The Woodward Dream Cruise, a Detroit Classic


Red, White and Chrome Dream Cruise by kelley girl

The 15th annual Woodward Dream Cruise happens this Saturday, August 15, 2009 in Detroit, Michigan. It's billed as the world's largest one-day celebration of car culture, and with more 1.7 million visitors and over than 40,000 muscle cars, street rods, custom, collector and special interest vehicles, it delivers. Be sure to check out their Woodward Dream Cruise history page!

Speaking of history, Michigan in Pictures has an excerpt from Cruisin' the Original: Woodward Avenue from Arcadia Publishing that features some excellent photos from the 1950s. Did someone say photos? Check out this Flickr slideshow of Woodward Dream Cruise photos.

The Detroit News are official sponsors of the event and are featuring extensive Woodward Dream Cruise coverage of the activities, photo galleries, live video on Cruise day and live blogging as the event unfolds. Do not miss their Interactive: Your guide to the Woodward Dream Cruise.

Absolute Michigan's video correspondents Scott Allman and Jim McClain visited the Woodward Dream Cruise in 2008 and got some great shots of the cars along with interviews with the interesting and colorful characters that make up the world's largest one-day car event:

It's definitely worth clicking over to see the high quality version.

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This entry was written by farlane and posted on August 12, 2009 at 10:17 am and filed under Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Blogs & Forums, Cars, Trucks & Other Vehicles, Community, Destinations, Detroit, Festivals, Attractions & Event Calendars, History & Libraries, Hobbies, Lodging & Travel, Media, Michigan, Newspapers, Photo, Photography & Film, Recreation & Sports, Shopping, Technology & Internet Media, Television & Internet Video, The Michigan Pages, The Michigan Pages: History, Video. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. farlane
    Posted August 19, 2007 at 7:31 am | Permalink

    Mark Houston of 360Michigan has panoramas from the 2007 Woodward Dream Cruise posted!

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  2. Cruise Ships
    Posted June 28, 2010 at 6:40 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the information the wood ward dream cruise is nice cruise i see the many pics .
    ==============Alex

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  3. Laureano Quinones
    Posted August 14, 2010 at 9:40 am | Permalink

    Boy, talk about missleading and just plain wrong news... Absolute Michigan: The Woodward Dream Cruise is not this saturday, august 15 (that would be SUNDAY...!) but Saturday August 21st.

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