Memories connected to cars rekindled for 150 couples
By Bill McLauchlan
Cars play a big part in most of our lives and, as the years pass, contribute to many milestones along the way.
It’s hard to forget your first time behind the wheel of a car. Or how about the first car you ever owned? Your first awkward fumblings in the back seat? Your first new car? Driving home from the hospital with your first born? Noteworthy road trips? The list is as long as your memory.
Looking back, one car often stands out among all the others. Perhaps you’ve kept it all through those years, lavishing it with care and affection to keep it in pristine condition. Or, thanks to career success, you’ve had the financial means to locate and buy back the very car you used to own or bought and restored one just like it. Whatever the reason, it’s all been driven by love, one way or another.
To emphasize these life-long commitments Hagerty, the world’s leading insurance provider for classic cars, trucks and motorcycles, decided it would be a good idea to host a vow renewal ceremony for more than 150 classic car owners in the cars they love at the legendary Woodward Dream Cruise over the weekend. The Dream Cruise brought together more than 40,000 classic cars and around a million visitors to Detroit’s Woodward Avenue.
“So many special life moments that create lasting memories are connected to cars,” said McKeel Hagerty, CEO of the firm. “We wanted to find a way to rekindle those memories for couples who love their cars almost as much as they love each other.”
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| PRNewsFoto/Hagerty Gordon and Geri Rinschler renew their vows in the same 1930 Ford Model A they drove at their wedding 47 years ago. |
Using the world-famous Woodward cruise as the perfect ‘car-centric’ setting for the event, participating couples were provided veils, bow ties, cupcakes, sparkling apple cider and a certificate to mark the occasion. More than 150 couples participated in the vow renewals including Gordon and Geri Rinschler of Birmingham, Michigan, who were married 47 years ago in the very same 1930 Ford Model A that they drove to renew their vows in last Saturday. Dressed in full gown and tux and witnessed by their three children and 17-year-old granddaughter, who attend the Dream Cruise together every year, the Rinschlers reaffirmed their love stating “this will certainly be a Dream Cruise to remember.”
The Woodward Dream Cruise started as a fundraiser for a soccer field in Ferndale twenty years ago. In just a few short years it has evolved into the world’s largest one-day automotive event. Spectators and cruisers travel to the 16-mile (26 km) stretch of Detroit’s historical Woodward Avenue to demonstrate and view thousands of muscle cars, street rods, custom, classic, collector and special interest vehicles that celebrate an ongoing love affair with the automobile.
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