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| Scheduled cruise nights: 21 Actual Rain-outs: 9 2009 Rain-out Ratio: 43 % (Our toughest Weds. series in all 7 years) |
Final tally for Wednesdays in 2009 ? |
| Wednesday Nights-- on the 2009 Cruise Scene. |
| Why both May AND June together you ask ? Two words: l-o-u-s-y....w-e-a-t-h-e-r. After a rain-out of the first planned week on May 13th, we got things rolling on the 20th. With constant Wednesday rains, our next Denny's cruise didn't roll until June 17th ! Above: As you see, when the sun did shine, the lots were filled to capacity. Left: That's Phil's grabber blue '70 Mustang. Right: A gorgeous and muscular 1968 Plymouth Barracuda, ready to rock. |
| That lone Wednesday weekly cruise that wasn't rained-out actually turned out to be a great evening ! Above Right: Even the overflow lot was busting at the seams with dozens of cool classics on display. Far Left: Check out Rich V's pristine 1957 Nomad Wagon..the top-of-the-line Chevy wagon that year. Left: The 340 "6-pack" in Dave Q's '70 Challenger. Lower Left: Dennis's "bandit" black Trans Am takes the foreground of this upper-lot shot in glaring sun. Below: Hey--it's CruisinBruce's '59 Plymouth alongside Rich G's hot turquoise street rod. |
| May & June, 2009 |
| July, 2009 |
| The relentless rains of May & June continued right into July. It was yet another month before we cruised again on July the 15th ! Above Left: That's Bill S's way-cool Ford street rod. Left: Studebaker in the middle 1960s..car on borrowed time. Far Right: Check out a pair of ready-to-fly Cobras. |
| Hallelujah ! It took til nearly half-way through the season, but finally we enjoyed back-to-back wks ! Above: Ford & Chevy muscle sit side-by-side with this '68 Mustang and 1967 Chevy Corvette. Right: That's Mitch B's Buick Skylark convertible. The '69 ragtop is fresh off a recent restoration. Lower Right Corner: George M's little red '59. Below: A true RI "rat rod" draws quite a crowd of lookers. Love the board ! Far Left Corner: Walter's plain & simple '56 Ford. |
| August, 2009 |
| The first couple weeks of August forced yet more questionable weather upon our Wednesday cruise, holding back on car turnout..but certainly not on enthusiasm. Above: A '71 Chevelle on Corvette rims shows off its mill on the first Wed. evening in August..under hefty clouds. Upper Right Corner: That's a mild custom '56 Chevy 2-dr sedan on wide whites & a set of "baby moons." Lower Left: From the second week of the month, an unusual site was David's 1973 Volvo Station Wagon. |
| Thank goodness, better weather was back for the second half of the month. Far Upper Right: That's a '57 BMW Isetta..one of the smallest production cars ever built. With a mini wheelbase..the front of the car was the front door ! Upper Left: Daddy teaches Kyle how to properly polish the family's 1968 Charger R/T. Below: This '65 Rambler American ragtop base priced at $2415. Only about 3900 were produced. |
| September, 2009 |
| Departing from the pattern, we saw much sun on September Wednesdays but the cooler air arrived a bit early. Above: The first week of September brought out the last sizeable crowd of the year. It included 2 Packards- the blue '35 in the foreground and a yellow '38 in the distance. Left: Less commonly seen among Novas are the '66-67 bodies such as this mild custom 2-door hardtop. Below: Sept's 2nd week beckoned this low-mileage '47 Chevy that'd been off the road since 1969 ! |
| Above: more mid-September arrivals included Dennis O's 1940 Olds street rod. Left: A first-year Camaro SS-350 shows off its stripes. Right & Far Right: A pair of 60s Pontiacs shared lot space--a '65 GTO and '68 Bonneville. Below: By month's end came the last Wednesday cruise for 2009. Here, a flamed 1966 Thunderbird catches the last few rays of sunlight around half-past 6. Bottom: And how about this pair of striped GM mid-sized muscle machines ? That's a '70 Chevelle SS on the left and a 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass on the right. See you back at Dennys in '10 ! |
| Thursday Nights-- on the 2009 Cruise Scene. |
| In a summer over-filled with rain, Mother Nature was particularly unkind on Thursdays. Our first Phantom Cruise was set for May 14th..but the bi-weekly was rained-out each time until June 25th ! Top: Our "hot rod" crew were Thursday regulars. Above: George T. did an impromptu radiator hose seminar when his blew that first cruise week in June. |
| Incredibly, week two didn't arrive until Aug 6th. Yikes ! Above: Relaxing in the shade of the old apple trees. Above Far Right: Insurance man Rich Sacchetti stocks up on charity 50/50 tickets. Lower Left: Moe B's '56 Ford |
| By the time all was said & done, our final cruise arrived Sept. 3rd--only the 4th of the season ! Below: That last night brought the meek (a Met) and the mighty (a hot '66 GTO convertible). Below Right: Ed G's wild custom 1939 Ford rod. |
| Scheduled cruise nights: 9 Actual Rain-outs: 5 2009 Rain-out Ratio: 56 % (Our toughest-weather cruise of '09) |
Final tally for Thursdays in 2009 ? |
