Woodward Dream Cruise 2015 - August 14-15, 2015

[Rich W]

Woodward Dream Cruise 2014 - Saturday, August 15, 2015 (the 21st Anniversary of the Dream Cruise)

This year's Dream Cruise is only a month away and it is shaping up to be one of the best for our DeLoreans.

2015 is the 30th Anniversary of Back to the Future and our DeLoreans have already gotten a lot of attention
by the local media and Bloomfield Township, so if you are thinking about attending, make your plans now.

WXYZ-TV Channel 7 Detroit has already interviewed a few local DeLorean owners for their pre-Cruise show.

The world's largest car show and car cruise will have another outstanding display of DeLorean automobiles
for our fifth year at the Bloomfield Hills Mercedes Benz dealership. There is no better location to display
our DeLoreans, to huge crowds of people who have such a great admiration of John Z. DeLorean and who
enjoy seeing our DeLoreans, both on display, and cruising up and down Woodward Ave. This is a multi-club
DMC event, with cars from all over the Midwest and Canada. With over 50,000 vehicles attending, both on
and next to Woodward Ave, and over a million spectators, this Cruise is THE EVENT for all you gear-heads.

As with years past, we will have a few DMC POGs join us at our display, and this year we will also have
the 2015 DeLorean Raffle Car cruising Woodward Ave on Friday and Saturday, the week of the cruise.

Contact any of the participating DeLorean clubs for a registration form or just contact Rich Weissensel.
Check out the official Woodward Cruise website for more info: http://www.woodwarddreamcruise.com

Registration Note: As of July 15th, we already have 50% of the DeLorean Reserved parking spaces "filled",
so if you plan to attend and park with our DMC clubs, reserve your space now or reserve it very soon.

There is "cruising" all week, but the official DeLorean cruising is usually limited to Friday and Saturday.

See you in a month.

[Rich W]

Great response since the initial post and there are only a couple reserved spaces left (to park with the group of DeLoreans).

Note: We will have some spare General Parking passes available, first come, first served, to park in the general parking lot
in case anyone wants to stop by briefly, either with or without their DeLorean.

We plan to cruise as a group a few times throughout Saturday, but you can do all-day cruising too, if you can handle traffic.

We encourage pre-cruising on Friday afternoon, to get a good feel for what to expect Saturday (but with much less traffic)
or cruising very early on Saturday morning with no traffic (which is when I cruised a few miles with the D Rex in the past).

[Rich W]

The initial pre-purchased parking spaces have been Sold Out as of this past weekend ... thanks to everyone who responded.

We have some General Admission parking spaces at the nearby parking lot, so if you stop by the Bloomfield Hills Mercedes
dealership, try to let us know in advance or flag down someone at the DeLorean Display as you drive by on Woodward Ave,
so we can get you a parking pass for the general parking lot. As in years past, we can only park at Mercedes on Saturday,
so we may select an alternate meeting location (for lunch and/or dinner) between our cruising on Thursday and on Friday.

The Long Range forecast is looking pretty good for cruising (for now) so we hope to see many of you in a couple of weeks.

[Xopher]

Is anyone heading up to this from the Louisville, KY, area?

[Rich W]

Is anyone heading up to this from the Louisville, KY, area?

I have not heard of any caravans further than about 300 miles to the Detroit Metro area.

As of today (Wednesday, 8/12/15), these are the caravans that have reported in:

- caravan from Chicago area leaving tomorrow (Thursday) morning
- caravan from Southeast Wisconsin leaving on Friday morning
- caravan from Canada (leaving?) arriving Saturday morning

Anticipated cruising on Thursday night, all day on Friday and on/off all day on Saturday.

Reminder: The 2015 DeLorean Raffle Car will be on display and cruising at Woodward 2015

A big thanks to Dave Swingle and crew at DMC MW for getting the 2015 Raffle Car "cold" again
with a last minute install of a new AC compressor. Should make my cruising even cooler (lol).

See you at the Cruise !!

[aotmfilms]

I have not heard of any caravans further than about 300 miles to the Detroit Metro area.

As of today (Wednesday, 8/12/15), these are the caravans that have reported in:

- caravan from Chicago area leaving tomorrow (Thursday) morning
- caravan from Southeast Wisconsin leaving on Friday morning
- caravan from Canada (leaving?) arriving Saturday morning

Anticipated cruising on Thursday night, all day on Friday and on/off all day on Saturday.

Reminder: The 2015 DeLorean Raffle Car will be on display and cruising at Woodward 2015

A big thanks to Dave Swingle and crew at DMC MW for getting the 2015 Raffle Car "cold" again
with a last minute install of a new AC compressor. Should make my cruising even cooler (lol).

See you at the Cruise !!

If you guys eat somewhere on Friday or Saturday, (group event) please post it here so some of us "locals" can swing by :) I look forward to meeting y'all! I should be unbusy myself anytime after 7:30 p.m on Friday.

My Dad has a spot just south of I-696 that he uses each year but it is debateable if he will get it again this year....but I plan on parking there because it is a good area in Pleasent Ridge. But I will try to truck up to Bloomfield to meet you guys.

--Doug

[Rich W]

If you guys eat somewhere on Friday or Saturday, (group event) please post it here so some of us "locals" can swing by :) I look forward to meeting y'all! I should be unbusy myself anytime after 7:30 p.m on Friday.

My Dad has a spot just south of I-696 that he uses each year but it is debateable if he will get it again this year....but I plan on parking there because it is a good area in Pleasent Ridge. But I will try to truck up to Bloomfield to meet you guys.

--Doug

Hi Doug and others,

No firm plans for Thursday night or Friday night yet, and Saturday night will depend upon how tired we are after the next 3 days of Woodward activities.

For any local DeLorean enthusiasts in the Detroit Metro area, I will be doing a radio interview with Warren Pierce on 760 WJR during the 6 am hour Saturday.
Yeah, that's too darn early for most of you, but if they are giving me free air time to talk about DeLoreans, the new DCS and DCS Raffle Car, then I'm there.

Other radio and TV interviews are all TBA, with some on Friday and some on Saturday. It's going to be a very busy next 3 days.

See you at the Cruise !!

Thanks,
Rich W.

[aotmfilms]

Rich,

Roger. I will try to get over there to see you guys. I don't know if I will be up at 6 a.m. but if I am, I'll tune into 760 a.m. (I think thats Sports/news Talk Radio).

If you want a rebroadcast/broadcast of Rich's interview, you can go to:

http://www.wjr.com/ and click on "Listen Now", 6 a.m. EST is 3 a.m. in California and I think 2 p.m. in Italy. You can listen anywhere you have internet..... If I get up that early I can record it and post it on youtube or vimeo....

--Doug

[Rich W]

Rich,

Roger. I will try to get over there to see you guys. I don't know if I will be up at 6 a.m. but if I am, I'll tune into 760 a.m. (I think thats Sports/news Talk Radio).

If you want a rebroadcast/broadcast of Rich's interview, you can go to:

http://www.wjr.com/ and click on "Listen Now", 6 a.m. EST is 3 a.m. in California and I think 2 p.m. in Italy. You can listen anywhere you have internet..... If I get up that early I can record it and post it on youtube or vimeo....

--Doug

Thanks Doug. Got an email from Lori at the radio station.
Interview moved to 6:40 am (not that much later).

Made it to Woodward OK. Plan to cruise a little after dinner.

[Rich W]

Thanks Doug. Got an email from Lori at the radio station.
Interview moved to 6:40 am (not that much later).

Made it to Woodward OK. Plan to cruise a little after dinner.

Only a little cruising on Thursday, but two long rounds of cruising on Friday.

A few hours and a couple loops before Lunch and a few more before Dinner.
We saw a DeLorean with chromed, stock wheels right after our Lunch stop.

Just finished up Dinner and the morning radio interview was moved back to 6:10 am.

Safe to say it will most likely be during the 6 am hour and leave it at that.

As Doug mentioned, it may be much easier to listen on the website link later.

[aotmfilms]

Only a little cruising on Thursday, but two long rounds of cruising on Friday.

A few hours and a couple loops before Lunch and a few more before Dinner.
We saw a DeLorean with chromed, stock wheels right after our Lunch stop.

Just finished up Dinner and the morning radio interview was moved back to 6:10 am.

Safe to say it will most likely be during the 6 am hour and leave it at that.

As Doug mentioned, it may be much easier to listen on the website link later.

I saw someone with a black bra on down by my location just south of I-696..... I tried to roll up there to see you guys but traffic was moving in only one direction, south.... :(

Here is some other pictures and a news story: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/woodward-dream-cruise/2015/08/15/delorean-owner-loves-car-hates-comments/31789043/

Bought it in Battle Creek not Grand Rapids
I live in Macomb not "Highland Township"
Purchased the car in July, inspected it in June.

Detroit News is doing some Yahoo reporting....
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I saw your pictures on FB. Y'all had some nice looking Women there, all I got were the Oak Ridge Boys :( LOL
--Doug

(Yeah, 6 a.m. came early, soooo early in fact I didn't get to the Dream Cruise until 1:30 p.m. :( )

[aotmfilms]

We saw a DeLorean with chromed, stock wheels right after our Lunch stop.



Hmmmm, wasn't me. I live over by Grosebeck and Gratiot area.....due to the weather I didn't even pull the D out. It was bad on Friday with the weather around 7 p.m. :(

[Rich W]

I saw your pictures on FB.
Y'all had some nice looking Women there, all I got were the Oak Ridge Boys :( LOL
--Doug

(Yeah, 6 a.m. came early, soooo early in fact I didn't get to the Dream Cruise until 1:30 p.m. :( )

New for Woodward 2015 was the Gullwing Cam (motion sensor camera on the roof, between the open gullwing doors)

Yes, the Gullwing Cam caught some women checking out the 2015 DeLorean Raffle Car and the rest of the DeLoreans.

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[Rich W]

New at the Woodward Dream Cruise 2015 was the "Gullwing Cam", positioned on the roof, between the open gullwing doors
on the 2015 DeLorean Raffle Car. Gullwing Cam took some great photos at Woodward this year, including some DeLoreans.

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[Rich W]

A half dozen photos (out of hundreds) taken by Gullwing Cam,
of some of the cool cars at the Woodward Dream Cruise 2015.

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[Rich W]

A half dozen photos (out of hundreds) taken by Gullwing Cam,
of some of the cool cars at the Woodward Dream Cruise 2015.

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[Domi]

The convertible Trans-Am is really cool :)

[Rich W]

The convertible Trans-Am is really cool :)

Ahhh, you noticed it. At least 3 different "Bandit" cars at Woodward 2015.

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[Domi]

The 1977's also looks really nice!

[Citizen]

Yes, the Gullwing Cam caught some women checking out the 2015 DeLorean Raffle Car and the rest of the DeLoreans.



Some really great shots there (of DeLoreans). Thanks for posting them, for us guys that didn't get to go to the dream cruise.

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[refugeefromcalif]

Rich, Great shots of all the different cars!

George

[Rich W]

Some encore photos of the variety of vehicles at WDC 2015.

Another half dozen "motion" photos taken by Gullwing Cam,
of some of the cool cars at the Woodward Dream Cruise 2015.

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[Rich_NYS]

No encore of the cutoffs?! lol

[Rich W]

No encore of the cutoffs?! lol

Encore requested by Rich_NYS

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[Rich W]

More encore photos of the variety of vehicles at WDC 2015.

Another half dozen "motion" photos taken by Gullwing Cam,
of some of the cool cars at the Woodward Dream Cruise 2015.

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[Rich_NYS]

Encore requested by Rich_NYS

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:cheers:

[Rich W]

More encore photos of the variety of vehicles at WDC 2015.

Another half dozen "motion" photos taken by Gullwing Cam,
of some of the cool cars at the Woodward Dream Cruise 2015.

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[Rich W]

Last photos this week of the variety of vehicles at WDC 2015.

Another half dozen "motion" photos taken by Gullwing Cam,
of some of the cool cars at the Woodward Dream Cruise 2015.

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