More from Friday at M1.....

Ray Giolitta's '69 GTO Judge. He ended winning his class. I've drolled over this car for years.

Tri-power Caddy convertible with fins? Yes please!

'54 Corvette

'57 Corvette

Interesting firewall patch job. All old Michigan license plates.

Supercar Time!

Not sure why this Prowler was with the Supercars. Ah well.

The Mercedes Benz gull wing AMG is an awesome throw back to the original gull wing.

Definitely a WWII Jeep is a supercar, in a class of it's own.

Here is the Jag we saw earlier.

The gas station at M1, where you can get race fuel. Almost looks like this is out of a post card.

Who you gonna call in Northern Michigan?

Careful with that proton pack!

An OHC 6 powered Lemans or Tempest.

We had a visitor from nearby Willow Run Airport......Willow Run was where Ford built a massive assembly complex at the back end of Willow Run airport during WWII to build B-24 Liberators (twin tail bombers). One of the last remaining buildings from that complex is home to the Yankee Air Force.

From the Yankee Air Force, this is a restored B-17F called the "Yankee Lady". It did NOT see action overseas. It was built near the end of the war. After the war, it was converted to fire fighting. The Yankee Air Force had to do a complete nut and bolt restoration on this plane. I remember my dad and I seeing this plane just before it got it's airworthiness certification from the FAA. They were installing the belly ball turret. They had a hard time getting one. What few are left, no one wants to sell. This one came from Hollywood. This is the ball turret that was used in the movie "Memphis Belle".

According to Google, there are approximately 45 B-17s in the world that are in complete form. Only 10 or less are in flying condition. This was a rare treat indeed. I apologize in advance for some of the quality of the photos. The photos were taken from quite a distance in some cases, and then I had to digitally enlarged the photo to get a close up on the Yankee Lady.

Enjoy.....I did.

https://yankeeairmuseum.org/

https://yankeeairmuseum.org/aircraft-collection/

 

One of the coolest things about the Yankee Air Museum is that you can pay to take a joy ride in one of their birds. It's not exactly cheap but it would be a very cool once-in-a-lifetime experience.

 

Photos from their website....

Back to the car show at M1.....

Nice Firehawk

This guy had a Knight Rider light bar imbedded in front of the hood latch.

When was the last time you saw a complete Mustang II King Cobra?

I love this shade of blue on these Mach Is.

Plum Crazy - for Kiwi

Not very often you see a 80-81 turbo Trans Am still with the original turbo 301 in it. As pretty as this car was, this guy had engine trouble most of the day. He and two other buddies were working on the carb for the longest time. Interesting color too, not a color I am familiar with.

This supercharged 3800 Grand Prix belongs to another Widetracker, Mike and Mary Woody. I found out later that they won an award for their class. Very cool!

 

I went inside the main building to use the restroom. I found the Ramchargers presentation had started. There were a collection of the Ramchargers old cars along with the living members of the original Ramchargers drag team. The Ramchargers were Chrysler engineers who wanted to go drag racing in the early 60s. Mopar had no form race teams. They spent their own time and money to build cars and go fast. Their success eventually lead to Mopar performance parts and teams being developed.

This is High and Mighty II. An exact re-creation of the original Ramchargers car, the High and Mighty, a '59 Plymouth. The original car was involved in an accident in the 60s and destroyed. This car is a replacement car with many parts salvaged from the original High and Mighty.

 

Here is "The Silver Bullet", a literal race car that Chrysler put on the street. This is one of the Kings of Woodward. It is rumored to have never lost a street race.

This year is the 70th anniversary of the Corvette. So there were some experimental Corvettes on display as well.

The Mako Shark

A rear engine concept called the Aerovette.

The concept Stingray, which led to GM bringing back the Stingray name.

CERV -II - looks like an Indy race car

How about a real Sox and Martin car, driven by Ronnie SIx - "Mister Four Speed"?

Last of the car show photos.

You can see from this photo how those of us parked against the tires had virtually no room to put up a canopy.

The Pontiac Transportation Museum was there and brought this great looking Pontiac and the Fiero.

This car won the Fiero class BTW.

I think this would bring back memories for Dual Quad Pete.

After the car show, I headed down Woodward, in search of my annual sign souvenir. I made it to 12 Mile, at the Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church parking lot, and then bailed out due to dense traffic on northbound Woodward.

This is the building just outside the M1 Concourse - Gate 4. GM created GMC from Rapid and Reliance trucks. This is the only remaining Rapid building left. The rest were on the site of the M1 Concourse. GM torn down those buildings to build the GM facilities that once stood here. M1 torn down the GM complex to build it's facilities.

 

Now on Woodward

Corvettes on display in the Chevrolet display area.

Nick's Coney Island, between 14 and 13 Mile. Last time I was here, I was watching "The Reflections" (Just Like Romeo and Juliet) perform in the parking lot, courtesy of the Detroit area Buick dealers.

Duggan's is pretty much party central and ground zero for the Dream Cruise.

Stellanis (a.k.a Chrysler) HQ from I-75. I'm heading home at this point for the day.

 

justA soooooooo cool 

 

this is where JustA should be taking us all for our beers !!

I’m down for that. Cold free beer is the best!

5 hours ago, Frosty said:

I’m down for that. Cold free beer is the best!

my favourite four letter words !!! cold free beer !

 

On 8/28/2023 at 8:21 AM, Frosty said:

 

Some how I get the impression that you think that is a bad thing!

38 minutes ago, Frosty said:

Some how I get the impression that you think that is a bad thing!

Justa came up in meme's I posted in Don't ever grow up.

Yall did an amazing job with the pictures and commentary, as always! Thanks guys!