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Bring the Family
Checking under the hood
August 30, 2008
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Who: Living/Arts staffer June Wulff and her son, Cameron, 18
What: "Cruisin' to the Tree" car show (Wednesdays from 4:30-8 p.m. April-October, weather permitting. www.cruisinthetree.com)
Where: Behind the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers
Cars have been driving my son wild since he converted the den floor into a Matchbox raceway and spent hours vrooming his tiny cars around the room. Next came navigating remote-control vehicles, driving a battery-powered Jeep on the sidewalk, and moving our cars back and forth in the driveway. Cam first's real car was a
I couldn't decide where to start - all that shiny chrome under the raised car hoods put me in a daze. So I wandered around ooing and aahing over a turquoise 1959 Cadillac with fins that could have been in an aquarium, a Plymouth Prowler (they stopped making this car - something about wheels falling off), and a
I was getting my Cars 101 lesson from Cam when a voice came out of nowhere: "I'm calling my single girlfriends to come down." It was a country singer announcing a ladies choice dance. All around us, families picnicked under trees, couples sat in canvas chairs next to their vehicles, and car lovers stared at engines so clean you could eat off them.
After the show, we found a warning ticket on Cam's windshield for parking on the grass. [June Wulff]
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