If cool cruisers, good stories, hot cakes or funny car racing star Della Woods tickles your fancy, join the Lake Orion Police Department and Golling Buick GMC crew for the annual Shop with a Hero Charity Car Cruise this Saturday, August 1.
Unlike past years the annual charity car cruise will be held in downtown Lake Orion on Flint St. and Broadway.
The show begins at 8 a.m. with an all-you-can-eat charity pancake breakfast until 11:30 a.m. with all proceeds funding the Shop with a Hero program held each December. Last year more than 120 children went holiday shopping with their local first responders.
Patrons will also have the opportunity to meet Lake Orion’s own National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) pro driver Della Woods who will be on hand at 1:00 p.m. showing her 6,000 horsepower (yes 6,000) funny car. Della Woods was one of the top 20 ranked top fuel funny car racers in America and set many firsts in her career. She was the first female driver in the five-second bracket in the funny car class, and also the first female driver to make it to the semi-finals for a NHRA national race.
A trophy presentation will begin at 1:30 p.m., and Rockin Ronnie will be spinning oldies all day long until 2:00 p.m.
There will also be great deals for some of the popular GMC Buick models on display. — M. Peters