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General discussion, images, events and questions about what's going on in the Great Lakes States of IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI.
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Rick we can do some smoky burnouts! I'll try and get friday off.
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Wrongway, were you able to time your appointment with the DC? Anybody else like to try and meet up?
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I am rigidly flexible on whatever you fellas wish to do with me and I really appreciate the hospitality. I'm good for paying for gas, parking, lunch, dinner etc. just for the ride along. Many thanks, Rick
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It’s not a lack of interest but a lack of a good location. The old place on M59 and south Woodward, the guy wanted over $2k last year and Widetrackers are cheap and aren’t willing to pay close to $100 for parking. Bricks is also attractive for the dedicated club parking and most folks aren’t bored with the Bricks yet. The place across the street from the train station won’t even talk to us period. So that place is out. The only other alternative is to pair up with another club. You know who is supposed to be working on it, right? It’s been 3-4 years of bad locations or none at all.
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Fri am would be a good time to meet up with B52, posted this in another tread.
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Can't speak for Joe, but he's usually working Friday. I would be up for an early cruise down. Beth will be back to work, so I'll check with Mike (he may be working as well. ) JustaG6 will be working Friday too. This might be a good time to meet up with B52? Saturday shoot for our normal meet up N quick cruise down/back. Seems from the meeting, that Widetrackers plan to take over the same spot across from the Chevy dealer at the Bricks with LIL interest in Woodward.
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In case I didn't state it earlier, I am registered for the cruise-in at M1 Concourse, so I will be parking inside the gate. I will be driving Violet for this event (after all it is sponsored by Dodge).
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It looks like the Michigan Widetrackers will be sucking wind again in regards to parking for this year's Woodward Dream Cruise. Nothing has been resolved or finalized. A lot of people are prepared to try attending the Back to the Bricks day long event in nearby Flint instead. The best we may be able to come up with is what happened last year. Golling Buick-GMC in nearby Lake Orion is the Widetrackers patron sponsor/supporter. We use their dealership for our club meetings, our Annual Dustoff car show, and we patronize their car shows and cruises. Golling is also the coordinator for the Metro Detroit Buick-GMC dealers during Woodward. This has been held at Nicky D's Coney Island (32657 Woodward Ave, Royal Oak, MI 48073). What has happened in years past is you park your ride at the nearby Greenfield Elementary school (a few bocks off Woodward) and they shuttle you to Nicky D's and they have security watching the cars in the lot. They have lawn chairs but I suspect you can bring your own. When you want to leave to go home or cruise, you just take the next shuttle back to the school lot. I brought my own cooler and camera last year. I will try to firm up details in the next couple of weeks. Justa/Indyman - Do we want to do a run on Friday morning/early afternoon or our usual dawn patrol run Saturday morning with JustaG6 and Mikey? I need to be on the west side of the state before dinner Friday night for the West Michigan Pontiac Club's big charity car show. So late Friday afternoon/evening is out for me.
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Need to figure out where we will be parking and go from there. Hope we can all meet up.
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That’s the spirit Fitzy! You could even say that you could eat their shit! And die…happy!
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I'll bet they do pack fudge...a shitload.
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My wife and I will be staying in East Pointe, MI for the week of the Woodward Dream Cruise visiting family - in a rental car, no classic Pontiac. But please keep me informed on any plans for the Dream Cruise. Rick
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As will I. The question at the moment is where will we be based out of. I have yet to hear any details yet on what the Widetrackers are doing for parking on Woodward this year.
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i will be out terrorizing the streets for sure. hope to see ya there!
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My wife and I won't make it to Roadkill Nights but we will be there for the Woodward Dream Cruise on 15 August - we arrive on 12 August and depart on 19 August, IIRC. Is anybody in the Detroit area doing anything for the Dream Cruise? Rick
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That’s part of the joke Fitzy! They pack fudge too, you know!
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fantastic pics mate
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That was awesome - great pics and commentary. That Blue Whale was freaky...must have been good drugs in the 50s too. I'm gonna say it again: Uranus Fudge Factory! Every time I say it I feel dirty.
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Awesome pic's. Thankz for sharing
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The 12th annual Roadkill Nights will be held at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac Michigan on Saturday, August 8, 2026. Registration is now open. Pontiac Roadkill Nights 2026 - Powered by DodgeI know Indyman Joe is trying to run in the small tire category. I registered Violet for the Cruise-In. It sounds like besides drag racing on Woodward, there will be chances to run all or part of the Champion, M1's road course or some sort of auto cross event too.
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Day 6 - Car Show Day and Awards Ceremony I had to be on the show field by 8:00 am, according to the rules. I was frankly expecting a huge line of cars as I was late getting to Pontiac in BB. It was 20 minutes to 8:00 when I got there. There was no line, no waiting. I cruised right in and found my assigned spot. GMCs I voted this for best of show 1992 and later. I wanna do the Bandit Run someday!!!! Sniff! Sniff! How about a Fiero Lambo? I was sorta surprised to see Camaro conversions allowed at the show. I was never sure where POCI stood on these. They are six figure cars all day though. It was nice to see a GMC 60 degree V6 in this truck. I couldn't what the displacement was though. Presentation of the colors, the singing of God Bless America. God Bless the USA, and the National Anthem. Monkeemobile #2 Monkeemobile #1 Aussie Paul Adams lives in Queensland. When he was seven years old, he saw Monkeemobile #2. Later in life, he spent seven years recreating his own Monkeemobile down under. He took me on a personal guied tour of both cars and he pointed out the differences between the two. Some obvious and some very subtle. This was very cool. These are my dream Pontiacs! Note the switches in front of the shifter. They were used for in-car microphone hook ups. The Last Ride GTO Slapshot GTO The xXx GTO. This looks seriously badass! At the awards ceremony, we had speeches from the Mayor of Pontiac ,,,,and Ben Hinmon, he iis the seventh great-grandson of Chief Pontiac. He spoke at length how the U.S. government has tried to systematically eliminate the Indian culture over the decades and he cited examples. He said his tribe isn't even recognized by the state of Michigan, which means they can't get any federal assistance. He noted that the highest participation in US military service by race are native Americans. The average native American lives below the poverty level. His tribe has signed 17 treaties with the US government and the US government has broken every one of them. As for awards, the Widetrackers did very well. I hope to have a final report sometime in July. Motor City and West Michigan members also won awards. So ends the 100th anniversary of Pontiac and the 54th POCI national convention. I'm tired....but I survived this convention better than the last one! I think I am finally caught with my posting. Next year's convention will be in Norman Oklahoma.
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Great pic's N story. As always.
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Day 5 - June 26 - Parade Day. Ugh. I took a look at Black Beauty. She runs okay except for the aforementioned electrical issues. My plan is simply. Drive in the parade today and get home before sunset. Ditto tomorrow. So that's what I did. Last day of the outdoor swap meet at the host hotel. Then it shifts to the Oakland Expo Center tomorrow. I was hoping the was a Ram Air pan for a 71-72 GTO. Nope 66-67. I loved this triple black GTO. There was no For Sale sign on it, so I am not sure if it was for sale or how much. Back to the parking lot. A rare FWD Phoenix - the Pontiac version of the Chevy Citation. My second Pontiac was a used '81 Phoenix hatchback I got in early '85. It was the worst car I ever owned. It had the Pontiac "Iron Duke" gutless 4-cylinder (often called the Iron Puke). The floor boards were already rust through (I patched with aluminuim siding), and the classic X-body / X-brake problem. It was while driving this POS that I ordered Black Beauty. BB arrived in late November '85 and my Phoenix was G-O-N-E! I had a brief window to run to the Oakland Expo Center to look at the Points Judged cars before having to come back to host my GMC chapter meeting and then run to the parade marshalling area. This is where the Points Judged (inside), and Popular Vote and Road Warriors (outside) will be held. Every car in here is gorgeous. Both Big Waumpam and the Untamed Tiger are both owned by fellow Widetracker, Jeff Bourcier. More race cars..... For the first time in 58 years, since the TV show ended, Monkeemobile #1 and #2 are together again! Monkeemobile #1 - this is the car that Geore Barris bought and updated after the show. Mel Guthrie of Livonia Michigan now owns it. Monkeemobile #2 - now owned by Tony Rota in New Jersey. This is the one that was left in Australia, found it's way to Puerto RIco and used as an airport car, and then purchased and restored. More on them later. Coach Reeves car from the movie "Slapshot". Paul Newman actually tried to buy this car after the movie. A nice Hansen Brother's towel is on the front seat. The XXX GTO! The '69 GTO from "The Last Ride" with Dennis Quaid An actual Rockford Files Firebird I shot back to the hotel to host my GMC chapter meeting and then I was off to the parade marshalling area. John Z DeLorean and Widetracker's president Tim Mays. Time to start lining up the cars! This is a Michigan-based Roadkill inspired '72 Lemans Sport convertible. I ran into this guy on Power Tour a couple of years ago. My name and car is on his hood tach - right next to David Freiburgers! This Fiero is a Woodward regular. This guy was the talk of the convention. He literally drove this '38 Pontiac from Washington State to the convention with only one problem along the way. Not a trailer queen! We had six GMC motorhomes to add to the parade too. They were once built in Pontiac at the truck assembly area. The Torrent TA Edition! LOL! Justa and Indyman show up together in Dirty Girl! I found out later that neither of them had actually signed up for the parade but since they were Widetrackers we let them in. Justa though Joe had signed up, Joe thought Justa had signed up. A classic Polish salute. Thanks guy - you made me laugh that day. I definitely needed it. OMG. Someone actually brought a BBC '69 Beaumont to the parade! A better look at the '38 from Washington. Meet our parade grand marshall.....from All Girls Garage and Garae Squad.....Miss Cristy Lee ....and me. Now the parade actually begins...... After Cristy and the mayor on Pontiac came all the Pontiac city council persons. WIdetracker Mary Woody A '26 and 2009 Sostice A rare '73 Lemans GT There goes Justa and Joe! I was also in the parade with Wayne and Lisa. I brought my Badflag.com flag poles with me. I had an America 250 flag and a flag Wayne had given me - Pontiacs Down Under.com Driving the parade route from my perspective Parade is over and we find Justa and Joe. I can't help but wonder where they stole those signs from. Online I found this drone shot of the staging area and part of the parade. Here is someone's Facebook video of the parade! https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=4647085935614098 Here is another video link I was sent. https://www.facebook.com/reel/947514705054294 Justa and Joe appear at the 7:29 mark. I am struggling to find the audio mark of Cristy announcing Joe's car. My car appears at the 9:28 mark. You can see BB with the flags and the Kiwis in tow! You can hear Cristy announcing my car at the 11:10 mark Somebody had a picture of my car as I drove by. I will post that here too once I find it. Obviously we hooked up briefly with Justa and Joe after the parade. I left Lisa and Wayne with Justa and Joe but they ended up getting a ride in Larry Crider's GTO convertible instead. I got BB back home safely well before sunset. Tomorrow is it, car show day! My volunteer work is finally and completely over. I get to enjoy the show. However, we have to be on the show field before 8 am. Ugh. Another early and long day.
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Day 4 - June 25 Day 4 - I was a free agent. I had signed up for a bus tour around the local Pontiac-Oakland-GMC area sites in the afternoon. The evening was the formal convention awards dinner/banquet. I ate with folks from the Motor City chapter and Dmitri. Widetracker's newsletter editor Dave Todd won an award. There is just one typo. Motor City is chapter 91. The Widetrackers are 16. So I turn the award upside down, it goes from 91 to 16! I told Peggy Mullinax about it and she said she would correct it the next day. The Motor City chapter won Best Junior Chapter of the Year. This a big deal. A junior chapter is a chapter with 50 or fewer members. It is essentially the things they do for their communities. Hats off to them. They are a great bunch of people! The National POCI BOard of Directors
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Day 3 - June 24 I spent most of the day working registration again. All three Michigan POCI chapters worked the convention. The West Michigan Pontiac Club manned the pre-registration and convention T-shirt tables. The Motor City group managed the hospitality suite for all the convention's volunteers, provide lunch for all of us. I greatly appreciate what they did for us. The Michigan Widetrackers were in charge of marshalling the 300+ expected cars for the parade for the original Pontiac Administration building parking lot to downtown Pontiac (.8 of a mile). Wayne and Lisa got on the tour of Frankenmuth, to shop at the Bronner's Christmas store and eat chicken downtown. Lisa showed me all the Christmas stuff she bought. I warned Wayne his credit card would be melting. I sent the picture of what Lisa bought in Frankenmuth to Kiwi. For some reason, he refuses to show them to his boss! Views of the show car lot at the hotel from the hospitality room on the 11th floor. Down in the lot itself..... This Judge belongs to a buddy from the West Michigan chapter. Going through the outdoor swap meet area.... The evening ended with a welcome party and trip to PMD Garage (a local restoration shop near the PTM) and the Treasury. It turns out that we could not go into PMD Garage, we could just use their parking lot. The Treasury is an old building with Chief Pontiac on the front and it is rather art decco on the inside. This was once a bank or government office. The Bates and me. L-R - The Aussies, Geoff and his wife, Paul Adams, POCI Convention Coordinator Larry Crider and his wife, and the Kiwis - Wayne and Lisa Bates. The DJ was trying to do his best Frank Sinatra singing Fly Me to the Moon. Outside was an Oakland The survivor. The autograph on it is hilarious! Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick! The Treasury served hors d'oeuvres of blacked shrimp, watermelon over balsamic vinaigrette, ice cream and cocktails. The ice cream and cocktails were cash bar. The food was tasty but not filling. On the way back to the host hotel, I took Wayne and Lisa to get beer that's cheaper than the hotels. So ended Day 3.
