Ok. I jumped the gun by one day.
This isn't the thread to make specific plans for Hershey but more like to spitball ideas and just talk bs. Happy New Year everyone!

The Unobtanium Crew will be there as usual, probably on the C row. Come by the booth for a FREE gift bag or ask my mom questions about my childhood.

I believe it's the weekend of April 21. One week after Easter. Hope the weather is as nice as last year...

I will be there with my truck & trailer full of valuable crap I mean parts.

Great. Anybody working on a build/restoration better stop by your booth and load up.

Speaking of booths, I'll do the group buy for spaces again if you guys are ok with it.

I love it when guys do this, it makes buying a lot easier when like minded guys group together. It also helps because when you walk into a booth everyone in it knows what the parts are, because they are all the same car guys.

We'll be there. I'm up for whatever everybody wants to do. I sure would like to do the Friday drive. If we can get our car done finally. If Mark can do the booth spaces that's great. I'll take 2.

Thanks for the organization Mark. I am in for a space. Looking forward to seeing everyone

i am there and knights inn

" ask my mom questions about my childhood." That's a BIG mistake.

And no more Knight's Inn for me. You should have seen the room we had last year, right out of India, New Delhi probably and adjacent to the highway. You guy's remember that wonderful aroma from the farm directly behind after they put down their manure? No, I can't do it. I don't need the Park Avenue Hilton, but Jesus Christ, give me something without all the spiders, the noise, the stink, and a 7 year old mattress. No, I just can't.

I am seriously considering coming this year and show off heat exchangers and oil tanks.

The best deal is the Econo Lodge in Hershey, I prefer the Comfort Inn on Mae but it's a little more money. Knights Inn have always scared me a little bit.

I'm planning on coming with the family and making stops on the way to or way home at Gettysburg and the flight 93 memorial.

i am in that flophouse room for maybe 5 hrs, and i dont remember a second of it

I hope to go again. I agree that a better hotel would be nice.

That's one Hershey tradition I don't participate in. I stay at a place near the park. Clean and quiet.

where's the fun in that? You guys just need more beer and you will have no memory of it.

Garold - There ain't enough tequila in the state.

I agree, I stay in a lot of hotels, and it doesn't cost that much to find something clean and decent. The Econo Lodge last year was $85 a night, and was decent.
My brother once saved $20 by staying in the Motel 5 instead of the Motel 6, no lie, there was a Motel 5. When he woke in the morning the sun was hitting the ceiling, and he saw the blood, guess they missed that on cleaning day.
Don't get cheap on hotels, bedbugs are real and all kinds of other horrors.

I'll be there. Had hoped to have the Ravenna green car re-sprayed and ready for Hershey this year, but life got in the way... Likely will be there in the silver car again this year, hopefully running on all four cylinders the entire weekend and no hotel parking lot carb work!

Looking forward to it. And Happy New Year to everyone

Ahhh, yes, Len. I remember all those lovely accouterments provided by the Knight's Inn. Not to mention the skeevy carpet.

But the clincher for me was the 3 hr session in the room adjacent to me and the wife. While most impressive, the extended conversation following was brutal. Definitely no insulation in dem walls...

Will just be getting back from the Florida Keys the week before and do plan on being there. No Knights Inn for me and the wife. She refuses to stay there. There were more interesting smells inside the room besides the manure spread out behind that place. Looking for something a bit more civilized and packed with like minded folks. Any thoughts for a better place to drink and sleep

Hershey has lots of places to stay. My wife usually goes on booking.com and reads reviews then picks a place. We did a lot of college touring for our two kids and it worked out well to find what we wanted. Reviews are never a guarantee but it worked for us.

I would love to party with the gang, and usually stop over for a couple, but I build up points with Holiday Inn so I stay there. Usually I am about 10 minutes out of Hershey someplace I like the Express - usually fairly new and clean and they give a free breakfast

I normally stay at Comfort Inn's because of the breakfast is normally decent, but Hershe negates all that since I'm out the door at 5AM, long before the free food starts.

i'll be there again, and will stay off somewhere besides a Knights Inn. Last year stayed at a Red Roof, and it was a dive.

Just bumping this to the top. I will have a car this year and planned on the Friday drive and saturday dinner.

Everyone should have confirmation of their spaces in a couple of weeks, according to the organizers, they are waiting on the vendor stickers and then space confirmations will be in the mail. I'm hoping to be in our usual spot on the C row.

I might try to make this - never have been to this gathering. I've heard enough about the Knights Inn to not stay there - they were even the cheap alternative 20+ years ago when I lived outside DC. No thanks.

Is there any camping (trailer camping) area on or around the grounds?

T

I'll be there but no more knights inn for me .

If you are looking for one of the more reasonable priced hotels like the Quality Inn or the Econo Lodge, make your reservations now. They either fill up for prices go way up once you get closer to the event.
I just checked prices and right now they are:
Econo Lodge $98
Comfort Inn $157

The cheapest and probably scariest is only $43, bring your sleeping bag, can of raid, and any other survival things.

RODEWAY INN & SUITES

1733 East Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA, 17033, US

Hope to see everyone there, stop by the Unobtanium booth for a FREE gift bag full of good stuff, we are sponsored by Porsche, Recaro, Hagerty, Restoration Design, Stoddard, just to name a few, which means gift bags full of lots of very cool stuff, and it's all FREE!!!!

Just made reservations at The Super 8 Motel at Hershey - $108/night includes hot breakfast and some covered parking, all with pretty good reviews on Trip Advisor.

Checked rates at Knight's Inn - $84.00 a night, breakfast included so long as you like stale Cocoa Puffs served out of a friggen bubble gum vending machine.

Room Booked, I'll be there again this year, hopefully I won't get sick this year.

Len - is this the place you are staying at?

Super 8 Hershey
210 Hockersville Road, Hershey, PA, 17033


It is definitely time to move on from the Knights

I'm booked at the super 8 Friday and Saturday night. Considering the auto cross Sunday.

Yes, that's it.

I am booked. No more knights inn

I booked last night at the Comfort Inn. While living in austere conditions such as southwest Asia or Panama made me appreciate an actual bed, it also gave me a keen interest in not contracting something infectious. So long Knights Inn

RG, I owe you a bottle of wine or something

......Autocross ? in what car pray tell ?

hehe. I only have one. It has achieved unicorn status: heard of but never seen! We'll take care of that this year.

That is a negative, but I will have more of my wine to give to happy 914 owners this year.

Really enjoyed the wine....awesome.

I will bring the complete line of wines this year. Last year we lost our cab and zin, grapes were not good and they made a really bad wine......200 gallons pumped to the woods.

We even did a chardonnay for the ladies.....or an early happy hour.

Car is on the lift and getting preped...can't wait. Last years Friday drive was great.

Group buy thread for spaces - sign up now!

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=303310

I'm in for 2 spaces. Now the pressure is really on to get my car done in time to make it out.

Ok guys, are we going to do a drive on Friday? I'm planning on it even if I have to wing it. Who's planning on being there Friday ? I need and excuse to have lunch at the Devine Swine across from the Renaissance Fair. About 15 minutes from Hershey and I've never been to Gettysburg.

Yes. I'm not planning it but we'll be doing a drive on friday. It tradition.

Great!

I'm in for the Friday drive.