The Woodward Dream Cruise in August is the biggest cruise in the Detroit area, but it’s not the only major cruise here, not by a long shot. Here’s a photo revue of this weekend’s Telegraph Road Cruise. 

Motor City Garage has no way to validate this claim, but we are just going to throw down anyway and assert that the Detroit metropolitan area has more enthusiast cars per capita than any other geographic region in America. It sure looks that way when the summer cruise season is under way and the boulevards are flooded with every type of gearhead-mobile imaginable, from street rods to muscle cars to vintage sports cars, in a density you won’t encounter anywhere else. Hey, they don’t call this the Motor City for nothing.

Telegraph Road was a popular cruising and street racing venue back in the day, just like Woodward, so it’s only natural for a revival cruise today. The official event route includes the communities of Taylor, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, and Redford Township, a stretch of Telegraph Road amounting to nearly 15 miles.

Below is a sample of the cars on hand at this weekend’s 2012 Telegraph Cruise.

Note: Since a cruise is a car show on the hoof, so to speak, it can be difficult to track down and connect the cars and their owners. As a result, only a handful of the vehicles in the gallery here include owner info. If anyone in the MCG audience can help fill in the blanks on these vehicles, please drop a note to mcg@macsmotorcitygarage.com or into the reply box below and the info will be updated. We like to give credit where it’s due.

Thanks! -mcg