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Originally Posted by Mark_T
Wow - I really seem to be hitting the cultural differences here It's a basically a local carshow. Usually one car club, or sometimes an event like a local fair, will sponsor it and invite other local car clubs to attend. They can happen at parks, parking lots, exhibition grounds, etc. Everyone shines up their car and brings it out to show it off.
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Around here we call them cruises/meets/gatherings. The place I mentioned called Bart's is where one of those happened every week this summer hosted by one of the local car clubs.
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Originally Posted by Mark_T
We have a local restaurant, The Pony Corral, that sponsors one in their parking lot every Sunday night over the summer, featuring a different car group each week. The local PCA is featured at least once each summer. They have prizes, local radio stations set up camp, and it's pretty much a big tailgate party (is that another expression no-one knows?)
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There's an event called "Mark's Cruise Night" that happens every Monday over the summer and does the different car group/model thing each week, as well (Mustang night, Firebird/TA night, etc), but anything and everything shows up. The last one I went to had over 910 cars (I was 908), which blew my mind. There wasn't much grass to be seen in the field, it was pretty covered with cars.
So yeah, we know what you're talking about, at least I do, just by different names.