Allpar at Chryslers at Carlisle, 2008
The next Chryslers at Carlisle show is July 11-13, 2008. Book a ticket now! Remember to put down allpar as your club so you can join us for the cheap-lunch-and-more deal - and so we can get a good tent!
Any Dodge, Jeep, Chrysler, Plymouth, DeSoto, AMC, Nash, Hudson, Rambler, Sunbeam, Cricket, Maxwell, Chalmers, Dodge Brothers, or other vehicle ever associated with Chrysler Corporation is welcome — from the 19th Century up until the newest 2009 Journey or Challenger!
This year, we may have mugs as well as the T-shirt-and-lunch deal, for our special 10th anniversary celebration!
T-shirt-and-lunch deal
T-shirts will be given out at the show. Please indicate your size! We cannot mail t-shirts...well, we can, if you contact us and ask for it, but it'll cost another $6 within the US and Canada. That's our cost...envelope plus postage.
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If you signed up to show your car at Carlisle and indicated allpar.com as your club - $9 (this is at or below our cost!). If there is more than one person in your group, change the amount or send some money with a note via Paypal (at $9 per person) - this applies mainly to one or two close friends or family members and your kids.
If you are showing your car at Carlisle and indicated a different club - $22 - again, to add people, change the amount of send some money with a note via Paypal (at $22 per person). This still includes lunch and a T.
If you are not showing a car at Carlisle and just want to drop by - $18 (or contact us for special arrangements). There's really no reason not to show your car, though, if it's a Chrysler Corporation, AMC, or Chrysler Group vehicle.
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Hotel accommodations
Information on lodging: in a block of rooms | general motel information
(Based on $100 or less per night, 2 adults, booked for 7/11 and 7/12, within 20 direct miles, using the hotel's website, as of 3:24PM CT 2/4/08, thanks to Stratuscaster...)
Rodeway Inn - Dillsburg:
$81 (1Q) / $86 (2DBL or 1K)
Comfort Inn West - Mechanicsburg:
$97 (1DBL)
EconoLodge - Mechanicsburg:
$72 (2DBL or 1K)
EconoLodge - Wormleysburg:
$68 (1K or 1Q or 2DBL)
Rodeway Inn - New Cumberland:
$86 (1K or 2DBL) / $90 (2Q)
Comfort Inn - New Cumberland:
$90 (1DBL) / $95 (1K or 2DBL) / $99 (1K larger room)
Quite a few hotels in Carlisle proper are over $100/night. For $150/night, I can get a room with 2 queen beds and a full kitchen. It's all in where you look.
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What you can look forward to
On Day One in 2007, most of the day was spent relaxing and touring the show; we got the banners up, the giveaways out, and the tablecloth down. At 2 pm, Bob O’Neil spoke on budget restorations and answered numerous questions from the audience on a variety of topics. Then, at 3 pm, Mike Holler talked about fuel-saving gadgets, gizmos, and technologies.
The catNET team arrived at around 3 pm with their turbine-powered racing kart. This amazing-looking gizmo is powered by an ancestor of the turbines used in Chrysler cars, which came within 24 hours of being approved for production in one of the K-based vehicles - and was nearly approved in 1966 as well. Boasting immense torque from a small, light engine with few moving parts, the turbine could burn most fuels easily - this one runs on biodiesel though it originally ran on alcohol - and in the final form engineered by Chrysler, actually had decent gas mileage. The one on this kart was originally used as a starter for a fighter jet.
Even as it was being set up, the turbokart drew a constant stream of visitors to the tent; and as long as it remained, it attracted people, drawing them from their path into the gravitational well of the Allpar tent.
Allpar Event at the Tent, Saturday
At 10:30 am, we started out through the field in search of cars belonging to people who had signed the sheet at the tent. The cars and trucks were truly impressive this year, as we looked at three Chargers, four Daytonas, and an assortment of other vehicles spanning the years, ranging in size from Neon to Dakota. At noon we returned for the cookout, with Michael Stanhope acting both as food procurement officer and chef (and Dave’s wife acting as setup chief). Awards and trophies were given out after lunch, then door prizes to anyone who wanted them. The Neon throttle body was not offered again but we did give out a 1992 TBI driveability manual; a 1966 Dodge brochure in mint condition; a new oxygen sensor for a 2.2/2.5 TBI; a radar detector tripper; and other goodies. The GM oil filter didn’t find any takers.
At 2 pm, Bob Sheaves showed a Chrysler video on how turbine cars work, and then described the many technologies that stemmed from turbine-car research, including the modern catalytic converter design and variable-nozzle turbochargers - patents which brought Chrysler no small amount of revenue. He also described the sharing of turbine technology with Ford and GM.
Sunday
Sunday is the most relaxed day at Carlisle, with some people arriving early and trailering their cars, others making one or two key purchases and driving off, and others arriving late and hitting areas they missed, or enjoying the shade and company of the Allpar tent, which started to fill up around 10 am. The catNET crowd showed up, sans kart, to get feedback on the show; and Bruce Brewster arrived in his Cordoba-style 1977 Dodge Charger Daytona, on his way to Carlisle’s winners’ circle, after placing first in his class.
We had to leave early, at 1 pm; but there were about a dozen Allparians still at the tent when we left.
For next year, these changes will be made:
- Somewhat higher pricing for the T-shirt-and-lunch deal, since we lost about $300 on that.
- Better coordination of “tent-watching” - people will sign up to stay at the tent for various times of the day.
- Another literature stand!
- We have to be strict about only giving food to those wearing the Allpar T-shirts. Also, we have to buy half as much food! Live and learn. On the lighter side, the chef is being rewarded with hamburgers, hot dogs, and sausages for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the foreseeable future.
- More coordination of judging - including getting locations on the signup sheet, making sure people know about the signup sheet in advance, and rating each car along a number of attributes to avoid getting as many “ties.”
- Computer tallying of judges’ rating sheets!
- Trophies with Mopars rather than “generic” figures which almost invariably are Fords or Chevys.
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