2012 Allpar at Chryslers at Carlisle
Trophies and giveaways will be given out at 2:00 pm Saturday at the tent.
Carlisle 2011 worked out pretty well, so we're not making many changes:
- We’ll hold the community dinners on Friday and Saturday nights at the Country Club Diner on Route 11 near Route 81. It’s quiet and not many people go there.
- We’ll get ice for the free water, and use better cups.
- If we can get satisfactory ones, plaques instead of trophies.
- Recognize people who come every year.
- Community lunches were a big success.
- We’ll order 15 chairs instead of ten, and leave the car outside of the tent
- We’ll plan for burgers as well as dogs on Saturday.
- Lunch starts at noon and you should really show up by 12:30. If you arrive after 12:30, we can’t guarantee there will still be food! (We gave out some refunds in 2011 but would really rather you show up at a predictable time.)
- The trophy run signup sheet will be done before the show and we might mail out materials to be placed on the cars to make them easier to identify.
- We will either skip the dash plaques or do fewer of them.
- Fewer giveaways... just the best stuff. This year we’ll probably do a raffle style.
Once again we'll have lunch at the tent for $6, with advance signup.
Here's what we're planning:
- A tent for you to hang out in, toss your stuff in, meet other Allpar members in
- Community lunches on Friday and Saturday — thanks, Daytona Dan Peterson (Saturday) and John Hummel (Friday).
- Talk by writer Greg McCausey (we should probably ask him to do it before listing it)
- Another Bob Lincoln tech talk
- Be sure to be at the tent by 2 pm on Saturday afternoon for the trophy awarding and giveaways
How to sign up
First, follow this link to get to the Carlisle page. Make sure you select allpar.com as your club. It’s really easy!
Then, make your hotel reservations. We’ll have recommendations here soon, but in essence, if you aren’t made of money, Mechanicsburg and Harrisburg provide better rooms at lower cost. If you can sleep through anything and don’t care about security, Rodeway Inn is waiting for you right on the main drag in Carlisle.
Finally, use the following form to reserve a place for lunch. At Carlisle, $6 will normally buy you very little, so our lunches are an amazing deal.
Sign up for the Allpar Lunches
Note: these terms apply for anyone who signs up and lists Allpar as their club.
If you signed up to show your car at Carlisle and indicated allpar.com as your club - $6 (this is far less than you’d pay for a concession lunch of similar size and quality). If there is more than one person in your group, change the amount or send some money with a note via Paypal (at $6 per person) - this applies to close friends or family members.
If you indicated a different club or are not showing a car at Carlisle, - $12 - again, to add people, change the amount of send some money with a note via Paypal (at $12 per person). This still includes lunch and a mug.
Mugs will be part of the lunch deal for the first 30 people to sign up.
Trophies and awards
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Some of the Carlisle events
Carlisle always has lectures, seminars, and meetings with big name racers, rodders, and classic engineers, along with a retro dealership featuring “factory fresh” classic cars, and the legendary swap meet, where you can get anything from literature to unidentifyable, rusty, twisted pieces of presumably classic metal. Admittedly most of the swap meet material is for rear drive cars and trucks but there is a lot for modern stuff as well, not to mention tools and literature. Some of the displays include the invitational area and, at least in 2010, the kewl “barn finds” building. There is also a kid area and the “woman’s oasis.”
Hotels
If you don’t care about noise and don’t mind an old fashioned place with doors that open directly onto the parking lot, Rodeway of Carlisle and similar hotels are relatively inexpensive and close. If you don’t mind paying a lot, any major hotel along the Carlisle Pike will take you in. A somewhat noisy but more conventional motel, albeit with somewhat small rooms (and low prices) is the Microtel in Enola. Rates for hotels within 30 minutes of the show usually run around $70 to $130 per night. Crossing the river to Harrisburg proper seems to cut rates as does going southwest of Carlisle.
Kid-friendly
Regarding the G rating (Bob O’Neill’s text):
As ambassadors of Allpar.com, we should be role models everywhere we go. If we (and we do) agree that these forums must be 'G' rated then we need to try to live up to that standard ourselves. We should make every effort to use 'proper' language and behavior when we meet people at local events as well as our annual meet at Carlisle.
When someone new or even members of Allpar meet with us, both the attitude and behavior that we exhibit should convey that Allpar is a family oriented group of friends. When we use these forums we should lead by example just like we do when we are meeting people in public and trying to get them to join us.
Allpar.com is a 'G' rated family oriented 'club.' So we must behave in a way that promotes that.
REGISTER HERE - REMEMBER TO SELECT ALLPAR AS YOUR CLUB!
Don’t want to travel to Carlisle for some reason? Join us in New Jersey!
