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Posted by kingroy (Member # 7736) on :
 
In my neigborhood the strip has been increasingly dying every year for at least the past 3 years. I remember driving the strip from 1998-2004 and I was guaranteed to run across a car full of females or another muscle car that was willing to race by the time I completed my loop. It didn't matter what time of day or night, the strip used to be crackin. Now, I can't even find a scrapper on the strip to leave in a cloud of smoke. It's not like there's more police. It's like there's less people. I guess, higher gas prices and now this recession got folks thinking twice about cruising for no reason.

What's the strip like your neighborhood? Is it the same as it was 5 years ago, or does your strip seem to be dying off too.

Also, post the strip you used to or still cruise on.

Oakland:
Durant to High St between Mac, Foothill and Bancroft.

San Jose:
Santa Clara downtown San Jose. I stopped cruising this one in 2003. Reason being, got too crowded, felt more like traffic, plus too many police.

[ July 25, 2010, 08:15 PM: Message edited by: kingroy ]
 
Posted by 306Coupe (Member # 4988) on :
 
What do you know about the strip? lol
 
Posted by built95faleen (Member # 8828) on :
 
i hear ya man. a few friends and i would take our cars to modesto and drive up and down mchenry ave. we went about two years ago and saw vette clubs and rolled with about 20 other stangs. we saw a ton ls powered gms as well. went down in my 96 cobra about a month or two ago and saw one scrapper and a small gang of 4 civics. it was pretty sad
 
Posted by kingroy (Member # 7736) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by 306Coupe:
What do you know about the strip? lol
lol. you know I know what's up about the strip. We used to ride that thing together when you had the 79 pace car and the 84 vette.
 
Posted by kingroy (Member # 7736) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by built95faleen:
i hear ya man. a few friends and i would take our cars to modesto and drive up and down mchenry ave. we went about two years ago and saw vette clubs and rolled with about 20 other stangs. we saw a ton ls powered gms as well. went down in my 96 cobra about a month or two ago and saw one scrapper and a small gang of 4 civics. it was pretty sad
yeah, I did the Mchenry thing one time a couple of years ago. I saw a dude getting seached and held up by like 3 or 4 police cars at the gas station and at the same time and high speed chase with a helicopter and another group of police cars chasing went by on the freeway. For that split moment I had to ask myself where was I? lol
 
Posted by svfreerider87 (Member # 5748) on :
 
I used to hit up lawrence and el camoino starbucks in sunnyvale, sometimes mccarthy ranch, or the In N Out on the eastside, man I miss lining 'em up on bailey. The muscle car scene around here is super dead, nothing like it is in the eastbay/peninsula area.
 
Posted by 94 N.C.F. GT (Member # 3946) on :
 
Same here strip is dead used to be crackin every weekend it sucks now [Mad] [Frown]
 
Posted by kingroy (Member # 7736) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by svfreerider87:
I used to hit up lawrence and el camoino starbucks in sunnyvale, sometimes mccarthy ranch, or the In N Out on the eastside, man I miss lining 'em up on bailey. The muscle car scene around here is super dead, nothing like it is in the eastbay/peninsula area.
I didn't do too much in the penninsula, but I have been down to the In-N-Out near McCarthy Ranch. I think that was one of the 1st In-N-Outs in the Bay. But there used to be a gang of cars out there. My boy and I both had brand new 03 cobra's and we used to roll down there with a bunch of Maro's and Firebirds. Race a few times, then run from the police. lol
 
Posted by kingroy (Member # 7736) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by 94 N.C.F. GT:
Same here strip is dead used to be crackin every weekend it sucks now [Mad] [Frown]
Where did folks cruise at in Richmond?
 
Posted by svfreerider87 (Member # 5748) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by kingroy:
quote:
Originally posted by svfreerider87:
I used to hit up lawrence and el camoino starbucks in sunnyvale, sometimes mccarthy ranch, or the In N Out on the eastside, man I miss lining 'em up on bailey. The muscle car scene around here is super dead, nothing like it is in the eastbay/peninsula area.
I didn't do too much in the penninsula, but I have been down to the In-N-Out near McCarthy Ranch. I think that was one of the 1st In-N-Outs in the Bay. But there used to be a gang of cars out there. My boy and I both had brand new 03 cobra's and we used to roll down there with a bunch of Maro's and Firebirds. Race a few times, then run from the police. lol
lol ya if there's one thing about any kind of car meet/races around here the police always end up making an appearance, man I wanna get another hot rod, makes me want to cruise again.
 
Posted by 90_STANG015 (Member # 8990) on :
 
mission blvd from niles all the way to the town. i always run in to other stangs and maros often. [burnout]
 
Posted by 2Foxes2Five0Coupes (Member # 9154) on :
 
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Originally posted by 90_STANG015:
mission blvd from niles all the way to the town. i always run in to other stangs and maros often. [burnout]
This cruise on a bike is live! You see other bikes on this "strip" and you always get a peace sign or a heads up. Never rode this one in the stang. The Oakland "strip" is sorta dead to muscle cars or their owners. I watched a clean Vert stang with the top down today coming towards me {in my 50coupe) more than a block away and dude barely looked my way as if he didn't see me or he didn't know he was even in a stang.? Maybe it was a 4.6 thing vs 5.0 thing dunno. That was the only muscle car i saw on the strip today. A cat in a baby blue ls1 across from vic hubbards gave a muscle car whats up in Hayward awhile back though. You feel how live car culture is when different or similar platforms acknowledge each other.
 
Posted by kingroy (Member # 7736) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by 2Foxes2Five0Coupes:
quote:
Originally posted by 90_STANG015:
mission blvd from niles all the way to the town. i always run in to other stangs and maros often. [burnout]
This cruise on a bike is live! You see other bikes on this "strip" and you always get a peace sign or a heads up. Never rode this one in the stang. The Oakland "strip" is sorta dead to muscle cars or their owners. I watched a clean Vert stang with the top down today coming towards me {in my 50coupe) more than a block away and dude barely looked my way as if he didn't see me or he didn't know he was even in a stang.? Maybe it was a 4.6 thing vs 5.0 thing dunno. That was the only muscle car i saw on the strip today. A cat in a baby blue ls1 across from vic hubbards gave a muscle car whats up in Hayward awhile back though. You feel how live car culture is when different or similar platforms acknowledge each other.
was this on 98th and Mac? If so, that was me. lol. I looked your way as you turned your head back the other way if that was you. lol. Nice 50 btw.
 
Posted by kingroy (Member # 7736) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by 90_STANG015:
mission blvd from niles all the way to the town. i always run in to other stangs and maros often. [burnout]
I've never done the whole route. I used to go from jackson to stevenson when I worked in fremont, I used to see svtmach all the time coming back from work. I'ma give this one a try one weekend when I'm bored.
 
Posted by Nastysvt (Member # 6431) on :
 
Hesperian Blvd. FTW!! [burnout]
 
Posted by Yaterstang (Member # 7659) on :
 
Most people don't want to deal with this, -
 
Posted by 90_STANG015 (Member # 8990) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by kingroy:
quote:
Originally posted by 90_STANG015:
mission blvd from niles all the way to the town. i always run in to other stangs and maros often. [burnout]
I've never done the whole route. I used to go from jackson to stevenson when I worked in fremont, I used to see svtmach all the time coming back from work. I'ma give this one a try one weekend when I'm bored.
ya on the weekends you can run into alot of people. i drive my drop top on the weekends an always drive mission blvd from the fremont area to oakland/san leandro. most the time i jus drive through hayward though just to drive. KELLY HILL, HESPERION, TENNYSON, AST, FOOTHILL BLVD.... i always run into other mustangs and camaros. all years [patriot]
Songs i listen to with the top down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Tv9uM0Ups
[burnout] [burnout] [burnout] [worship] [burnout]
 
Posted by blkfoxbody89 (Member # 8361) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Yaterstang:
Most people don't want to deal with this, -
Yeah that was a fun night.. blocked in by 3 sherrif and a chp. atleast they didn't follow through with their threats of towing the cars with illegal mods..
 
Posted by Yaterstang (Member # 7659) on :
 
Or putting us in jail for treaspassing. They hated but at least nothing happened to anybody.
 
Posted by blown95svt (Member # 8893) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Yaterstang:
Or putting us in jail for treaspassing. They hated but at least nothing happened to anybody.
where and when was this? i couldnt imagine getting pulled over in my car, they would freak!
 




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