[puppetshow]

when I was 17-19 used to cruise Gratiot alllllll the time-

my favorite thing was to do a chinese firedrill-

I used to be into hot rods-
could indentify makes, models, yr built, etc.....

boy this brings back some memories

now that I think about it.......did some real STUPID things too

Like ride on Ninja's with men I didn't even know ?????

Glad I'm smarter now

 

[Ladybug]

Convincor and I used to cruise Gratiot when I first moved here almost 10 years ago. Convincor had this black van - cargo van, and he put this wall of speakers in it. There must've been 25 speakers in the wall. You could hear us coming 4 miles down the road. About the only music we listened to was 80-90's heavy metal. Yeah, yeah there might've been a little mullet, but he was soo cute!

 

[RED HOT ONE]

I too used to be a Gratiot Hound...Every Fri.and Sat. nite

Always was draggin my `71 Buick Riviera....With the Diamond back.....God I miss that car !!!!!!

 

[puppetshow]

QUOTE(Ladybug @ Jan 10 2004, 09:34 PM)Convincor and I used to cruise Gratiot when I first moved here almost 10 years ago. Convincor had this black van - cargo van, and he put this wall of speakers in it. There must've been 25 speakers in the wall. You could hear us coming 4 miles down the road. About the only music we listened to was 80-90's heavy metal. Yeah, yeah there might've been a little mullet, but he was soo cute!
I just had a visual of convincer with a mullet

 

[HazyMemory]

every day -- now that is

then, yea quite frequently in my 64Chevelle or daves '73Charger or even J's 77Lincoln. Out till 4 am.

 

[PyrateJim]

Me and my best friend used to cruise Gratiot in the early/mid 80's. We had a blast. Picked up some pretty nice girls at the same time.. Actually got a pretty scary story about a girl I dated from a cruise.

Dave and I were cruising one summer night in '83 when we met two great girls in a pink caddy. Dave hooked up with the driver, Marcia and I with the passenger, Sheryl. We dated for awhile, but because of where we lived and schedules, it just didnt work out. We felt a strange connection, but it wasnt so much love or anything like that.

Move ahead to April 1985. I meet my birth mom and her husband for the first time. I was adopted when I was only 3 weeks old and had looked on and off for several years to find my biological mother. After we meet, she took me over to their house to meet the rest of my "natural family" and there she was, Sheryl, my ex-girlfriend. Turns out she is my sister. This was one time I was glad the relationship never turned into a romantic one.

Cruising Gratiot was great, you just have to watch out in some situations.

 

[GaryDebs]

QUOTE(puppetshow @ Jan 10 2004, 09:36 PM)QUOTE(Ladybug @ Jan 10 2004, 09:34 PM) Convincor and I used to cruise Gratiot when I first moved here almost 10 years ago. Convincor had this black van - cargo van, and he put this wall of speakers in it. There must've been 25 speakers in the wall. You could hear us coming 4 miles down the road. About the only music we listened to was 80-90's heavy metal. Yeah, yeah there might've been a little mullet, but he was soo cute!
I just had a visual of convincer with a mullet

OMG the visual...sorry bill but that's fricken funny...and you know it's true

hey I had hair then....

J/K...btw that's just-kidding in a humorous way...(I know bill and we would be toasting ar socialling to that)

Bring good memories PS!

Lotta good memories....

But the last was two idoits flying by us...I was in the middle lane.. they past and they met...they crashed into each other(nice cars too) they were like @*()$%&*#)...Gratiot is not what it used to be <_<

It was all about the love

 

[MaryJane]

every friday night after i turned 16...lol...
i usually had my car (1986 buick skylark LOL) but sometimes my dad let me borrow his corvette

1977 stingray..yea i was a [email protected]

 

[Pandora]

great times on gratiot, had lots of fun there. we used to cruise till we would just turn around at 10 and 12 mile. we were part of the die hard crew. how many times were you thrown out of the quarter car wash across from speedway??? good old days baby...

 

[Pandora]

picture hammer cruising in his IROC, all i can hear is nanananananana You can't touch this......

 

[Pandora]

only 7000 miles thats a bad a$$ car...

 

[Pandora]

here is a picture of a guys car that was the fastest cruiser. that car was street legal.

 

[Pandora]

he was helping us to build my drag car. this way his last ride in that or any car. except for the hearse. he was a great guy. died with the world record in both et and mph...

 

[hammer]

Very funny Dave!

(looks like the car though. )

I used to cruise Gratiot 2-3 times a week. Had a red camaro in '77 and in '78 I had a midnight blue '73 Vette. Built the motor, trans, and put in a gear. Was in HUNDREDS of races over the years and never got caught. Those were definately the days. I used to cruise with guys like 'Hitman' and Corky from Corky's competition down on schoenherr by 8 mile.

 

[TheWiz]

Yeah, I used to love Cruisin... From the time I was 16 till maybe 22 or 23... Cars I had over those years were. 76 Malibu, 67 Camero, 68 Cutlass Convertible (2 of them), 79 Camero, 70 Corvette...

 

[Pandora]

hey hammer you mean the black guy they called hitman with the brown monza?

 

[hammer]

QUOTE(Pandora @ Jan 11 2004, 01:34 PM)hey hammer you mean the black guy they called hitman with the brown monza?
No. Bob Johnson with the GTO. BAD ARSE!! He's in jail for life for drugs now. I used to race him on 8 mile when we met at Corky's. I had an 11-1/2 to 1, 350 built in a 79 Z28 and he had an 82 Z28 with a 400 internally balanced to look like the original 305. We burned a lot of rubber on that road.

 

[Pandora]

oh, ok i know the car. the engine from that car ended up in a pearl white trans am. a guy, chris, bought it from him. he owned some kind of a car stereo place.

 

[surfergirlck]

pyrate jim, that is one unbelievably hilarous story!!!

and picturing convincor with a mullet?

hee hee!

i just learned that fat cat met his wife, head banging girl, while they were cruisin gratiot! that was a cute story! i'll let her tell it.

i remember cruisin a couple times. once i got to ride in a lotus. NICE! the first time i cruised i think i was 14 and my friend at the time (stacy capron) had her older sister take us... too funny! she picked up guys and me and stacy were like

. i mean, here we are in these cool headbands and down jackets in like, what? 7th grade? 8th grade? lmao!!! it was the first time i smelled pot and i remember thinking it smelled like bananas.

wild woodys still has car shows on sundays from may to oct... AWESOME rides in that show! ahh, memories...

 

[ThreeCrabs]

QUOTE(PyrateJim @ Jan 10 2004, 09:50 PM)Dave and I were cruising one summer night in '83 when we met two great girls in a pink caddy. Dave hooked up with the driver, Marcia and I with the passenger, Sheryl.
And you guys laugh at soap operas?!

What are the odds?