Travel Day Five

Today, Friday was our Chandler-Cleveland meeting. We had sixteen members come to Hershey. One member was here from Austria!

We walked the swap meet fields for another six hours today...we are both getting tired, but having a blast.

After the meeting we headed to Hershey's Chocolate world since it was on the end of the show we were on at the time. We sure didn't want to walk any extra miles...hehe



So much chocolate...so little time.....hope my trainer Heather isn't reading my blog today.





After the chocolate buying it's back to the fields for more walking. Never thought I would be able to walk this much with Roger. Thanks to my trainer Heather for helping me get into shape.
Until tomorrow.....happy quilting.
Shelia

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Travel Day Four-Part Three

After six hours of walking and searching for parts we headed out for a quick trip to a local quilt shop and then to the AACA Museum.

Here we have arrived at Quiltmaker's Cottage.


Lot's of beautiful fabric.


A very quaint quilt shop. Lot's of ladies from the car show were visiting the shop.








Don't think I need this....


A few goodies from the shop.



Next we were off to the AACA museum. They have done a great job with all the sections of the museum. Below are just a few pictures from our walk through.



The Hershey Kiss-o-mobile was out front when we arrived.


Belownare some of the cars we saw. A ton of cars in the exhibit, but unable to post all the photos.




















A chandler hood ornament in the collection.
















After walking through the museum we were exhausted and still have to get back so we can meet the others for supper. It's been a long day.

When we arrived back in our room we had a note and chocolate hammer left for us from the repair man who fixed a leaky sink.



Roger bought some tools today, so I'll show those tomorrow, need some sleep, another long day tomorrow.
Shelia

Travel Day Four-Part Two

We saw lots of antique cars today, amazing how many are in one place. Usually at a car show you may have a few antique cars but the majority are muscle cars or hot rods.

Roger is always talking about a 65 Riveria that he had and loved. We saw this one at the show.



The Riveria was a beautiful green.


Above is a 1906 Pope.


This cord was gorgeous.


Roger was hoping that the wooden roller coaster would be running, but Hershey Park was closed for the season. I'm o.k. With that since he would have wanted me to ride that thing.


Below is Another antique car, but I can't remember what model it was.


Look at this big wheel bike. Look how tall that thing is. I would need a ladder to even get on the thing.


More to come in part three.
Shelia

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Travel Day Four- More From Hershey--Part One

Today was our second day at the car show/swap meet in Hershey. As I walked around with Roger I began noticing all of the different "vehicles" being used by show attendees to carry their treasures. They are so varied and innovative that I decided to make this part of my coverage of the show. I think you will find them just as intriging and some even funny.

This first one was like a portable trash collector. Huge wheels and a lid that tilted up to add your treasures, and a long handle on the rear so you didn't have to bend over.


This one was a rigged up cart which was not commercial but put together with all kinds of parts. Battery powered, had a locking box on back and basket on front. Seat was large enough for two people to ride.


This was our cart which had sides that could flip down. This came in handy at lunch time, we found a shady tree and were able to sit on the cart for a few minutes to eat some chicken fingers.


This was one of those Jazzy kart things, lots of people riding those.


These wheeled basket things were all over. Some with four wheels and some with only back wheels and a stand for front. People were carrying a lot of things in these. Most added a bag of some kind of bag to line the inside of the basket so small things did not fall through the basket.


This is a huge version of the cart we had, about four times as big. I could have laid down for a nap in this thing. Guys were hauling tires and fenders out in these things.


This guy was precious, always smiling every time I saw him. This thing was like one of the old train cars that you pumped the handle to make it move. He kept thing thing rocking. Talk about arm muscles! He just pushed and pulled the handle all over the place, and it would fly.


Now this guy had his jazzy thing souped up with an added wagon being pulled behind, saw alot of this kind of additions. On those electric jazzy carts.


Now this is a bad picture but I still think you can see the item. He has taken one of those jogging strollers and modified it to carry his stuff. Those big wheels made it really easy to push.


This guy brought his luggage cart with a milk crate strapped on to carry his stuff.


Another jazzy thing with added pull behind.


Now this guy wanted to make sure that when he did buy something he had enough bungie cords to keep it tethered to his dolly cart! He must have had 100 bungie cords on this thing.


Hey thing guy had a good idea, he attached his folding chair to his cart. He could stop anywhere and take a break.


Another dolly but this guy has two milk crates on his.


Anyone have an antique baby carriage? This guy had the wheeled section and added crates for the carriage part.


Now this guy really had his ducks in a row. This was great. He took a cart that is normally pulled behind a lawn mower, added a large wheel to the front of the cart, added a battery powered motor, handle bars from a bike with the controls. All he had to do wasbtouch the button on the handle bar with one hand while walking beside the cart. He could guide where he wanted it to go also with the same one hand. Pretty cool rig.


This kept me busy in between looking for Chandler parts, kinda fun to see how everyine deals with the heavy auto parts. Believe me you don't want to carry some fender that weighs 50 pounds and is large and ackward miles and miles back to your car. All of these contraptions serve a very needed purpose. Amazing to see how everyone uses resources they have to serve this purpose.

Better get this posted, part two will follow later tonight. We're off to meet some of the other Chandler Club members for supper tonight.
Shelia

Travel Day Three......Hershey!

You can tell you are in Hershey, even the street light's are shapped like Hershey's Kisses....can you see the silver kiss street lamp?


These have the silver wrappers off so you can see the chocolate kiss.....hehehehe.


We arrived in Hershey PA this morning and headed to the car show/swap meet. Below is a copy of the program, it's 126 pages long. So let me explain how big this car show is... There are 11 different fields covering 9 1/2 miles with thousands of vendors in 715 different categories with car stuff for sell and used parts. Then there is 2 miles butt to butt of show cars to see. Today we walked for over 8 hours and only covered 1/2 of one of the 11 fields. OMG! We are both exhausted. But my boy is having a blast.


Here we go shopping......We brought a wagon with us to carry our finds.


We started out at 8:00 a.m. And Roger quickly found some old oil bottles at a great price...I spent the rest of the afternoon guarding them as every man who passed our cart was offering Roger seven and eight times what we paid for them...glad he got such a great deal.


My baby...shopping.


Now this guy is desperate for parts. He is wearing a sign around his neck saying "i need steudebaker parts, any part". I also saw two kids about 10 years old with a large wagon both were wearing signs "let me be your parts hauler, we're for rent". They were hauling all kinds of parts for people. Young entrepreaneurs.


Rows, rows and oh my gosh more rows of stuff.


Look at the antique motorized tandum bicycle. Now that is my kind of bicycle.


Gurading the stash!


Automobile literature is a big deal. We found an owners manual for a 1928 Chandler, but we have a manual for our 1929.


This is my idea of a golf cart....sure wish I could have rented this sucker for the week! This thing was sharp.


Oh my goodness, another table of guages.


My baby looking, looking and more looking.


Another great find was 1929 auto tags.


I found the ONE non auto related vendor. She had vintage jewelry and some shade..hehehe.





This is a motor-meter for the Chandler. A great find.





Our club is The Chandler-Cleveland Automobile Club and I did find some ads on the Cleveland cars.


I did find some literature on the Chandler automobiles. These are sales fliers from 1928 & 1929. A good find.


Roger's new t-shirt.


Bins, bins and more bins of car parts, screws etc.


This is the beginning of what they call the car coral, the show cars for judging.


One of the antique cars scattered amoung the vendors.


See the roller coaster in the background?


More cool cars.


Beautiful autos.


We are back at the hotel now, a hot shower and a great meal....now to relax and get ready to do it all over again tomorrow. We hope to be able to get to the Antique Automobile club of America Museum?
Until later..happy quilting,
Shelia