While we were in Hershey Pennsylvania last month we visited the
AACA Automobile Museum
If you love old cars, this is the place for you.
3 stories of cars on display, some are here permanently, some cars leave and are replaced with others.
The museum is immaculate they have a huge variation of cars and the staff is so nice and helpful.
There are some interactive displays for the young and the young at heart.
Turn the wheel!
We are pretending to drive a Tucker 48.
When you turn the steering wheel the center headlight comes on and moves as you turn the wheel.
Tucker Engineering designed this feature, known as the
"Cyclops Headlight"
to improve safety when driving into turns in the dark.
The light only turns on when steering 10 degrees in either direction from center.
The radio plays as you "drive" and plays advertisements and music from the 1940's.
I am not old enough to remember this.
Did you know this?
The word "jalopy" first appeared in print around 1925 as a "cheap. old or broken down automobile".
It's many variations also include jalupie, jaloppy and jalopi.
Some think the word is derived from Jalapa,
a town in mexico to which many old broken down vehicles were taken.
1932 Ford A
1927 Ford Model T Tudor
1896 Benton 5 Passenger Sedan
This is less than half of the pictures I took...
I'll spread this out and show some more of the cars soon.
