imo.

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Remember our last Bentley video?

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Why? Why?Why? Why?Why? Why?Why? Why?

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I have seen this car every year but I have no clue what it is.

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This car was ignored by most people

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Cobras

Cobras are cool the only problem with them is you can't tell a real on from a fake.

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Mini Mustang, aka clown car.

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I want to take this car on our next Rally.

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One of the coolest cars on the strip.

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Crazy cars

Bus with a hot tub stripers in side and a flame out of the top.

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Bmw?

The guy who painted this car was on a bad Acid trip at the time, some how they crammed a 350 Chevy engine in the rear.
The car did wheelies when it took off in first gear, but was broken down on the side of the road by the end of the day.

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Batmobile
He was shooting tennis balls out the pipes in the rear.

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Boat
Some kind of military boat that was giving rides to people for a donation, it was leaking oil and broken down by the end of the day.

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This car had every kind of car emblem on it.

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In a nut shell that was the woodward dream cruise, or at least our version of it.
The cruise was nothing more than a rolling parking lot of normal every day cars, most of the hot rods had gone home before 2pm due to the over cast skies.
The cruise has become a commercial event more that a weekend of fun for the family.
There are so many mini vans, suvs, pick up trucks, semi tucks, rolling billboards you cant see past them, at every corner there was some one trying to ether promote there product or sell you something. Most of the locals think is should be canceled next year, they even had signs along the road that said say no to woodward 2008. Now I can see why.

[Don]

Alot of cool cars but it doesn't sound like you had much fun at the event at all. Good write up btw. Although I don't know if I'm glad that I missed it or sad that I missed it. :dunno:

[chunky]

yeah that hate imports, every time i heard someone on the side say something to me i made sure to give them a nice 8k rpm open downpipe hello back. i wonder why they don't like us?

[Token]

Yo homie welcome to Detroit

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Mah People representin!


Why? Why?Why? Why?Why? Why?Why? Why?

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Who the Fuck rices an Audi. Its so disrespectful. Hell who rices a German Car?


From the looks of things im kind of glad I didnt come. I was really gonna catch a plane. But Brian you took some amazing shots.

[l3it3r]

brian didn't take the photos! Didn't you see the gigantor video camera in his hands?

[wantarace]

our event was rained out as well in ohio oh well good photos

[Token]

brian didn't take the photos! Didn't you see the gigantor video camera in his hands?

Oh, Damn am I a DUFAZZ!

[XLR82XS]

Well at least we got a little good driving in and Mark fixed the valve retainer in the Camaro uber fast so it got back on the road.

[Tonk]

Who was the photographer? I really REALLY like their style.

[I'm Gay]

FRIDAY NIGHT PICS?

[Top Secret]

wonder what camera the photographer was using. really nice pics btw, I missed it, but most of my friends told me that it sucked in the way that there were more soccer moms/regular daily commuter cars than any exotic, import, hot rod combined... oh and the guy with the strippers and everything lives almost right next to my aunt house, I think the name of the bus is the booty lounge or something like that hahaha.

[Bob808]

The real working Camaro.

That's funny considering it doesn't have a roof! :p Silly Americans cutting corners. When Holden made a convertible Monaro (Marilyn), it had an operational/functional roof!

[wyald bill]

that one car that you've seen every year but not sure what it is, is a GM proto-type, i heard when the guy wants to get rid of it he has to give it back to GM so they can crush it. sad but true.

[I'm Gay]

that one car that you've seen every year but not sure what it is, is a GM proto-type, i heard when the guy wants to get rid of it he has to give it back to GM so they can crush it. sad but true.

nice story but its fuckin bullshit dude




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[wyald bill]

what!? than instead of cusin me out why not just tell me, cus i dont know you, but the GM thing is what i was told 4 years ago

[SilverEcstasy]

Very nice pictures!! They came out great! I'm still starting out in photography and I loved the lens, seemed to have a fish-eye style to it, but very surreal!

[prova4re]

Richard rally bitch shot the pics, the kid has some skillz.

[AshleyVanDyke]

Sweet pics. Looks like fun.

[XLR82XS]

It's Eric's dad's car. (Eric owns Auto Zone @ 14 mile) Its a on-off car he made called the Helldorado. 1,800lbs. with a Northstar V8.

[wyald bill]

damn lxa why didnt anyone tell me that instead of the GM thing, layinframe2k you where right

[DUSTIN WORLES]

Great write up prova4re! It was a little disappointing this year. It was the first time we actually walked around on the streets instead of staying in the car. The rain screwed up cruising plans on Saturday night and Sunday.

[Mikel]

Looked like an awesome event, hope you guys had fun

[I'm Gay]

hope teck will be back next year

[Joel]

i hope to make it up there next year, chunky if i have my car and you got yours, we'll cruse together.

[Dude]

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Who the Fuck rices an Audi. Its so disrespectful. Hell who rices a German Car?
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have you ever been in germany ?

just for example:

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[BLACK ATTACK]

Pics look good,I'm gonna have to make it up there next year!!

[Interlinker]

I really like the shots... props to Richard. We were planning the trip for this but decided to try to go to the NOPI event to support Dado. That never happened and a 6 hour drive to the D wasn't in us at that point so we went back home. If they have one next year, maybe we will go. We would rather go to Maryland and hang with the crew instead of going to Billboard USA @ Woodward though.

[audi_marx]

mischief please come for woodward 2009, 2008 was fun as hell


2007 was just an off year

[l3it3r]

The woodward chapter in Mischief 7 is great!

[audi_marx]

yeah 2 of my buddies said they went to a thing in 07 and their a4's were filmed doing 90+ down 696. can't wait to see if they made it in the film

[J1mb00]

damn... i thought this would be a dani woodward thread...

[auto addicted]

i hope i made the video.