European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine cars Inch along the Street in a pastime once again capturing the fancy of american teens. Cruising again Down main Street cities Are stepping on the brakes by Lindse Gruson new York times a s dusk slips Over the bucolic own of Newark Del on  of Chrome etched cars fitted win. Naw Kinn teen agers and students Shakedown Mam s if eel in a carnival of screaming  the cats bumper to bumper Inch along a the Street in what amounts to a singles bar on wheels the oar of engines and car stereos Rise into an ear spa Quinn cacophony. It s another night of cruising a pastime emblematic of America s love affair with the automobile. All bul forgotten to the late 1970s As concern Rose Over gasoline prices cruising is ones again popular capturing he fancy of both teens and older people now Many american cities Are trying to Slop it charging Hal cruisers turn main streets into parking lots and cars into saloons communities have passed a variety of ordinances to Stop lha processions it s a very definite threat to Public safety said mayor William m. Redd or of Newark. I shudder to think what would happen if we had a fire on Mam Street it would be virtually impossible for emergency vehicles to get through. It s been a tragedy wailing to happen in an attempt to drive cruisers out of town the Newark City Council this summer passed a Bili prohibiting cruising the measure one of the most detailed of its kind makes it illegal to pass designated Points on a 2.5-m be Long downtown Loop Throe of More limes from b p m. To 4 am it exempts residents who live in the Loop taxis Drivers on business and emergency vehicles now irom dusk to Midnight each Friday and saturday the nights when cruisers came to  irom Maryland. Delaware and Pennsylvania police officers in pairs sit in their patrol cars making lists of passing ii enc places in the task two months Ine Newark police said they have issued 78 tickets As Well As dozens of warnings violators face fines of up to $100 or 90 Days in jail. It s not Worth Iho Lime and Ettoil needed to enforce it said 21 year old Scott Boekelmann president of the Delaware chapter of the National Nova club an association of Chevrolet Nova owners. Cruising keeps us Oul of trouble. The Law is a waste of time and a Reat big waste of  still the list of cities and states working to drive Oul cruisers is growing Georgia recently passed a statewide ban. Dozens of municipalities including Greenville s.c., As Well As at least 10 in Pennsylvania have passed or Are considering ordinances similar to the one in Newark. Since no group monitors  Laws however it is unclear exactly Tow Many municipalities have joined the trend some Tike los gatos. Calif. Los Angeles and hop fins. Min have barricaded routes favored by cruisers. Still others Are cracking Down through strict enforcement of he traffic code. Pat Ganahl editor of to Hod Magazine who has chronicled the pastime Calls  tactics  some Legal aul hollies and municipal officials question whether the cruising bans Are constitutional. Barry Slem Harot executive director of the Pennsylvania chapter of the american civil liberties Union said to Tell the ordinances violated the constitutionally protected rights to travel and to associate treely but so far at least they have not been challenged so far cruising bans have bean Only moderately successful. Two months Atter the police started Friday october 31,1966 enforcing Newark s Law. Cruisers still roam the downtown Loop although their numbers have declined and cruisers protesting a crackdown in poll town pa., ram parked on labor Day burning police barricades and Fishtail my their cars along a 1.9-mile stretch of High Street known As i ill Camoria. Ganahl said that police have unsuccessfully tried to stamp out cruising for 40 years Ever since the los Angeles police Chiel issued an arrest on sight edict in the late 1940s new cruising is subdivided into a variety of disc incl categories. There Are to name just a Lew. Low riders whose machines Are Slung so Low that they merge with their shadows pickup cruisers whose trucks Are jacked up unlit the Driver needs a ladder to get behind the wheel classic car cruisers Many of whom Are older and spend up to a decade and $30,000 customizing their vehicles and muscle car cruisers whose Forte is raw Power. It s got a 400 Small Block bored to 30, Crank turned 7-to-1 compression with Csc 671 Blower and iwo 650 Holley carbs said Scott Wolynez noting a Lew of the High Points on his Chrome Clad 650-horsepower engine. Asked to translate he said. A moves Down the Road pretty  cruising developed in Rural areas where Young men drove into town Lor the evening Ganahl said. When they got there there was nothing to do. So they just drove around looking or  those with the hottest cars invariably attracted the most attention he said. So the machines became As important As the men. You look at the car first and then you Check Oul the Guys said 17-year-old Missy Hainey of Wilmington As she watched a blood red Chevrolet Camaro two teen age boys in it. Pass along the Newark Loop. It s Cool when you see a car like that with two hot babes the stars and stripes Page 13