Cruising Gratiot Ave. Detroit MI

[Phil]

Took a few truck pics with you guys in mind


Michigan is nuts



FS












Nice resto














Triumph



all original





Marlin



hideous chopped Fury





VERY nice car





Sunbeam



All the sweet Mopars are in Detroit




Guy with the little blue Uni owns this 351C car. Got his # this year






the rest...

Yeah there are some pics for my ricer buddies in there too

http://s295.photobucket.com/albums/mm16 ... /?start=20

[Johnny Canuck]

[quote="Phil"]
all original





Funny I saw this exact same truck in black in Medicine hat yesterday, all original too. Never noticed that style of chrome down the sides before, must be rare and hard to replace. His even had stock wheels.


and that 'A' Highboy with a stock engine is just priceless. I had to not take pics of probably a dozen Fords yesterday, because their owners weren't as bright a bulbs as this guy

[ICEMAN6166]

pretty sure thats trim was only on the ranger xlts.
one of the 65 beds i have has that same bump tailgate on it , only seen a few like it.

we really like the dodge power wagon.

[36truck]

Somebody really killed the Bronco. Lots of sharp cars there.

[cavinandpavin]

that high boy is way cool. and the engine choice is great i hate walkin up on nice rods at the shows and seeing the same ol' same ol' 350 mill in there. and how long did you hafta look to spot a gloden hawk that appeared to be nicely restored?dont see them every day.

[Uncle Skip]

I've been a gearhead for more years than I can or care to remember. I bought my first Hot Rod Magazine in 1957.
But in all those years, reading about cruising in Detroit and down Gratiot Ave. in particular, I have never heard anyone pronounce the word
"Gratiot".
Would you please explain the right way to say it for me
Thank you.
Uncle Skip

[ICEMAN6166]

Detroit and those French names
Grashit.

[gearhead21]

Back in the late 60's, the first time I called them to order parts they answered the phone with a loud and hardy "GRAYSHIT". I just hung up, thinking I had the wrong number. After checking and carefully calling back, I realized I must have got the right place.

I still have the NOS 67 dual quad manifold (C7ZX I think) and carbs I got from them, and never used.

[Johnny Canuck]

Them Michiginners can make their own word out of dang near anything. Yoopers and Trolls and Macinaw and Stahp.


Like Stahp for a pahp before the Cahp catches you LOL

not sure how they get that pronunciation out of Grat toyt tho...