This is the 11th Annual Cruzin’ Flat Rock Car & Truck Show, but our first for attending this specific event (we’re trying hard for firsts this year!).
We gave up going to the 2 regular shows (Utica’s Gasoline Alley & the Down On Main Street – Clawson Car Show) we’ve been attending year after year (on this same day) to come here instead.
[ of course, the cars on display at those 2 shows would be a lot of the same ones we’ve seen before ]
Our hopes were that there’d be plenty of cars at this Flat Rock, MI, show, and lots of stuff in attendance to our likings to make up for the (good & known) car shows we didn’t venture to this time around.
I mean, it “should” be a good show, after all, they’ve been doing it for over a decade, right? We heard it was a “big show,” but one persons definition of “big” could mean anything from 100 to 1000 cars, depending on the previous shows they’ve experienced.
Big to us means 500+ vehicles on display.
You never know if an (unknown to you) automobile event is awesome or not until you actually go to it. So that’s what we did this year.
All these auto shows being put on today are going on at the same time, and with this Flat Rock event being 45 minutes away from our home base, there was no way we’d be able to go to any of the others as well as this one (we aren’t early-risers, so a decision needed to be made).
[ the 2 events we missed are relatively nearby to each other, so it was easy attending both of those on the same day ]
Was it a good choice on our part to cruise to this one instead of our normal outings?
We discovered some GM G-body vehicles (our cars of choice), and lots of new hot rods we never saw before (always a good thing), plus checked out HuRoc Park somewhat.
Going inside the Train Depot Museum (on the same street as this event), (which we initially thought it would be mostly about “real” trains) was pretty neat. It’s filled with scale (HO & bigger sizes) toy trains running on multiple tracks, there’s more than a dozen different trains circling the huge display on the inside of the room where they’re housed. Memorabilia fills display cases underneath the train track surface. There’s TONS of little collectible cars, trucks, and misc. scenery and things in their awesome display. We’re not real big fans of the train hobby, but this setup and whatnot they had there, made us go “wow!”
There were a few hundred cars here scattered down the street (roughly about the same amount that would have been at the Clawson event).
So, overall, it was a good tradeoff attending this car show.
We’ll have to flip a coin next year to see which ones we’ll go back to.
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