I'd be up for that.
My group of 4-wheelin' friends meet for dinner every Thursday, and we start
out at a weekly car show place. No prizes though, just folks hanging around
looking at cars, old and new.
When the 4 or 5 heavily modded rigs pull out, we usually get some looks and
laughs. :)
The Adam Blaster
Two words, figure it out.....
>
> Hi BBQers,
>
> I just thought of something the other day and wanted to bring
>it up to see if there was any interest. There is an ice cream shop
>about 10-12 miles from DML HQ that has a cruise-in every friday
>night from 6-9pm. It is usually fairly well attended, depending
>on what the weather looks like it is doing; on a slow night there
>are about 40-50 cars, but its often up near 80. Mostly classics,
>muscle cars, some exotics like Vipers, Cobras, weird one-off
>creations, etc. however there is often some late model stuff too,
>I have seen a new Mustang there, Scion, PT Cruiser, Neon, etc. so
>they don't seem to be fussy; its pretty laid back. Anyone who brings
>a vehicle gets a ticket and is put into the drawing for some money
>and door prizes; there's no fee to enter. I thought it might be
>fun to roll in there with a bunch of Daks (muddy Daks maybe?) ;-)
>
> Anyway, that was just something that occured to me. They have
>an ice cream shop there which also sells some food items like
>burgers, hot dogs, etc. I'm not sure if this is something that
>would replace the regular ice cream stand, or if this could be an
>alternative to the usual ordering a pizza or grilling on Friday
>night? Or if nobody is interested, we can not go at all - I don't
>want to sound like I'm pushing the idea, its just that I only
>recently found out about the cruise-in and its kinda neat,
>especially for a rural area like this for it to draw such a wide
>variety of vehicles - I've seen some pretty cool stuff there.
>
> Even if we did decide this is something we might want to do,
>it would be somewhat weather dependant; I don't know if they
>still hold the cruise-in during inclement weather, but even if
>they do the turnout would probably be really low. The one
>time I was there when it was down to about 40-50 cars, it had
>been threatening to rain all day.
>
> Anyhoo, I just wanted to toss that out there for everyone
>to mull over before I forgot; now back to your regularly
>scheduled programming... :-)
>
>--
> -Jon-
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