TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens 1950 Buick Special Deluxe

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens Dodge pick up truck parked beside the new stairs on East Main Street.

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens Shelby Cobra driving down main street.

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens Beth Charles selling t-shirts to raise money for the Reeves Restoration Project.

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens 1958 Rat Rod right hand drive Volkswagon Beetle.

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens Plymouth Roadrunner

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens A 380SL Mercedes driving down Main Street and a Pinto parked along the street.

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens Dodge truck.

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens TR250, 1968 Triumph.

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens A 1940 two door Ford.

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens Biscayne Chevy at Saturday's Cruise-In.

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens Joe Walker was at Saturday's Cruise-In deejaying on the patio of Twenty-One and Main with the Elkin Jaycees.

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens Joe Walker of All Star Rentals brought his 1965 Plymouth Satellite down for the last Crusie-In.

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TRIBUNE/Jessica Pickens Chrysler Windsor

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Gentlemen, you may shut off your engines.

The last Cruise-In of the season was this Saturday, bringing out classic cars owners and lovers to celebrate the end of summer.

After cruising left Elkin in the 1990s, this summer’s Cruise-Ins began in June to help raise money for the Reeves Theater through t-shirt sales.

Classic car lovers responded well to each event, bringing out over 100 cars to show case and drive during the events.

One driver gave one of Vicky Roberts, co-organizer of the event, a letter that said, “You sponsored three cruise-ins and brought back fun and family entertainment that has been so disappointingly missing for many of us ‘cruisers.’ Thanks for taking us back to a time when cruising was the thing to do, was good for business and kept communities and towns in touch with each other.”

Roberts said she has received positive feedback from several others, including the police department who said they had not had any complaints.

Cruise-Ins will return next summer, starting in May and continuing through August.

Reach Jessica Pickens at 835-1513 ext. 18 or jpickens@heartlandpublications.com