Frankfort Car Club

           IMPORTANT CHANGES FOR 2012 SEASON

     As you know, Cruisin Frankfort is a popular event each Thursday in summer- sometimes so popular it's hard to find a parking spot. Our last Cruise of 2011 was that kind of night with cars parked everywhere, and a number of attendees parked their cars in illegal spots that made access to the residences at the west end of Elwood Street impossible. While the Frankfort Police Department was exceptionally cooperative with no tickets issued or even cars asked to move, it was obvious that this was an unsafe condition as an ambulance or fire equipment would not have been able reach the homes in that area.

For 2012, the village and the FCC have revised the parking restrictions as shown below. The yellow areas are reserved for cruise night cars. The red areas are no parking zones, and will posted as such. New no parking areas are the north side of Elwood Street, and all of Elwood west of Smith St. The orange area is the paved parking lot of the Grainery, which has 5 businesses that operate during the Cruise hours; this parking lot is reserved for customers of those businesses. The blue areas are municipal public parking lots; if you arrive in your non collector car to participate as a spectator, these areas are where you can park. Streets not colored are non-designated public parking, but be mindful of driveways or any posted restrictions which may exist. Cars illegally parked are subject to ticketing. We ask for your cooperation and understanding with these changes so we can continue to host Crusin’ Frankfort in a safe and welcome manor.

            While these changes reduce the number of cruise spaces by about a dozen, the good news is the village will be adding a new 100+ space parking lot during 2012 in the space of the former Fox Lumber yard. Expected date of completion and the interaction of the lot with cruise cars has not been determined at this time, but this page will be updated as soon as commitments are secured.   

2012 Schedule

Featuring 

May 17th   - All Cars - Crusn' Kick off

May 24th   - Chrysler, Dodge, & Viper

May 31st   - Mustangs

June 7th   - Street Rods, Customs, Lead Sleds

June 14th - Buick, Cadillac

June 21st  - Corvettes

June 28th - Trucks and Car based Pickups

July 5th    - Race Cars

July 12th  - Fords, including T-Birds, Lincolns

July 19th  - Vintage Scooters & Motorcycles (25 yrs. older)

July 26th  - Chevrolet

Aug. 2nd   - Pre-war, Stock 1900-1941 Vehicles

Aug. 9th    - Rear Engine, Mid Engine, & Import Cars

Aug. 16th  - Orphan Makes includings Olds, Plymouth, Pontiac and Mercury

Aug. 23rd  - Survivor Cars & Rat Rods

A note to our participants

Cruisin' Frankfort is a family event and is organized as such. Loud car stereos, burn outs, RPM demonstrations, and open exhaust are not tolerated here. Village ordinance forbids public consumption of alcohol.

Sorry, spaces are first come/first parked!

Cruise Review 2011

8-11 Rear Engine, Mid Engine, and Import

Perfect weather tonite, a full house .$190 to the raffle winner.

pics by JP & Gary Ross

Ron's 73 Porsche 912

Sunroof Beetle sedan with whimsical parking 'brick'

1966 Skoda 1000MB

Pontiac Fiero

Tom's huge Daimler sedan

Gus' 64 Corvair Monza

John's '73 V12 XKE

Hugo's Delorean

Joe's Lancia Sedan

Nice stock 64 Beetle

Jag E type Roadster

Gary's new Fiat 500

Rolls Royce

Lotus

7-21

 Orphan Car Night

Serious heat & humidity, most folks stayed home! Good Stude, Olds, Pontiac presence though! 

pics by JP & Gary Ross

Garage tour chair Dave's '52 Champion  

Ram Air GTO 

Big Rocket 59 Olds 

Plymouth Volare

Coach Kate's 67 Firebird 

55 Studebaker President Speedster

Pauls' 53 Studebaker  

77 Delta 88 Pace Car

4WD AMC Eagle wagon

LaSalle coupe

Pontiac Cam Am 

fabulous 69 Hurst Olds

Sandy's "58 Edsel 

Karen in her Lemans

 7/7 Race Car Night

 our best night yet! race cars of all kinds! $200 to the raffle winner.

Pics by JP 

Late model for the roundy round 

Legend series car

9 second Mustang

Dad races this Monte Carlo sportsman car and... 

daughter Katie (in orange) races these 2 carts 

Mustang runs in the 7's!

'39 Chevy coupe

early roundy round cars like this were very basic inside!

Model T based speedster built for Newport Hillclimb 

Monte Carlo runs in the 9's  

this pretty much sums up the night! 

6/30 Truck Night

Great turn out, plenty of trucks & El Caminos

pics by JP

 OK, this isn''t a truck of course, but was too fun not to include. This replica '72 Chevy Chicago police car was in attendence as well. How many times have you looked up in your rear view only to catch  this frightfull sight?

6/23 Corvette Night

Not so great weather, lot only 1/2 full , but mostly 'vettes!

pics by Gary Ross

6/2 Mustang Night!

 Nice variety of 'stangs, weather good 'till about 7:15 pm.

pics by Gary Ross

Kool Convert on Kansas St.

Nice fastback on Elwood.

Late model go power!

Set up for bracket racing.

Love those redlines!

Hey isn't that Steve McQueen behind the wheel?

more cruise nights- follow this link to other cruise nights in the area

http://www.thegreasygarage.com/calendar-of-events/