Cruise Night in Flatlands USA

The last weekend in April every year my home town has this mini-event on a Friday night they call "Cruise Night."  It's a chance for people to show off their wheels on Main Street, while everyone else enjoys the evening...





This thing is really cool. An REO Speedwagon Pizza Truck that has an onboard woodstove, owned by a local pizzeria...



Lots of muscle cars...



A classic 'Stang...



We got to tour a new restaurant that is opening soon...





A cool fun night....

sweet rides....

Classic car cruise nights are so cool.

I really like that '69 Mustang - that is my dream classic car. It even has room for skis!

Nice.

The first time I drove through your town, I checked out that REO Speedwagon truck at the pizza joint.

Cruise Night is now officially outta control.  There was so many people I could barely walk home from work.  

I snapped a few phone pics...

Harv- I've driven through Cruise Night a few times, though never stopped. Plus, that Nomad pizza sign is unmistakeable. Didn't realize there were some flatlanders so close to me. Small world...ever go to the Tiger's Tale?

Been a while since I've been to the Tiger's Tale... when it was my stomping grounds a billion years ago it was called the Foolish Fox.

When we moved to the area in the late 60s it was called Black Barts. It had a sign that said "Lounge."  Mom.. what is a lounge? All I could imagine was people sitting in plastic reclining lawn chairs.

That Vett is insane..looks like a 71 LT1...

JasonWx wrote

That Vett is insane..looks like a 71 LT1...

Think it's a 73. The 68-72's all had chrome front and rear bumpers. The one in the pic only has a chrome rear bumper. Still a wicked cool car.

Yep..looks like a 73...

I looooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeee that VW beetle.  AWESOME!!!  

That Vette is so cool.  Brings back memories of doing 130 mph down Washington Avenue Extension circa 1988.  Thing just sat on the road like a rock, barely a buzz in the steering wheel.  Topped that speed only once, on my Honda Interceptor 750.  Same road; a little spookier.

Noah John wrote

That Vette is so cool.  Brings back memories of doing 130 mph down Washington Avenue Extension circa 1988.  Thing just sat on the road like a rock, barely a buzz in the steering wheel.  Topped that speed only once, on my Honda Interceptor 750.  Same road; a little spookier.

No way, I had one too---VF1000R---THE COOLEST OF COOL---the original sport bike. Wish I still had her.

While the Corvette is an American icon, IMO, it doesn't scream muscle car, to me it screams sports car.

What screams muscle car to me would be a 1967 Chev Yenko Camaro 427/425 HP, w/ a 4spd---that's one bad azz moFo



What's your muscle car??

You could wheelie the Interceptor through 4 gears.  So stupidly fast.  I was 19.  Lucky to live and tell the tale.

'68 Mustang GT Fastback.  Bullit's ride:





Or the '69 Roadrunner if you have a death wish:

Excellent choices---thought you may be a MOPAR guy---those big blocks will rip your head off


Isn't it amazing how the late 60's muscle cars are so sleek, simple, and almost mezmerizing to look at. They're "fast' sitting still.....something that is missing in todays market. To me modern cars look like squiggly lines on a piece of paper.

I was always partial to these:



I had a '69 Grand Prix with a 428 H.O. 4 bbl carb.  

Marcski wrote

I was always partial to these:



I had a '69 Grand Prix with a 428 H.O. 4 bbl carb.

Buddy of mine still has the '69 Lemans convertible.  400 4bbl I think.  I had no idea GM/Pontiac even made a 428.  I think Ford did.  Mopar had the 426 ("that thing got a Hemi?") .

Quick peek at the intertubz tells me Pontiac bored out a 421 HO to 426 and change - rounded to 427.  Don't know how they got that to equal 428.  I'm not quibbling about a lousy cubic inch of displacement I just like to know where these #s come from.  Maybe that's just how they differentiated the Pontiac 427 from the Chevy 427?  I dunno.  DeLorean probably insisted that his Pontiacs look phatter on paper than "mere" Chevys.

Marcski wrote

Perfect example of Camp's "looks fast sitting still." Great looking car.  Cool thread.

Noah John wrote

  DeLorean probably insisted that his Pontiacs look phatter on paper than "mere" Chevys.

FUNNY stuff right there NJ


I agree with Marcski, the GOATS are a cool car, seems as tho they always get passed over when muscle car talk comes up. Good call.

These bad boys never do----69 firebird 400 4spd---raw power