Let's talk events. The Belltown (East Hampton, CT) meet is always the first Sunday in August. This is a heavy prewar meet with two msin fields - prewar cars gwt the premier field. A great meet with a cut off around 1990.
The swap has shrunk significantly but the show draws a lot of interesting independents, brass , Classics, prod through 42 and of course A, T & early V8 Ford.
Post your favorites, where, when and why...
Steve, that 32 Hupp front end is Classy! Are you taking your A or Packard to the event this year?
@JohnBloom That was one of Dave Romani’s cars that were auctioned off back in January. It was a steal at $24k.
@Hupp31 Wow, what a ton of car for that money.
@Hupp31 We have it pictured already in the Hupp topic?
@alsancle I don’t see it. I’ll have to see if the photos from the auction still come up.
@JohnBloom It was a great car. It had a cosmetic restoration with a very decent original interior. It was the smaller eight, F-222.
@JohnBloom There are a lot of photos (Not of this car in particular) in this thread.
https://app.rumbleseat.com/rumblefeed/feed/11627
@BillSmith
More Belltown guys - sorry thought I had another Hup picture. The Packard club sedaan is a fantastic origibal. Alsancle knows the red Packard I am sure. Our old 30 roadster mixes it up with shiny Model As here.
I added photos of Dave Romani’s 32 model F to the Hupp thread.
@SteveMackCT I love club sedans.
Love the Marmon Steve! Early August probably gets a little warm?
I’ll have to try to get to Belltown this year as I’ve never been. My favorite show of the year is usually the Sunday in the Park concours and Gathering of the marques show at Lime Rock on Labor Day weekend. There was an especially large turnout of prewar cars last year which I hope they will continue. Always a good number of competition cars in the concours, as well.
Love the Hupp 32 plate. Nice touch.
Here are a few from Lime Rock last year.
@Hupp31 Love the Kissel!
@JohnBloom not sure yet. Maybe the A this year.
@alsancle yeah prior years in the 30 A coat on the run over but t-shirt coming home. Working on getting @Hupp31 to go this year!!
@SteveMackCT I’m going to try to get there this year. The trick is finding a route that gets across the river without hitting any highways. I picture driving an antique on I-84 something like this.
@Hupp31 I will map it for you or you can follow us. We cross Rocky Hill to Glastonbury. 4 minutes at highway speed...
@SteveMackCT That’s what I was thinking was the most direct route. Otherwise you’d need to go all the way down to Middletown and cross the Arrigoni.
Steve, how many post 1975 cars typically show up? Love the early cars you posted.
@69GoatMan tje show is largely prewar 30% Postwar through say 75 40% and post 75 20%. One of CT's better shows. Modifieds are allowed in a field across a small road from the two main field but tend not to attend.
AACA members and CT folks might like fa ct thatSteve Rossi "MC"s the show.
@SteveMackCT Reminds me of the ACD renunion where the Glen Pray cars and Samco cars are allowed in a parking lot down the road.
@69GoatMan I see that this year’s featured marque is Pontiac and it’s open to cars up to 1986, so I would guess that should bring some later cars.
@alsancle I think they moved them closer in recent years.
Steve, were there any Camaros or Firebirds?
@1980Z28Man yep. I need to post my old 71... Long gone but still fun to remember...
@SteveMackCT Yes please! Maybe we need. a HS cars topic. I'm always looking for a reason to post my GTO.
The red roadster looks like a Marmon. Have any of you read the book "Cruise of the Rolling Junk"? It's about a recently married couple who drove from CT to AL in 1920, with a lot of misadventures along the way. I think they drove a 1917 Marmon Roadster. The book wasn't published until recently. F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald were on the trip.
@Peerless28 Thanks that sounds like a cool read. Recently discovered?
The Marmon was with the Dragone's for a while. Those guys are pretty good about bringing in interesting early iron to this show.
@SteveMackCT F. Scott was low on dough, and serialized it in MOTOR Magazine in the 20s or 30s. Not published as a book until about 10 years ago. Easy to find a copy online. Granted - the couple had lots of mechanical problems with the used Marmon - but the cover of the book I got just used a picture of a '54 Chevy or something instead of a Model 34 Marmon.
@Peerless28 yeah because of the striking similarities between a Marmon and a 54 Chevy!! So funny... I will pick up a copy!
@SteveMackCT Will try to paste a pic of the book cover I got, plus an excerpt from the book.
@Peerless28 I watched the first two espisodes of "Zelda" with my wife. She came from a semi-moneyed background and F. Scott was stationed near by getting read to ship off to Europe for WWI.
@alsancle She was a real dish, though. I can see why he agreed to get married/go on a road trip with her. I read somewhere that Scarlett Johansson is to be in a film about her called "The Beautiful and the Damned".
