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the first year was absolutely crazy
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because there is really very little
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supervision but the police got on it
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right away they cleaned it up it's
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turned into about a million people that
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show up every year I tell you cars in
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Detroit keeps a lot of people together
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and I think it induces young and old of
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all ages cars is what started us through
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us they just what we are today we like
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to celebrate our culture
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oh you know I'm an old guy so you know
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it takes me back to my huge that's kind
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of why we celebrate the cruise is
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because it brings back our memories I've
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been cruising Woodward Avenue since 1964
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we would ride our bikes up here and
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watch the likes of John DeLorean and the
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hydrogen's ramp charger cars it was a
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hotbed of activity on Friday and
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Saturday nights it was a cheapest thing
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to do
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gas was 29 cents a gallon and we cruise
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and we drag race that was only 17 years
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old at that time it was a big thrill for
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me because I probably the youngest kid
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that was drag racing at that time they
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loved g-force oh it was great we used to
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drive up and down Woodward ball four
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lanes wide holding hands that goes back
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to high school we had everything at our
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right foot you know it was a great time
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to be alive
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I bought at ninety nine thirty two
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thousand miles
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it's a charmer the fins stainless cold I
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mean you could put for dead people in
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the trunk this is a 1962 Corvette it's a
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300 horsepower Glide they only built 265
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of them so it's kind of a rare beast
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this is a 1951 MG TD
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this car was made for British
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consumption right-hand drive so you're
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shifting whether your left hand all the
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time
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54 Chevy got it in Kansas bought it is a
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right out of the field 265 stingray
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coupe with air-conditioning which is
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somewhat rare and all the other features
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except power steering that's a bugger
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the spirit was a little gift my dad had
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a Ford dealership I'd go and fitting
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them bought Mustangs and stand on the
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seat like I'm driving oh my dad always
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worked on him he was always tinkering
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and it was just you know something we
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were always around my old man he was in
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the cars when were younger we if we see
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an old you know thirties 40 car on the
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side of the road he'd always stop and
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look at it my mom always said that I
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came out you know smoking the tires
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lowrider magazine books Internet
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anything you could find with cars with
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hydraulics custom paint and just
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inspired me as a kid started with Hot
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Wheels I think it did with a lot of
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people and my buddy had a 51 Oldsmobile
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car and he blew me away
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I just said well I needed all four
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wheels and I've been with American ships
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it's a hobby but it's more it's more
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than that right it's like gets in your
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blood it's kind of a bug you get into it
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you never get rid of it you're never
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really out of it you're always in the
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car game it's a passion it's a it's a ha
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it's not just a hobby every night after
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work turning wrenches fixing maintaining
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you change the oil you clean the engine
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I really get attached to the car there's
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a closeness I know every crevice every
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bump everything there is because I don't
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use the wheels I do everything by hand
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nothing like this when I started when I
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got it it was pretty tired pretty worn
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out the restoration process to bring it
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back and make it new again it's fun it's
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just a kick
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you got something that's broken you have
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no idea what's going on you've never
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taken it apart you don't know what it's
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supposed to work like originally so how
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are you supposed to get this thing is
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broken back to that but you can actually
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a lot of times you can work your way
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through it working on a car lets me
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clear my mind
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some people play music and some play the
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piano I work on the car I have a lot of
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stress and when I go into the garage
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everything stops
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my first car was a band before dan I
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think my dad did that to make me realize
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how much gas prices are worth it was a
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minivan
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I put rims sound system tinted the
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windows you know it's all I could do as
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a youngster in high school oh I loved it
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it was a white Omega Oldsmobile the
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t-tops with the double seat I was 16 and
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I loved it it was so fun and just be
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able to drive it gave me some freedom
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because I I could I could go and do
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things everybody went to the drive-in
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then that has women on roller skates
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come out and serve you so that was kind
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of where we would accumulate the
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euphoria was amazing freedom rado
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freedom getting to talk to people their
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experiences that they might have had the
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same similar type vehicle it reaches a
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lot of people across the board for
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muscle cars to everything that's the
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best part of it people walk up this
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guy's been talking for a half-hour I
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don't know if I'm Adam we're best
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friends none of us have a problem on our
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own if we have one we'll call up one and
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say hey I've got this what what do you
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think where's a good place to get the
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parts the guy says well hey uh I'm free
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this afternoon I'll come over to help
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you put her on so we have a kind of a
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bond has to come that over the 20 years
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we've been doing this that we've just
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become very very close friends but all
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because of the car
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More than one million Classic Car Enthusiasts from all-over the globe participated in the world's largest, annual one-day classic car show, where the engines of 40,000 classic cars roared up-and-down Detroit's historic Woodward Avenue.
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