Road-trip warriors who are familiar with driving in “The Mitten State” – or even billboard spotters who travel up and down the I-75 corridor – have likely either been to or have seen signs for Frankenmuth. This Bavarian-themed little town in The Thumb area of Michigan is well-known as the home to Bronner’s, “The World’s Largest Christmas Store” as well as the mega family-style restaurants Zehnder’s and Bavarian Inn, where you can get their “World-Famous Chicken Dinners.” But for enthusiasts, the big attraction is the yearly Frankenmuth Auto Fest, held on the weekend following Labor Day.

It’s actually a three-day event full of food, fun, music and cars that draws some 2,500 vehicles and 150,000 people. It began nearly four decades ago as a main-street fundraiser for the Frankenmuth Rotary Club, Lion’s Club, American Legion, VFW and the Michigan Heroes Museum, but has now grown into a huge event managed by over 500 volunteers and now spilling into and filling the town’s sprawling Heritage Park.

If classic American Iron and pre-1987’s are your favorites, then you’ll want to head to town on either that Friday or Saturday. If you’re more into modern-day muscle, the show field opens up to all makes and model vehicles up to current model year on Sunday. If you can manage to pull yourself away from the car show, downtown Frankenmuth offers plenty of shopping, dining, and entertainment for the whole family. With a population of just over 5,000, it’s small-town quaint with big-time appeal. In addition to Bronner’s and the chicken dinner restaurants, there a local brewery, specialty stores and even a wine-tasting shop.For show-goers, the Big Block Party is held Friday from 5-10 p.m. on Main Street. Saturday is the BIG car show, and on Saturday night there’s a live band under the pavilion with dancing, food and beverages. (Frankenmuth is the home of rock band Greta Van Fleet.) On Sunday they have another car show concluding with a 1 p.m. people’s choice awards ceremony where some 60 German Steins are the “trophies.” The event closes with a tribute to Veterans.

In this episode, John and Mike take us through the Mustang photos from the event taken by noted Ford car-show photographer Bill Cook. We couldn’t help but notice that this fall’s Mustang show-car footprint was dominated by the 1971-73 “Big Horses” – more and more of which seem to showing up on the show circuit. So check out the Stangs seen at the Auto Fest – without having to walk miles to see the Mustangs or gain all the calories from eating one of Frankenmuth’s world-famous chicken dinners!

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Ask any Ford fan about their favorite Mustang Pace car and they’ll say it’s the 64-1/2 Indianapolis Pace Car, the 79 Indy Pace car or the 94 SVT Mustang Cobra Indy Pace Car. But Mustang Pace Cars have paced many other races beyond the Indianapolis 500 and one man – Marty Mieras – has a collection of them whose rarity and pedigree will amaze you. Marty also happens to be the president of the West Michigan Mustang Club, and likely the hobby’s most well-versed expert on Mustang Pace Cars.

In this episode, John and Mike ask Marty to reveal the amazing stories behind his one dozen Mustang Pace Cars – wait, make that a Baker’s Dozen, as Marty admits to recently chasing down yet another ultra-rare pace car! Listen in until the end of this educational interview, and you’re sure to learn more about Mustang Pace Cars than you ever thought possible!

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The Woodward Dream Cruise is billed as North America’s largest one-day automotive event celebrating the classic car culture. With the Motor City’s famed Woodward Avenue known as the birthplace of the American auto industry, it only makes sense that this annual summer mega-event takes place in the metro Detroit area. Held on the third Saturday of August each year, the Dream Cruise attracts some 1 million people from across the globe and 40,000 classic, custom and collector vehicles of all kinds – from hot rods to muscle cars and everything in-between.The cruise route itself covers a 16-mile loop along Woodward Avenue just north of Detroit through multiple suburbs starting in Ferndale, heading 8 miles up to Pontiac and returning 8 miles back. For Mustang fans, the big attraction is Ford’s Mustang Alley along Nine Mile Road in Ferndale, where hundreds of Mustangs and Ford performance vehicles are on display. Podcast co-hosts John Clor and Mike Rey walked the alley in a recent episode to introduce you to some of the people who you’ll meet there and to hear their Mustang stories.But many of you have asked for a closer look at the cars both in Mustang Alley and out cruising along Woodward, so in this episode John and Mike offer a glimpse at some of the Mustangs you may have missed seeing at this year’s Woodward Dream Cruise. It’s all thanks to the photos we received from Bill Cook, a Ford retiree and superfan whose Mustang and Ford car show event photojournalism helped make John’s Enthusiast Section on FordPerformnance.com so immensely popular before Ford Racing’s pivot to motorsports only website content. Take a look at the some of these cool Mustangs Cook spotted both in the alley and actively rolling along Woodward on cruise day.

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