Rangers at the Woodward Dream Cruise

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There were a few Rangers represented in Mustang Alley at today’s Woodward Dream Cruise. I did my best to capture each one I saw – plus mine at the end!

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Very nice...I left yesterday and of the hundreds of miles I looped Woodward since Monday till yesterday, I saw ONE new Ranger cruising and it was stock...two total if you count all of the metro area I cruised around:crazy:
 

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Very nice...I left yesterday and of the hundreds of miles I looped Woodward since Monday till yesterday, I saw ONE new Ranger cruising and it was stock...two total if you count all of the metro area I cruised around:crazy:
I commute from the west side (Ypsilanti to Dearborn), I'd save over the past 2-3 weeks I've been seeing ~12 or so a day. Definitely more and more of them out there all the time, although probably skewed by all of us Ford employees who've jumped aboard lol
 

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I'm only about 2.5 hours from Detroit. One of these days I'll make it up to check it out.
 


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Proof I was there:like:
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Sid, Your Ranger looks like a baby in that picture. You need to do a side by side comparison shot now that it's all grown up. ? :giggle:
 

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:facepalm: I totally forgot about that one.
HI Dave,

Was in Michigan in Troy for 2 weeks. Margie and I drove our rental car up and down Woodward, the first paved road in the USA back in the day...MIchigan 1 highway to our favorite restaurants on Woodward including Krusin' Muer Seafood Restaurant. Our handicapped Daughter always goes to the Dream Curise to see the "old cars". Margie and I have ridden and drove in the Dream Cruise over the years. Very cool!
 

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Hi Folks,

Woodward is on a weird angle relative to North/South. Reason is that the original planners designed Detroit with spokes out from a hub...

Who is Woodward:

Woodward was born Elias Brevoort Woodward in 1774 to an affluent family in Manhattan. A Columbia graduate, he served as a Washington city councilman, and Michigan’s Territory’s first Chief Justice. Later, he became one of the first judges appointed to the Michigan area in 1805. Historically, he became one of the most influential men of that era. Woodward arrived in Detroit shortly after the 1805, during the period when the city was in ruins from the devastating fire. At this time, few buildings were left standing. After careful consideration, Woodward chose to adopt the hub-and-spoke design in order to competently reconstruct the city of Detroit.

The Theory Behind Detroit's Street Design:

The hub-and-spoke configuration, designed by Pierre Charles L’Enfant, was meant to create a hexagonal shape with a park in the middle. Additional hexagons were implemented, and as the city grew larger, the streets formed circuses. The city of Detroit has a very unique street layout, and because of it, visitors may frequently lose a sense of direction. Unlike the structure of any other major cities, the hexagonal street blocks and a Grand Circus at its center make the city of Detroit unique. This formation also facilitates traffic flow through the landscaped city blocks.

A Deviation From Plan:

The plan was abandoned after only 11 years, but not before some of its most significant elements had already been implemented. The most prominent of these are the six main "spokes" of Woodward, Michigan, Grand River, Gratiot and Jefferson avenues together with Fort Street. Because Woodward had been thoroughly impressed by Pierre L'Enfant's elegant plan for the streets of Washington, he comparatively sketched a similar plan for Detroit. The remnants of this blueprint are still visible in the city's six great spoke-like avenues—Jefferson (named for Woodward's hero), Gratiot, Grand River, Michigan, Fort, and—that's right—Woodward Avenue.
 

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Thanks Phil for the history lesson. You are a shrine of knowledge. :like:
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