GM Parade Celebrates a 100-year History
Al Smith spent the last 12 years filling in the shell of his cherry-red 1957 2-door Chevrolet Bel Air.
And today, it became a part of history, driving in a parade of 100 General Motors Corp. vehicles to celebrate the automaker’s 100-year history at the Woodward Dream Cruise.
“These cars are automotive art,” said Smith, whose wife is a financial manager at GM, which was founded almost 100 years ago – on Sept. 16, 1906.
GM put out a call to employees and retirees for their own stories about their GM vehicles – vintage and modern – to select the cars and pickups that would take to Woodward Avenue for the GM Century Cruise.
At 7:30 this morning those 100 vehicles revved and rumbled from a parking lot just outside GM’s headquarters at the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit up Woodward Avenue to the Athens Coney Island in Royal Oak.
People who showed up along Woodward to watch the parade of GM vehicles – as well as those just waiting for a bus – waved or snapped pictures...
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And today, it became a part of history, driving in a parade of 100 General Motors Corp. vehicles to celebrate the automaker’s 100-year history at the Woodward Dream Cruise.
“These cars are automotive art,” said Smith, whose wife is a financial manager at GM, which was founded almost 100 years ago – on Sept. 16, 1906.
GM put out a call to employees and retirees for their own stories about their GM vehicles – vintage and modern – to select the cars and pickups that would take to Woodward Avenue for the GM Century Cruise.
At 7:30 this morning those 100 vehicles revved and rumbled from a parking lot just outside GM’s headquarters at the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit up Woodward Avenue to the Athens Coney Island in Royal Oak.
People who showed up along Woodward to watch the parade of GM vehicles – as well as those just waiting for a bus – waved or snapped pictures...