Allpar New Jersey Meet, October 4, 2009
October 4, 2009, 10 am to 4 pm; rain date, October 11. Open to all Chrysler Corporation and AMC vehicles. See our 2008 show coverage!
This is a nice show, small enough to be easy and friendly and comfortable, large enough to occupy your time for six hours. There are big trophies and raffle prizes including (in 2008) $50 gift certificates for Year One. There are ten registration categories, and new categories can be created for vehicles that don’t fit into any of them. Judging is by popular vote. All AMC and Chrysler products are eligible.
The meet has traditionally been held by the New Jersey/New York Slant Six club, and starting in 2007 it has been jointly held with Allpar. In 2008 we had over 50 cars despite some rain early in the day; in 2007, we had 33 cars, which was double the number for 2006; and we expect 70 cars for 2009.
We’ll try to have enough hot dogs for everyone, and you can bring food and a small (table-top) gas grill if you like. The price to show your car is $8 per carload of people, waived for those who have Donor Level IIII status on the Allpar forums (just contact me in advance!). Half of the club’s net is donated to charity. There is a 50/50 raffle which in 2007 ran to over $70, and numerous prizes are raffled as “second chances.”
This is a nice, comfortable, low-pressure meet - ideal for first-timers.
Directions
The location will - we hope! - be the New Jersey Agricultural Museum, just off Route 1 South, in North Brunswick. From the Turnpike, take Route 18 West to Route 1 South and stay in the right lane. It’s past the Sears and Ryder’s Lane exits if you’re on Route 1 South — the next exit after Ryder’s Lane (College Farm Road). When you take the exit, bear right onto the country lane. At this point you’ll be going slowly enough to see our signs.
The show itself is far enough from the highway for the traffic noise to be almost nonexistent, with indoor bathrooms in the Agricultural Museum (take a tour of the museum while you’re there).
This is a SMALL exit. Watch for it as soon as you pass Ryder’s Lane! We will have a sign posted if you aren’t early. Quite probably it will be the SAME sign. The Slant Six Club will also have signs...
We might have the end-of-guardrail sign next year. Or we might not. It’s no fun posting that one.
If you’re coming from Route 1 North, use the Route 18 West exit to make a U-turn and get back onto Route 1 South — or, if you want a safer U-turn, cross the bridge into Highland Park and make the U-turn after the big Honda dealer (Woodbridge Avenue towards Highland Park, over Route 1, then onto Route 1 South).
You can also take Route 287 to Route 18 East to Route 1; or the Turnpike to Route 18 West to Route 1 South; or the Parkway to Route 1 South. Route 80 is around 40 minutes to the North via Turnpike; Route 78 is even closer. (Map courtesy of Google Maps.)
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