Detroit is now part of the largely suburban Woodward Dream Cruise. The
details of the city's involvement still need some fleshing out,
however, but what is known is that Detroit will be a hotbed of activity
and events promoting not only the Cruise but GM and Model T's
centennial and the Grand Prix.
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The festival, while not adding Detroit as an official Dream Cruise
city, will finally link it to the vastly popular but utterly suburban
Dream Cruise, which draws 1.2 million spectators and 40,000 classic
cars to Oakland County to celebrate the automotive nostalgia of the
1950s and '60s.
The slate of events, organized with the help of
Chris Ilitch of Ilitch Holdings Inc. and a federally funded agency,
indicates that though official Woodward Dream Cruise organizers are not
interested in extending the official cruise route south of Eight Mile,
the Motor City this year will be a major epicenter for the first time
in the annual August phenomenon.
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