Hey Gang,

We're looking at hitting Hershey a day early this year due in part to the AACA museums Porsche exhibit. I've been chatting with some of the local boys and were trying to make a day of it. Everything is in rough planning but it looks like this:

FRIDAY APRIL 19th:

8:45 - AACA Museum. Stage in parking lot for 9:00am entry.
11:00 - Meet/Stage in Museum Parking lot.
12:30 - Lunch - Haufbrauhaus, Abbottstown, PA.
2:00 - Drive to Gettsburg.
2:30 - Gettysburg - Group Rate (16 or more) $10.00 per person. (cutoff date for Gettysburg group rate is April 12th)
7:00 - Underdog's for Wings

Museum Address:
AACA Museum
161 Museum Drive
Hershey, PA 17033
http://www.aacamuseum.org/

Lunch Address:
Hofbrauhaus
135 W King St.
Abbottstown, PA 17301
http://germanfoodinpa.com/

Gettysburg Address:
Gettysburg National Military Park
1195 Baltimore Pike
Gettysburg, PA
http://www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm

Underdog Address:
Underdog Sports Bar & Grill
3100 Paxton Street
Harrisburg, Pa 17111
717-564-5150
http://www.underdogsportsbarandgrill.com/

Confirmed:

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Donald
Brad Mayeur
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Bill W (museum and lunch)
Rob G (museum and lunch)
Jerry M (museum and lunch)
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Hm, I think I can so this . I am in.

I am usually there on Friday, not sure if I will be there in time for the museum but I will see how it goes.

I think we're actually talking about getting in on Thursday, so we can hit the museum first thing Friday

I want to get in on Thurs. I am taking my Family Medicine Board exam on Thurs and want to leave town afterwards. I will need some drink.

I will try to get there at meet time Friday morning. Can someone post the address to the museum.

AACA Museum
161 Museum Drive
Hershey, PA 17033

They have a mapquest feature on the site. Just plug in your addy and it will give you Mapquets directions

Thanks Scotty , it looks like a 3 hr drive for me. I will try to leave by 5 am.

If able, this is a better, more interesting and more fun reason for me to go to Hershey than the swap meet - come in a day earlier and leave a day earlier...

I'm in,

Not sure what I will be driving.

Can someone send me the hotel info?

1071 East Main Street
Palmyra PA 17078


For reservations, call 717-838-1324 or 717-838-8902.

Updated with lunch and Gettsburg information.

Here's a thought, as there are only so many hours in the day; if we could trim the museum time back to two hours, I think (me personally) that would give us plenty of time to shoot pics of cars and Oooo and Aaaa. That would potentially get us to lunch and Gettysburg an hour earlier...

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Not sure. I love me some Hofbrauhaus though.

I plan to make Hershey again this year, but not sure if I would be able to get there thursday. If I can I will have my truck & hopefully a trailer full of crap junk $hit um, valuable parts so I would need to bum a ride with someone for Fridays events.

Talking about this exhibit right now at the 356 POG brunch. Let us know when you plan to go up, it may work with this crowd if you don't mind 10-15 356 guys caravanning.

I brought it up to D. Miller and has was going to talk to Wills about it as well. Hope this doesn't get TOO big

Sounds like a great day to me, I'm in. Also after Gettysbury I'll bail out and head home, then rejoin you next morning at the meet.

I'm planning to go to the Museum Weds this week and will post Pictures afterwards.

Doug

can dANNY come along?

No

count me in Eric, want to caravan?

Meet you at Hwy. 30 and the Turnpike around 8:30-9:00 Thursday AM

Hell yeah... let's caravan. We'll be staying in Bettendorf, IA (probably) Wednesday night. Leaving at 6:00AM. Last time that put us in Hershey around 7:30 I believe. Just in time for wings and brews at Underdogs.

I will do my best to make it this year. Sounds like good fun!

add me to the interested list.

That is a little early can we make it 10?

You'll have to catch up...

when exactly is the swap meet?

APRIL 20TH 2013.

http://cpa-pca.org/swap/index.html

Cool... thx for the info. Never been & perhaps it's time I went.

Lot's of time John you can finish her up!

What other New Englanders are going?

Simple route to drive through the battlefield, little and big roundtops and the confederate line. takes about 20 minutes.

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Darn

I would really like to do the museum but I can't get there Thu night... having trouble moving things around as it is to get there Friday night...

Still up in the air

You feeling OK Todd? You look a little pale. Do you have a fever? I think you should probably take the day off and have a long and restful weekend.

Alrighty then, spend yesterday up at the AACA Museum and enjoyed the exhibites. So much to see, if you go you'll love it. Here's pictures as promised.

more from Hershey.

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I took a lot more but this is enough. Besides the Porche cars, there are many amazing vintage cars, busses, trucks, bikes and displays that you will enjoy.
It's a realatively new Museum, 3 stories plantly to see including a Drive in Movie and Dinner inside.

Enjoy, see you there.

Doug

Why yes ....now that you mention it erc ....yes I think I might be

Its family stuff

Most likely I will only be able to come down Friday and have to leave Saturday afternoon

Will still work on it

Thought you were going to enter your creamsicle in the Hershey concours ... or was that some other concours?

Nice pics. Thanks Doug.

Should we check with the museum and restaurant for reservation requirements? Advance tickets?

Probably would be a good idea since half of the Porsche universe will be in town. How about a good head count on who is planning on being part of this so we can go ahead and look into getting special priviledges

I don't think that the Hofbrauhaus takes reservations. For lunch, they will not be needed anyway. Abbottstown is ~35 miles from Hershey and 15 miles from Gettysburg. Its usually quiet for lunch.

I've got a route that is more or less direct from Hershey to Abbottstown, but keeps us uff the highways (15, 83, 30) as much as possible. We will take 30 from Abbottstown into Gettysburg. 60 miles, about 1.5 hours driving time not counting the stop for lunch.

Zach

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Here is a quick screen cap of my proposed route. Once we get out of Harrisburg its mostly rural and hilly until we get to the lunch stop in Abbottstown (circled in red). Then its Rt 30 into Gettysburg. Can take a similar route back, or just take 15 back up to Harrisburg.

Zach

Looks like a good route to me Zach.
Also, here's a webb site for the AACA Museum that has info for purchasing ticket
on line and also info on group rates and tour guides for groups. As for individually buying tickets on line, not a bad idea. Could save us a lot of time getting in and out.

http://www.aacamuseum.org/visit/rates.aspx

Doug

Okay, I am off on Thursday and will arrive Thursday evening. I am in.

I'm in and Brad Mayuer will be with me. We may need a ride or two for Friday's activities since I plan to bing the truck & trailer full of crap I mean very valuable & rare parts.

I'll likely be in the same boat.
Can't fit a table, easy up, chairs, cooler, and all the other stuff I usually bring to Hershey in the 914 (if its even driveable.)
Course, if I really get a bee in my bonnet, I could flat tow it.

Same here. Family, VUE, maybe a trailer for transmission cores.

I'm planning on driving the 944 so I'll have one seat. You 2 can duke it out at the hotel. I'll be handling bets for all that want in