Your teen age cruisin' hang outs
Not as big as the world renown Woodward Dream Cruise, but a better chance to meet and talk. No the shirt doesn't still fit. lol
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No, not as big as the Woodward Dream Cruise, but the cars at Dukes were much faster.... Plus Dukes was a weekend thing all spring and summer long when it didn't rain, not just one weekend in the summer like Woodward Dream Cruise... They consistently drew over 1000 people at one time on their corner of the block on Friday and Saturday nights with many people coming and going throughout the night... It was pretty crazy and exciting... People would work on their car all week long to have it ready for Fri and Sat nights at Dukes... The local ma and pa parts stores made runs to their warehouse three times per day minimum and you could get your parts within 4 hours max of ordering them...
One guy had a 70 Hemi Challenger with an R/T hood with a snorkel scoop... He blew his engine at the Mopar Nats one summer and had the car running and back at Dukes within two weeks...
Mr. Mustang had a late 60's Lincoln Continental that could run 13's...
Another guy had a Duster with dual quads in it, refused to open the hood and told anybody that asked that it was a small block, but if you looked closely and knew what to look for, you could see it was a 426 Hemi intake bolt pattern...
Many of the cars there could do 12 - 11 seconds in street trim...
A Chevy Monza with a 350 and cut out exhaust and slicks, etc... Kevin with a 69 Camaro raced him on 107th and it was a dead tie (asphalt starting line), then took him out to Sauk Trail where the starting line was concrete and beat him by 4 cars.... Kevin was running street tires and full exhaust to the Monza's slicks and open cut-outs...
The guy I knew with the GSS Dart could run 12.45 naturally aspirated and ran a best of 11.17 with nitrous and slicks... He could run faster if he could fit larger slicks on it, but refused to cut and tub it as it was one of 50 GSS 68 Darts with under 50 k original miles on it...
That black Dodge truck could run in the 13's with his nitrous... He surprised alot of people and took their money with that truck...
Another guy had a T-Bucket with a 440 six pack and gear drive that ran with the 10 second crowd... One summer he was the top dog... He worked as a mechanic at a local Chrysler dealer and got employee discount on parts...
Steve D. built a 79 Camaro with over $10,000 in the engine and a 4 link rear suspension that beat a race Suzuki motorcycle... Man that car was amazing to see launch off the line, it just squatted and jumped forward...
There was another guy that made a car out of a coffin... He could shoot flames out of the staggered exhaust pipes... Like the old hot rods, Munster etc, that drove it from the north side to cruise Dukes on weekends... We passed him on the highway once coming back from Marriot's Great America on our prom weekend...
