"The Elegance" Hershey, PA

[3798j]

Spent a wonderful morning. Held on the grounds of the Hershey Hotel, this concours always impresses.

 

[waltesefalcon]

What a show. Anything that the Mormon Meteor shows up for is something special.

 

[aeronca65t]

I ran the Hershey Hillclimb (now, The Grand Ascent) about 10 years ago.

In fact, one of my college students got FTD at the Ascent last year).

If we had the time, the Elegance would be a nice show to go to. Great cars!

 

[waltesefalcon]

I just noticed the Bentley has a cassette player, classy.

 

[HealeyRick]

I just noticed the Bentley has a cassette player, classy.

Looks horrible to me. IMHO, and Lord knows I've been known to take liberties with originality, but nothing looks as jarring to me as a non-period sound system in an otherwise original car.

 

[drooartz]

Looks horrible to me. IMHO, and Lord knows I've been known to take liberties with originality, but nothing looks as jarring to me as a non-period sound system in an otherwise original car.

With all the great, inexpensive, period looking options now to provide tunes to classic cars there is no excuse for a cheesy PepBoys stereo to be slapped in the dash of such a lovely car as that.

 

[3798j]

What a show. Anything that the Mormon Meteor shows up for is something special.

What a vehicle! What a speed record! Amazing.

 

[Sherlock]

I only wish, nothing that nice around these parts, everyone around here is in love with the muscle car which frankly bores me most of the time...

 

[SaxMan]

Looks horrible to me. IMHO, and Lord knows I've been known to take liberties with originality, but nothing looks as jarring to me as a non-period sound system in an otherwise original car.

I think Waltese was being sarcastic. I agree that the radio looks more out of place than a prostitute at a convent. If you really want to listen to tunes that badly and don't want to spring for either a period correct radio, or a reproduction radio that has the original look...bring a boom box.

I had been mulling an early digital-style radio for my Sprite, but after seeing that picture and how out of place it is, I'm definitely either going the period-correct route, or getting the modern repro radios that look period correct.

 

[waltesefalcon]

I wasn't being sarcastic at all; I totally think a cassette deck is what this car needed. If I owned it I'd be able to pop in one of my Twisted Sister tapes I haven't heard since 1987 and rock out while cruising in style.

 

[Guest]

I wasn't being sarcastic at all; I totally think a cassette deck is what this car needed. If I owned it I'd be able to pop in one of my Twisted Sister tapes I haven't heard since 1987 and rock out while cruising in style.

TS? I thought you were an old guy.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Older stuff is on LP Billy.

 

[HealeyRick]

I wasn't being sarcastic at all; I totally think a cassette deck is what this car needed. If I owned it I'd be able to pop in one of my Twisted Sister tapes I haven't heard since 1987 and rock out while cruising in style.

But how are you going to play your 8-tracks? I linked this hidden IPod set-up I though was pretty slick elsewhere: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=11082

 

[waltesefalcon]

Rick, my 8-tracks sadly all are gone. I went up to my moms attic a couple of years ago where I had stashed them, and the rubber wheels had melted and made a gooey mess of them all. I have a few that had plastic wheels that weren't ruined, unfortunately my In-A-Gada-Da-Vida tape was not one of those.

 

[aeronca65t]

......... unfortunately my In-A-Gada-Da-Vida tape was not one of those.

Random Fact: When I was a college freshman, I saw Iron Butterfly in the Philly Spectrum in '68. The Dead were there too. :friendly_wink:

 

[waltesefalcon]

Awesome Nial.

 

[HealeyRick]

Random Fact: When I was a college freshman, I saw Iron Butterfly in the Philly Spectrum in '68. The Dead were there too. :friendly_wink:

I'm sure no brain cells were injured that night.

 

[Guest]

Awesome Nial.

No, they were playin' somewhere else that night.


I never did get the dead, musta been all the drugs...


Neil Young either, his voice sounds like a crying baby and his guitar work sounds like someone stepping on a cat.


"EEEEEEEEH, EEEEEEEEEH........ reeeeeREEEEEEARRRRrrr reeeeeeeREEEEEEEEEEARRRrrr" :laugh:

 

[aeronca65t]

I'm sure no brain cells were injured that night.

LOL! :friendly_wink:

I was talking about this concert to someone a while ago and realized I could fully remember the car I drove to Philly from Trenton.
It was an Ivy Green '66 Mustang with 289 and 3 speed stick with disk brakes.
It belonged to the girl who I took to the concert. I have no memory of what she looked like or what her name was. :wink-new:

 

[DrEntropy]

Beautiful assembly of automotive art there.

Instead of the added audio device, why not an iPod or other such. Or stuff it in an auxiliary box hung under the facia.

...but I do remember the floor-mounted brake and clutch pedal boxes Rolls/Bentley used in the day. Ugh.

And that A6G is stunning...