Anyone who lives within a 50 mile radius of Van Nuys, CA should mark their calendar for the evening of September 9th and circle it in RED! Last night's cruise up and down Van Nuys Blvd. was the single, most exciting car happening I've ever attended!
There had to be over 1,000 cars covering every genre imaginable driving up and down a 1-2 mile stretch of the boulevard and circling back for another lap. Hot cars were parked bumper to bumper on both sides of the street, and every parking lot including car dealership lots and a huge supermarket lot were full. I saw Model A Fords; T-buckets; a Lamborghini; lots of rat rods and trucks; modern muscle in the form of new Challengers, Camaros and Mustangs; lowriders galore; every make and model musclecar in every configuration imaginable; original historic drag cars; modern drag cars that couldn't possible be street-legal; motorcycles galore; and the list goes on and on.
A couple of hightlights for me: 1.) Pulling up at a redlight next to a black '68 Charger with a black tail stripe and a throbbing Hemi. That was about the baddest B-body I've ever seen, no less felt. That engine's pulse at idle had me feeling like we were experiencing a major SoCal earthquake! 2.) Pulling in to an open parking spot on the street and seeing two cops stick their heads in my open passenger side window. Was I getting a ticket or being carted off to jail? No, they just wanted to tell me how much they liked my 'Cuda. 3.) The complete sensory overload cruising up and down the street--the smell of high-octane gas and oil, the constant thumping of big cams, the sight of SO MANY hot cars!
Speaking of the sound, it might sound like I'm exaggerating, but I had planned to meet a friend, and he called me four times before I heard my cell phone ring, it was that loud!
Okay, so you're all probably wondering at this point, where are the pictures?! Ummm...there aren't any. My head was on a swivel all night, trying to get a look at the cars driving by at 30 mph. With 2-3 lanes of traffic, I just couldn't get any good shots. So that's why I said at the beginning of this post, if you live within 50 miles of Van Nuys, you owe it to yourself to be at the cruise next month!
