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Apr 24, 2009 - Car Show Season is Here Again!

My year has two seasons: car show season and the rest of the year. Car show season begins the Wednesday before Easter for the New York Auto Show and the end of the season is when I leave the Fall Hershey event in October. After that, it’s a dreary winter of anticipating another car show.

I’m a car show addict. While many people get excited when they see a ’57 Chevrolet, a ’63 Corvette, or a ’55 Thunderbird, these sightings are as bland as spotting a pothole on a Pennsylvania highway; been there, done that.

Sighting a rare car is my opiate. Finding a factory-backed Chrysler Cordoba convertible or a 4-speed manual Bricklin or a gray-market Toyota Chaser excites me far more than any of those beautiful but common “classic” cars that others enjoy.

While the New York Auto Show is good for seeing the latest new cars and concepts, it’s not until the Spring Carlisle event that the car show season kicks into high gear. Walking around the nearly 90 acres of cars and parts at the Carlisle Fairgrounds is great exercise, great fun running into old friends, and quite enjoyable when you find that 1-of-few treasure buried in the car corral between two run-of-the-mill examples of Detroit iron.

My camera is always at the ready. Since digital photography is so much less expensive than my old 35mm Konica was, I can take hundreds of pictures at any show. Whether it’s a pink Auburn hot rod or a rare Ford Durango, my camera can save the images of front and rear, top and bottom, inside and out. And then I get to share them with you, my car loving brethren (and sistern?).

If you’re in Carlisle on the Saturday of the show, let me know. If you see someone spending just a little too long photographing a car you’ve probably never seen before, that’s me. Just say hi!

8:56 am | Categories: car shows, hershey, carlisle, nyias, pictures Permalink | Alert Administrator

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