Last year, I was only able to get one day in at Hershey because after Wednesday, it POURED!
This year, the second day was even better than the first. I have not been that content and satisfied in years – life is good, and last Thursday at Hershey was GREAT!
Honestly – it was antique automotive perfection… Enjoy!
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- Leaving the house before dawn, I was up deep into Amish coutry when the sun came up.
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- The fog burning off the farmland around the Amish farms was beautiful – and the start of a beautiful day!
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- Amish tobacco drying out.
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- This large building through the mist is the Strasburg Railroad museum – and that little dark grey blob just above it is a hot air balloon – what a great view THAT would be!
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- Back up at Hershey and on the field! Here is a 1918 Oldsmobile Touring that I liked.
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- The 1918 Oldsmobile interior.
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- A Ford “special” in the Dragone Auction tent.
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- This car was VERY well done…
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- And also VERY well proportioned!
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- I really liked it, and am pretty sure it is a period build.
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- There’s Manny Dragone himself, wiping down a car. I have seen hime here, at Hershey, in this tent, every year for as long as I can remember – and I have ben going for 32 YEARS!
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- Another car in the Dragone collection.
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- The Starship Enterprise…
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- The Hyman Limited tent.
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- Bugatti racer
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- Early European racing at its best!
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- 1932 Marmon
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- I’m pretty sure that this “Rhino” is actually an elaborate American LaFrance speedster…
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- American Underslung – note the frame and front suspension.
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- This is a 1921 Faultless Raceabout.
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- The “ghost image” of the lettering is pretty cool – original patina at its best!
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- She was rough but restorable – and pricey!
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- but very cool – and unique!
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- This Packard touring car in the Packard club tent was used by many big name military commanders in various parades – Eisenhower, etc.
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- 1914 Cadillac racer – and Big Boy!
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- A completely restored MGTF chassis – perfect for a vintage racing special!
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- $40.00 for the PAIR – Wow – that’s alot cheaper than what us Jaguar guys are used to! These are aftermarket 60’s Mustang fenders…
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- 1917 Overland Touring. These orphan cars from the late teens – after 1916 and so not “Brass Era” cars, but rather “Nickel Era” – are CHEAP!!!!!
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- A “Parade of Progress” model – neat since I had just seen the real thing auctioned off for MILLIONS at Barratt-Jackson this past January!
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- A perfectly restored BMW Isetta.
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- What a perfect day! There is nowhere else I’d rather be!
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- Rosebud…
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- A ’62 Corvette, out in front of the camper of the Brewster Club – who were always near us in the Green field back in the early 1990’s – and they have ALWAYS had this same mannequin!
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- This was super cool – a real, ORIGINAL Cunningham!
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- Details…
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- BONE stock – wow…
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- She needs to be restored, but I can appreciate the owner’s reluctance to do so!
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- And it had this sticker on it – also vintage, but I don’t think quite as old as the car itself…
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- the elaborate door handles
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- Love the bumper sticker…
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- This was extremely cool…
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- Brass Era Rolls-Royce
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- Classic Hershey flea market…
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- …and so is this – love the Moon Eyes T-shirt!
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- This car was ro be auctioned off this past Sunday near Strasburg.
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- more classic Hershey…
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- …and more – these are Stanley steamer projects
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- Pierce-Arrow – the headlamps sculpted into the front fenders are a dead giveaway…
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- This shot is a poor photo of two A-10 Warthog fighter planes that flew over the flea market several times on Thursday – once even doing a partial “victory roll” – I think to get a better view of it maybe! They were also alot lower than they look here. AND – LOOK at that blue sky!
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- 1918 Dodge Brothers military car for WW1
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- The 1926 “Jerk Mobile” – this guy has been around for as long as I can remember too!
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- Heaven on earth for antique car guys…
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- A very clean VW beetle
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- 1957 Plymouth Belvedere convertible
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- Wow – that’s ALOT of car – literally!
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- I think this car would be ALOT of fun for a family to own and play with on the weekends, and at $42,000, you could not build it for twice that price!
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- Another E-Type in the back of the car corral
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- This is a “Series 1.25” – all Series 1 except for the headlamps – which were the first things to go in the transition to Series 2…
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- Straight out of Spongebob…
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- This Buick looks MEAN!
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- This Erector set Eiffel tower was BIG – much bigger than it looks in this photo.
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- Vintage speed equipment
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- A very early International truck chassis – this is just super COOL!
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- 1960 Triumph Italia 2000 GT.
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- This car was recently restored by Ragtops & Roadsters in Perkasie, PA.
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- Great job, guys!
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- Unbelieveably, for the first time in about 15 years, I bought a Paige part! This radiator and shell was in EXCELLENT condition, and it was also just too good to pass up!
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- Looking west along the car corral in the aftrenoon…
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- …and East!
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- And now for something TOTALLY different – this is, well, I guess you would call it “Induction Artwork”!
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- These were all originals drawn by the artist – here are some SU’s…
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- …and here is a Schebler.
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- And HERE is the artist – Casey Hall. That Weber carb painting is an original – and just unbelievable! Go check out her other works at www.caseykhall.com!
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- This giant arbor press was tempting – but with everything I already have to move, I needed this like a hole in the head!
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- more classic Hershey…
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- I’ll bet this is a blast! Looks like it has an overhead valve V-8 installed.
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- This Rolls was freshly restored, and stunning…
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- something for everyone!
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- This guy had just purchased this tin “Sears Automotive Center”, and he was tickled with his purchase! Note the car shirt of the guy in front of him, the giant inflatable Coker Tire in front of that – all classic Hershey!
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- Can’t remember – but this MIGHT have been an E-M-F
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- Hi-Po Chevy and Corvette fuel injection units from every year…
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- This seems a little extreme…
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- Not much of an advertisement these days!
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- Young Albert Einstein…
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- SOLD!
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- This was the end for me after 2 days – the last (first) row of the Chocolate field…
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- “This 103 year old vehicle is circumnavigating the United States”
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- A brass era Chalmers Detroit.
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- Headed over to meet some friends at the end of the day, I just kept taking photos of beautiful hershey scenes…
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- As the shadows grew long, and my legs ached, it was time to go. I was exhausted, but couldn’t really bear to leave!
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- This is my favorite sidewalk I mentioned earlier – with two car buddies ending their day – one with an exhasut manifold under his arm…
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- This camper was set up right there – and honestly, with the modd I was in, I was ready to just live here for the rest of my life!
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- This was the view from their chairs! HEAVEN ON EARTH!!!
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- I did spot this XK-120 at the very end.
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- Red on red – garish!
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- XK-120 tail…
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- A late afternoon club meeting in the national Overland club’s tent on the Chocolatre field.
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- Looking up at one of Hershey’s many “dirigibles”…
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- After I met and talked to my friends for about 1/2 hour, the scene had changed and everyone was done combing through the fields, but still milling about their own spaces. I just happened to be in the row where the Horeless carriage club guys are (Pre-1916 brass era cars), and it was about 5:30 PM. They were all playing with their cars and driving them around – it was GREAT!
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- Including this VERY early Ford – a model N I believe.
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- Oil leakage was NOT a big concern in the early days of the automobile – my dad always talks about one car that had a “total loss” oiling system, where the oil drained down and right onto the road – NO Oil pan! I think it might have been parked here a few minutes ago!
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- On the long walk back to the car corral, I snapped this shot of a restored Packard “woody” – maybe it’s the same car that graced the Blue Field of Hershey – over 1/4-century ago…
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- Headed home, as the sun sets over the same Amish farms where I saw it rise. Hershey is my annual “rite of passage” – and this year I needed it BAD, and today was quite simply, as good as it gets! THANK YOU – to EVERYONE who is a part of it – I, for one, appreciate you dragging all of that stuff, and yourselves out there! See you next year! – Chuck 🙂
