I agree with smorgan.  It's all about the cars and the people.  I haven't missed the official Woodward cruise since its inception back in '95.  The fun of these muscle, street and exoctic automobiles is driving them on Woodward well before the "official" event, this Saturday.  I just came back from enjoying a couple of hours of cruising Woodward, eventually parking at the Shell station, just north of 13 1/2 mile.  The owner of the station is car friendly.  Met a lot of nice people there.  Bumped into George DeLorean (brother of the famed John DeLorean, who was instrumental with putting Pontiac on the muscle car scene).  George is a down to earth car guy.  This man, back in the 80's recurved the distributor for my '65 Vette.   A real pleasure to have bumped into him tonight.

Cruise on!!

Jim