‘Cruzin-USA’ series visits car shows, bike weeks

Fans of racing, car shows and bike weeks might like a weekly half-hour program revving up for the next six Sundays on WWMB-TV 21, the local CW network affiliate.

Keith Goad has produced a “Cruzin-USA” series, which will premiere at 5 p.m. Sunday, during an hourlong paid-programming block of shows.

The resident of Ocean Lakes Family Campground, near Surfside Beach, said he has spent about a year putting the first five episodes together and that post-production work continues on the finale. He also hopes “to go national with this” with airings elsewhere in other markets.

The initial episode, Goad said, will include footage from Daytona Bike Week in Florida, as well as “some car shows in New Smyrna Beach,” a few miles south off Interstate 95.

Another approach to the filming entails showing viewers “a lot of different things to do” at each locale, for instance, other activities during a bike week outside of all the motorcycles.

Other installments of the series, which also includes trucks, racing and bands, will take viewers to a car show in Scottsdale, Ariz., the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, an Easyrider Bike Show in Charlotte, and the S.C. International Auto Show in Greenville, Goad said, touting the variety of places.

Calling himself “a 60-year-old motorhead” and “car fanatic,” Goad said he’s enjoyed being “around cars and motorcycles my whole life.” He said another drive to make “Cruzin-USA” is to give people who cannot travel across the country to such bike and car shows a taste of the fun and spirit of “American muscle” cars and trucks, and Wisconsin-made Harley-Davidsons, in the spotlight.

Having owned various race cars and Harleys, and coordinated car shows for several years in Branson, Mo., before moving to the Grand Strand, where he continues his fourth decade of a sales and marketing career, Goad sees Myrtle Beach as “a good place because so much stuff is going on.” He also enjoys attending such annual gatherings as the Florence-area-based Pee Dee Street Rodders’ “Run to the Sun” car shows.

Goad said he’s mostly a “one-man show” in putting together “Cruzin-USA,” a total personal investment with his own TV camera equipment and wireless microphones hauled on flights and road trips for filming and interviews with “special guests” at each site. He also credited a few other folks for helping on tasks such as editing all the footage.

Citing his own July 4 birthday, Goad remembered a patriotic late grandfather’s loyalty to buying U.S.-made automobiles, another reason he sees the attraction of stylish cars and bikes as an avenue for getting people of all ages together and packaging such experiences on film.

Goad also voiced his hopes of maybe staging a car and bike show, maybe with blues music, down the road.

With “Cruzin-USA,” he hopes to add on miles for showcasing such celebratory scenes across the country.

“We have to start somewhere,” Goad said. “We have to jump in the water.”

This story was originally published October 30, 2015 at 1:38 PM with the headline "‘Cruzin-USA’ series visits car shows, bike weeks."