Lombard Cruise Night 7-14-2012 post

I had some trouble with the website very late last night but all is now well. Here is a teaser photo gallery of images from a wonderful night of hot cars and great oldies music by The Sting Rays.

My custom is to shoot a panorama as panning individual shots and stitch them together in Photoshop. However, the big pink Caddy is ‘made to order’ for a WIDE image!

My photo gallery for the event is online now at this link.

Read on for music on YouTube covered by The Sting Rays.

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Riverside Cruise Night July 12, 2012 post

I keep missing Riverside’s Cruise Night so this was my first. This second third Riverside Cruise Night of the 2012 summer was a great one. There were quite a number of muscle cars: Camaros, Mustangs and Firebird (s?). I can’t possibly list all the cars (you’ll see the pictures) but let me note a red four seater Ford Thunderbird (1958) and 1955 Ford Thunderbird (black) and a 1957 Ford Thunderbird (white); and two 1960s Corvette’s. Also there were Ford Mustangs – 1965 [owned by Carol and Jim, 1966 and 1967 (hatchback).

I apologize I don’t have more pictures on-line yet; as of 29 July 2012 I have over 1,000 images to edit and process! The photo gallery for July 12, 2012 Riverside Cruise Night is now online (a/o August 2, 2012) at this page.

I saw Mike, ’65 Impala Super Sport, Rich ’56 Oldsmobile 88 (although he brought his 2010 Camaro to this even), Don with his ’26 Ford T-model and Trent with his ’36 Ford Club Cabriolet.

1964 Chevrolet Corvair

1964 Chevrolet Corvair

For this show, I chose to tell a story about unique ‘One Owner’, car .. a burgandy 1964 Chevrolet Corvair of my generation; which was ‘Unsafe At Any Speed‘ which has had only one owner!.

Please read on for the story and pictures and some of the music we heard.

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Forest Park Cruise Night 7-10-2012 post

Very pleasant weather for the second week of July Cruise Night in Downtown Forest Park. The lot at Constitution court filled up late.

My ‘story’ from this show is about Don Carter’s 1926 Model T Ford. In a 2010 Veteran’s Day 2010 video interview with Don at Scoville Park, he said “my only [WWII) service outside this country was in Texas” and see videos of songs covered by the band Smith & McMahon.

The gallery of my event photos is here.

Please read on to learn about Don and his ‘T” and listen to YouTube videos of some songs that Smith and McMahon covered.

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Ersatz Lombard Cruise Night 7-7-2012, but wait, there was no Cruise Night post

As the weather was sweltering all 4th of July week and I didn’t venture out to any car shows, I so looked forward to a cooler Saturday evening so I could see some ‘hot’ cool cars. I arrived early in downtown Lombard only to find out I’d been outfoxed by the town elders.  Cruise Night was upstaged by the Taste of Lombard, which didn’t interest me; but on the way home I found Culver’s and they provided my ‘taste of Lombard’, here are my shots.

Read on to see the few cars I could shoot including a blue ’55 Buick..
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Panoramas in page/post headers and YouTube links on posts

I’m shooting specific wide angle or panorama images at each event to appear on the page or post header (like this page  and this post). Check out music on posts by clicking ‘Continue reading’.

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Lombard Cruise Night 6-30-2012 post

Great Cruise Night in Lombard with a Beatles Tribute band, The Stockwoods. Hundreds of machines lined St. Charles Road and parking lots. I make a panorama for my blog header for each event and near the bank were two good setups, the Cobras (for this post header) and four Corvettes  (for the photos page I made for this event at this link).

My June 30, 2012 Lombard Cruise Night photo gallery is now on-line at this link.

To see YouTube videos of The Beatles performing some of the songs covered by The Stockwoods, read on.

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Forest Park Cruise Night 6-26-2012 post

We had a great night for the second Cruise Night in Forest Park for the 2012 season.

  • Please click this link for my gallery of photos for this event.
1936 Ford Club Cabriolet

1936 Ford Club Cabriolet

Trent was there with his 1936 Ford Club Cabriolet; he even pointed out my tardiness in arriving.
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Westchester Cruise Night 6-25-2012 post

Joe 'Elvis' Tirrioto

Joe ‘Elvis’ Tirrioto

Joe 'Elvis' Tirrioto

Joe ‘Elvis’ Tirrioto

The weather was incredible and the parking lot was packed with classics, street rods, restorations and motorcycles. Joe “Elvis” Tirrito (his website is www.joeelvis.com) belted out Elvis tunes from 6-9PM and even made a wardrobe change between sets!!

My photo gallery from the show is here.

To see Elvis Presley’s performances of some of Joe Elvis’ covers, read on.

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Wood Dale Cruise Night 6-21- 2012 post

Dragster

Dragster

Thursday June 21st was only the third week for Cruise Nights in Wood Dale (Georgetown Square) and things were hoppin’. All of a sudden I hear the roar of this rail-job and took some photos of it (here).

Flashback 50s DJ Tony was spinning oldies from his booth made from the front of a red ’57 Chevy . Click here for a page of photos for Wood Dale on June 21, 2012.

Please read on for the YouTube videos of songs Tony played

And here is a ‘self portrait’ reflected from an Excalibur headlight.
Here are a few of the many tunes that Flashback 50’s DJ Tony played for the event.





Tony also spun the CD of Jerry Reed’s Smokey and the Bandit but I can’t find a suitable copy on YouTube. Here is another song from that 1977 movie.

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Forest Park Cruise Night 6-12-2012 post

Trent's 1936 Ford Club Cabriolet

1936 Ford Club Cabriolet

The grooving band, Smith & McMahon, helped Forest Park kick off it’s first biweekly Cruise Night for the 2012 summer season. Constitution court was about 60% full and East along Madison Street was ‘Chevy row’ with a red ’57, a red Impala, black Impala and white (with red trim) ’61 Impala.

My photo gallery of the event is here.

Read on for original artist videos of songs this band covered.

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