While the main focus of every Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge event is the drag racing program, the largest area and the greatest collection of vehicles participating at the M1 Concourse is the Cruise-In display. When Roadkill Nights moved to downtown Pontiac, the Cruise-In area was vastly minimized due to a shortage of space, but for the 2024 event, the “show cars” were back to big numbers thanks to all of the available space around the facility’s road course track.
Dodge vehicles are always the most prevalent in the Roadkill Nights Cruise-In area due to the fact that the company offers a limited number of “Dodge Cruise-In” tickets for free to owners of Dodge vehicles. Owners of non-Dodge vehicles have to pay $160, which includes parking inside of the venue and admission for two adults (admission is $25 per adult, kids are free). Some non-Dodge owners do pay that price, but the majority of Cruise-In vehicles are Dodge products – and as a Dodge owner and enthusiast, it is pretty cool seeing the sprawling Dodge car show.
As you might expect, the most popular vehicles in the Cruise-In areas are modern Dodge Challengers and Chargers, with the majority of them being SRT® Hellcat or SRT Hellcat Redeye models, but there was also a mix of naturally aspirated SXT, R/T, T/A and Scat Pack models … along with the mighty SRT Demon and SRT Demon 170. There were also a handful of Durangos of various levels on display, including the SRT Hellcat and the closely related Jeep® Grand Cherokee Trackhawk.
Those modern Dodge cars and SUVs were joined by a nice spread of modern and classic Ram (or Dodge Ram) trucks, as well as other Jeep vehicles aside from the Trackhawks and some modern Chrysler products. There was also a fantastic collection of classic Mopar® muscle cars from Dodge and Plymouth, including models names like ’Cuda, Duster, Polara, Super Bee, Road Runner, New Yorker, Satellite, Fury and, of course, Challenger and Charger. As mentioned above, among the field of more than 300 vehicles in the Cruise-In area, there was a collection of non-Mopar vehicles that included an array of classic and modern performance cars from Ford and GM, along with a few European supercars and a handful of classic AMC models. All of these cars were situated along one for the short straight sections of the M1 Concourse race track, allowing spectators to easily stroll through the entire spread, and when you got to “the end” of the Cruise-In field, you were right at the racer pits, where you could check out the Roadkill Nights drag racing program participants up close.
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