Jenny King / Special to The Detroit News
This factory-red-and-white 1957 Studebaker Silver Hawk belongs to Studebaker collector Scott Benson of Gilbert, Ariz.
Home for Big Mac also welcomes the hot rods
By Jenny King / Special to The Detroit News
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- While they may walk into the McDonald's at the Scottsdale Pavilions shopping complex on Indian Bend Road, car lovers here tend to avoid the drive-thru on Saturday afternoons.
Whether they are showing their own wheels or just pausing to admire the work of others, folks who show up regularly at this busy center park and stay.
On a recent sunny weekend, they were chatting with the owner of a perfect 1929 Ford Model A about how the engine was running and what problems he was trying to solve.
They gawked at the lime-green Ford hotrod with flames so realistic you either wanted to reach for a fire extinguisher or a package of hot dogs.
Fred Moorman of Chandler, Ariz., was sitting behind his white 1966 Cobra, a replica he started in 1996 and completed in 2000.
Moorman increased the size of a 302-inch small V-8 to 347 inches.
"I have 45,000 miles on it," he said.
A yellow C5 Corvette was one of at least a dozen parked at the weekly Saturday cruise-in at the Scottsdale Pavilions in February.
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A bright-red 1969 Camaro 327 owned by Mike Morrow of Mesa, Ariz., drew admirers. Morrow explained how he brought the sports coupe back from a battered car with fuchsia exterior, cracked fenders and brown-and-blue interior to its current showroom condition.
Morrow has owned the Camaro for 15 years. It's a weekend driver, he said. Occasionally he takes it for a timed run. It has done 104 miles per hour in 14.2 seconds at a drag strip, Morrow said.
Gilbert, Ariz., resident Scott Benson loves members of the extended Studebaker family: he owns a couple of Packards (1936 and 1956), an '88 Avanti, and seven Studebakers, including a '49 pickup truck.
Benson had his red-and-white 1957 Studebaker Silver Hawk with V-8 engine at the cruise-in this particular day.
The French Citroen 2CV with flat air-cooled 375-inch engine. More that 5 million were built between 1949 and 1990.
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