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Location: Detroit | Sorry if there's a discussion about this already. I used the search function and came up with nada.
Is anyone planning on going to Hershey this week? If the weather holds out, I'm pretty sure I'll be taking my Plymouth from Maryland. It'll be it's first highway trip (sad that I've had it for over 5 years, and it's never really been driven more than a few miles at a time).
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Location: York County, PA | We will be running around everyday at Hershey this week, since Hershey is just up the road for us. |
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Location: Detroit | ruchaven - 2008-10-06 7:43 PM
We will be running around everyday at Hershey this week, since Hershey is just up the road for us.
Great!
Anyone else going??? |
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Location: new york | We be there Wensday morning no mopar this year , Im takin a Checker and my buddys 55 CHEBY,Hope tp see some great cars and parts ,and lots of friends OLD & NEW! HAPPY MOTORING-SAFE TRIP! |
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Location: New Jersey | Fred, Jr. and I will be there later on this week, driving our abominally slow black 1960 2-dr, automatic, F=rd Falcon. We will be dressed in blue dungarees with the cuffs rolled up, and flannel shirts. |
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Location: Finger Lakes NY | well be headin out in the mornin look for a wagon with desoto fins!!
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Location: Detroit | old mopar guy - 2008-10-07 7:01 PM
We be there Wensday morning no mopar this year , Im takin a Checker and my buddys 55 CHEBY,Hope tp see some great cars and parts ,and lots of friends OLD & NEW! HAPPY MOTORING-SAFE TRIP!
Thank you!
And what year Checker? I've been wanting to buy one for years, but the Plymouth sort of sucked all the money out of that fund. |
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Location: Detroit | I saw a black checker being followed by a 55 chevy, was that you? If so, I have a two second video of you driving by me, |
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Location: new york | Hershey was great! Im sure it was "infected" by the current economic climate,the weather was great ! Prices were STUPID!!! Not to much FL cars or parts,I did see a 58 Desoto Fire sweep wagon for sale, a pretty rare car needing work and a real nicr 56 Desoto 2dr ht Real Nice!I did not stay for the sat show Im sure the show will be packed and will have a noce showing of FL cars. And 58 Belvedere Yes that was me and friends in the 55 Cheby and the Black Checker sedan running around the Hershey area ! HAPPY MOTORING ! Victor. |
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| Went to Hershey, they say attendance was down 30%.
This DeSoto was in the flea market area, offered by a dealer for $20K. Dealer says it was from the Binder collection in Iowa, I have a hard time believing him. Odo showed 6K, body looked like it had some poor rust repair/touch up.
Also, is that black insert in the driver's seat correct for a DeSoto?
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Location: Detroit | old mopar guy - 2008-10-11 11:22 AM
Hershey was great! Im sure it was "infected" by the current economic climate,the weather was great ! Prices were STUPID!!! Not to much FL cars or parts,I did see a 58 Desoto Fire sweep wagon for sale, a pretty rare car needing work and a real nicr 56 Desoto 2dr ht Real Nice!I did not stay for the sat show Im sure the show will be packed and will have a noce showing of FL cars. And 58 Belvedere Yes that was me and friends in the 55 Cheby and the Black Checker sedan running around the Hershey area ! HAPPY MOTORING ! Victor.
On the contrary, I saw a good number of FL cars. Though, only 1 1957-8 Plymouth (a Fury).
Too bad I didn't get to see you when you were stationary! We could have had a chat.
Here you go driving by me at all sorts of speed in the Checker:
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=34i0qhl&s=4
Edited by 58Belvedere 2008-10-12 4:46 PM
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Location: Hell's Outhouse - a.k.a. Buckeye, Arizona | Rob,
Yep, that's the '61 from the Binder collection auction last October ('07) - although the auction site said she had just a hair over 9K original miles. |
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Location: new york | I was driving my friends 55 Cheby and my friend John was driving My Checker,The weather was great and im sorry I did not stay to see the car show on sat. Im sure there were some nice FL cars there.I tried to look at the your tape of us passing by ,could not down load, thanks anyway!I think the Hershey show reflected the slowing economic cycle,Carlisle the week before was even worse.Hope things get better and HAPPY MOTORING! Victor. |
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Location: Detroit | Here are all the FL cars I took photos of:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Buick61/HersheyForwardLook#
The '57 Dodge Convertible had an $85,000 price tag... |
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Location: Brooklyn NY | I was there, bought a few little odds and ends, but noone had anything anyway for my 58 or 62. That 61 DeSoto was nice in terms of rarity and being the last year of production, I don't think the price was too out of line. The Sat. show was great, I love the real oldies and seeing cars I've never seen before. I liked the cars in the Historic Preservation area....Ralph from Brooklyn |
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| 1955 Coronado, do you recall the selling price of the '61 DeSoto at the Binder auction?
The dealer is asking $20K.
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| Thank you for the pictures, 58 Belvedere.
What do you know about the maroon and white '58 Belvedere parked in front of the AACA Hershey Museum?
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Location: bishop, ca | It was nice to see the Belmont, again. Last time I saw it, it was for-sale in the B-J's "sale" tent, a few years ago.
Anybody talk to Tom White, in Re: that turquoise/black CRL convertible?
BTW, that car was originally gold/white, with the gold/black interior (if we're talking about its convertible-section;
its Coro 2-dr hardtop section's paint scheme-coding was not confirmed, to me, but, I think I'll go find out what it was.
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Location: Detroit | Rob - 2008-10-13 7:11 PM
Thank you for the pictures, 58 Belvedere.
What do you know about the maroon and white '58 Belvedere parked in front of the AACA Hershey Museum?
No problem!
Actually, the Belvedere is Red & White, but the bright sunlight distorted the colors in the photo. That's my car. |
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Location: Hell's Outhouse - a.k.a. Buckeye, Arizona | Rob - 2008-10-13 4:06 PM
1955 Coronado, do you recall the selling price of the '61 DeSoto at the Binder auction?
The dealer is asking $20K.
I sure don't, Rob.
Try searching the site under "Binder DeSoto Aucton" - Lee had every sale price on there..... |
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Location: Hell's Outhouse - a.k.a. Buckeye, Arizona | Ok, Rob - just found it.
Acording to Lee ("roadkillontheweb" here), that '61 went for $21,000 last October. Here's the thread with all the prices:
http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=16887&... |
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Location: Detroit | I'm just so happy that there was no rain. The grass parking lots would have been a disaster, especially with my car not having Sure-Grip and all.
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Location: Spencerport, New York | Being a vendor at Carlisle, I have to disagree with the dire assesments. I did very well and most of the vendors I spoke to seemed to be pleased with there sales. Attendance probably was down from last year but the people who came were buying! the only really disturbing thing was the number of empty vendor spaces.
Hershey, on the other hand had a full flea market and a great car show, as usual but I can only speak for Friday and Saturday. We showed Karens' 65 Marlin in H.P.O.F. and even at the very back of the show field it was wall to wall people for most of the day. Needless to say with the wonderful weather we had a great time! Dick W. |
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Location: new york | Hey 58 Belvedere ! You know you can show your car on the show field sat in the driver class if your not into the judging thing. Im planning on it next year we left on fri night cause you cant get into the car corral spots till 11am on sat,so Ill reg for the sat show with a car so we could drive in and see the show! HAPPY MOTORING!! |
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Location: Detroit | old mopar guy - 2008-10-14 8:19 PM
Hey 58 Belvedere ! You know you can show your car on the show field sat in the driver class if your not into the judging thing. Im planning on it next year we left on fri night cause you cant get into the car corral spots till 11am on sat,so Ill reg for the sat show with a car so we could drive in and see the show! HAPPY MOTORING!!
I may just do that. There weren't that many cars in that section of the show, which I found surprising.
fintastic57 - 2008-10-14 8:02 PM
Being a vendor at Carlisle, I have to disagree with the dire assesments. I did very well and most of the vendors I spoke to seemed to be pleased with there sales. Attendance probably was down from last year but the people who came were buying! the only really disturbing thing was the number of empty vendor spaces.
Hershey, on the other hand had a full flea market and a great car show, as usual but I can only speak for Friday and Saturday. We showed Karens' 65 Marlin in H.P.O.F. and even at the very back of the show field it was wall to wall people for most of the day. Needless to say with the wonderful weather we had a great time! Dick W.
One of the vendors I spoke to at Hershey said business at Carlisle was, "dead." So, I guess it depends on who you ask.
I saw that Marlin! Had I known, I would have said hello! |
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Location: Bjorneborg, Finland | Rob - 2008-10-13 12:37 AM
Also, is that black insert in the driver's seat correct for a DeSoto?
Yes , that black insert is correct for a '61 DeSoto..
I don't know if a small logo in the upper part of back seat is original, is it? I own a '61 DeSoto 2-dr Ht. |
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Location: South Easton & Cape Cod, MA | Jane & I were at Hershey on thursday & friday. We saw the cars listed above, Plus a three toned, white over black & coral '56 Dodge Texan.
Saturday we went to the antique auto museum. We saw your car in the parking lot 58Belvedere, and took her picture. sorry we missed you. |
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Location: Sept. 1958 | Did anyone get any photos of that 56 Dodge Texan? I saw it for a few seconds as it drove by thru the show, but never did find the car again. I was there all 4 days, either Thursday or Friday is when I saw it. Marked on the windshield was "Factory A/C".
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Location: Detroit | jade57savoy - 2008-10-15 8:13 PM
Saturday we went to the antique auto museum. We saw your car in the parking lot 58Belvedere, and took her picture. sorry we missed you.
You did?? That's so cool!!
We got to the museum just as it opened and stayed until well after 1:00pm--we didn't mean to stay that long but we had a lot of fun in there. I was the guy wearing the Tulsarama shirt (I wore a different one on each day!). Someone asked me about it in the museum, actually. Was pretty neat. |
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