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Birmingham streets host stuff that dream cruises are made of |
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Written by Admin
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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BIRMINGHAM, Mich. -- The elegant streets of Birmingham, including Old Woodward, were populated by cliques on August 18. There were clusters of Rolls-Royces, gaggles of MGs and Austin-Healeys, groups of American Motors products and whole blocks lined with beautiful Ford Motor Company cars and trucks.Parked beside a late-'30s Cadillac LaSalle was the spotless 1948 Pontiac Streamliner belonging to Dave and Carol Scheutz. The Royal Oak couple bought it back in 1989. "It ran and it was all there, though some parts were on the car seats," Dave Scheutz said. "I got it at a sale at the Fair Grounds." Operating without a shop manual added to the challenges of wiring the Pontiac and working on the engine, now a newer Pontiac V-8 coupled to a Hydramatic automatic transmission, he said. The perfect and abundant chrome on the rich, black coupe gleamed in the morning sun on a Woodward Dream Cruise Saturday so cool that it had onlookers wearing sweaters and buying coffee from a Starbucks caravan.
A couple of blocks away and parked with other American Motors products, Terry Weiner's 1971 Javelin AMX stood ready for inspection. The Chicago resident trailered his AMX to Detroit for his second Dream Cruise. "I'm the original owner," said Weiner, who purchased the car new from Brown's Auto in metro Chicago well over 30 years ago. He had the burnished brown metallic AMX restored in 2002. "We were in the Berkley cruise last night and really enjoyed it," said Weiner, adding that American Motors built only 2,054 Javelin AMXs for 1971.
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