Midland Cruise – n Car Showcase shifts site, time – Midland Daily News
Midland Cruise ‘n Car Demonstrate shifts site, time
Midland Daily News
Updated Ten:11 am, Friday, September 1, two thousand seventeen
Volunteers are completing prep for the 28th annual Midland Cruise ‘n Car Demonstrate Sept. 16-17.
The continuing downtown streetscape work led to these switches:
• The Cruise ‘n Car Demonstrate will be a Saturday and Sunday event instead of the traditional Friday and Saturday event.
• The car cruise parade and Cruisers Ball dance kicking off the entertainment will commence earlier than in the past.
• Some switches will be made in the cruise route.
• Car and truck paramours will view the parked vehicles near Farmers Market instead of on Main Street.
The cruise parade, dance and informal display of parked cruisers will be Saturday, Sept. 16. Cars likely will commence forming up near Farmers Market at three p.m. for the rescheduled five p.m. cruise.
Drivers will get cruise route maps near Farmers Market. A news release for spectators about the route is planned after the route is confirmed.
There’s no charge to be in the cruise or to witness it. Two “best cruiser” awards sponsored by the Fine Lakes Loons will be introduced at the Cruisers Ball.
The traditional after-cruise dance also is a free event. It will be from six to eight p.m. at the Farmers Market, with oldies music by the Doo-Wop DJ’s.
Also at Farmers Market the next day — Sunday, Sept. Seventeen — will be the judged car showcase and more oldies music, Hula Hooping, dance routines and trivia contests by the Doo-Wop DJ’s. Showcase cars owners pay $Ten to pre-register a vehicle before the Sunday event or $15 to register at the gate on Sunday.
The event’s planning committee of volunteers approved the scheduling and site switches because downtown streetscape work is expected to make enough Main Street parking spaces temporarily unavailable.
In past years about two hundred cruisers and showcase vehicles have participated. The event has attracted hot rods, street machines, customs, antiques, trucks and motorcycles.
The Northern Starlet, a trackless train operated by Education & Training Connection, will be displayed Sunday, Sept. 17, from nine a.m. to four p.m. Rails won’t be given, but children will be welcome to climb aboard.
Lou E. Loon, mascot of the Good Lakes Loons baseball team, is scheduled to be the cruise’s grand marshal.
For the Sunday car display, more than eighty merchants are sponsoring hand-crafted trophies to be awarded commencing at about three p.m.
Trophies are awarded in such categories as convertible, custom-made, pro street, hot rod, truck, detailed vehicle, and various brands. Design of the trophies is different each year. Also different each year is Richard Beehr’s design of the event’s T-shirt and dash plaque.
On this year’s T-shirts — to be sold during the event — and dashboard plaques is Dave Vouaux’s one thousand nine hundred forty Chevrolet pickup. The vehicle was named Best of Display last year.
The Best in Demonstrate vehicle’s proprietor receives a hand-crafted trophy, sponsored by Pizza Sam’s, and a getaway weekend for two at The H Hotel.
Again this year, a classic car cut out will be available for photo opportunities. Donations for those photo opportunities and for popcorn and bottled water will help Midland County Children’s Special Health Care Services provide unique equipment and services for chronically ill children.
Food vendors are scheduled to be on palm.
Richard Beehr and Renie Ker — two of the Cruise ‘n Car Demonstrate’s original planners — proceed serving on the event’s planning committee of volunteers.
