Car cruisers' vow on meets
A convoy of up to 30 modified cars cruised into a Staffordshire town to show off their speed machines, with members vowing that police would never stop them.
But Maxine Cullis, who was at a McDonald's in Cannock, said most people met just to show off their cars and the thousands of pounds of changes they had made.
Maxine, of Bushbury, Wolverhampton, and her husband Pete run a website, with 900 members, for fans of modified cars called midzcruizin.co.uk.
Three of its members died in car crashes after visiting the fast food restaurant at the Longford Retail Park, prompting South Staffordshire coroner Andrew Haigh to call for action from McDonald's to stop car enthusiasts meeting there.
Modifications yesterday included 15in TVs, DVD players, a smoke machine and boom boxes in the boot, with flash body kits and expensive alloy wheels.
Maxine said the boy racer problem was not widespread as most people did not want to risk an accident.
"They all park up and everybody will admire everybody's cars and the systems in them," she said.
"There is street racing that goes on, I'm not going to lie, because there are some cars that enjoy that activity so we do it even though it is illegal. But we will take it into an industrial estate that's shut down for the weekend."
Police have carried out operations at McDonald's and the nearby retail park where cars have been seized.
But Maxine said: "It will never stop. The more they try and curb it the more it will go underground."
The shift manager at McDonald's declined to comment.
