Cruise Colfax with the Scotchman Restaurant

In the 1950's, 60's and 70's, cruising was one of the most enjoyable weekend social events for American teenagers. In Denver, Colfax Avenue was the cruise. Cruising involved cool cars, local hamburger emporiums, milk shakes and music. Cruising was a good, safe event that generated many wonderful memories. As the baby boomers got busy building their careers, cruising faded away.

The cruisers of yesteryear have reached maturity (I.E. Baby Boomers). Most of us have gray hair and get to bed much earlier than we did in the past. However, we have not lost our love of the cars and the great memories of the Saturday night cruise. We own the cars of our dreams now and have become active members of many front range car clubs. All that is missing to complete the circle is the return of the Colfax Avenue Cruise.

We believe that an opportunity has been created by the success of the Colfax Marathon to organize an afternoon/evening event that celebrates the grand days of cruising Colfax Ave.

The Cruise Colfax is to be held Saturday
9/22/2007 from 4PM to 8PM

The Cruise will be a dynamic event with the display cars cruising from event to event (Car Festivals) as the owners visit, show off their cars, eat dinner, and watch others cruise. There will be entertainment as well as food vendors and sponsors at each Festival Site. This type of cr uise (or cruise-in) has become very popular over the past few years in the Denver area. Typically a cruise is organized by a drive inn (Sonic is a good example) who would hire a disk jockey to play 60s music from 6-9 PM and advertise within the car community. A well advertised cruise can draw 200-400 classic cars. Traffic is not a problem because the cars tend to come and go at irregular intervals. The cars attracted to a cruise are vintage or classics (original 1920s -70s), street rods (modified pre 1948) and American muscle cars (1960-1974). The presence of these classic cars always creates interest and excitement among the general public and never fails to attract a large crowd of interested spectators.

This is being organized by the front range car community with the support of the Old Car Council of Colorado. The OCCC (est. 1965) is an umbrella organization composed of over fifty car clubs in Colorado with more than 3000 paid members. The purpose of the OCCC is to promo te and preserve the old car hobby in Colorado through legislative activity and the coordination of car club activities. The officers and members of the OCCC have the interest and the experience to partner with organizations involved in the development of Colfax Avenue to plan and implement the Colfax Cruise. The OCCC will actively promote the Colfax Cruise, recruit Colfax Ave. businesses to work in partnership with specific car clubs and coordinate with local and state law enforcement. We estimate that 1000 cars will attend the 1st Annual KOOL 105 Colfax Avenue Cruise & Car Festivals

Since Colfax Ave is not going to be closed for this Cruise, there is no start and end to the Cruise. It is recommended that anyone interested in seeing the cars, pick one of the Festival Sites to visit and then cruise to the other two at their own pace. Festival Sites will be located at the Super K Mart parking lot at 15200 E Colfax Ave, East High School City Park Esplanade at 2300 W C olfax Ave and the Festival Plaza parking lot at 3200 W Colfax Ave.

This years "KOOL 105 Colfax Ave Cruise and Car Festivals" is being presented by NAPA Colorado Select Auto Care Centers. It is hosted by the Old Car Council of Colorado to benefit D.A.R.E.

If there are any questions or comments, check out the web site at www.oldcarcouncil.org