2023 300 Club International meet in Hershey, PA

[Big_John]

I attended my first 300 club meet this past weekend. What a great time! @Ripinator was there too!

It was at the AACA Museum with the hotel right next door. We got a guided tour of the museum that included the restoration shops and storage.

I didn't take as many pics as I should have, (as usual).

Hotel lot.

Rip's car and mine.

 

[Big_John]

One of the cars in attendance was this '52 (?) Cunningham. Powered by a 331 Hemi! Cunningham Sports Cars - Briggs Cunningham

 

[Big_John]

A couple pics from the lower buildings at the museum.

 

[Big_John]

We visited the Gardner Restoration shop on Friday.

This Lincoln was stunning!

Ghia Imperial. I couldn't get a good pic of the front.

 

[Samplingman]

So the 300 club is not just letter cars?

 

[Big_John]

So the 300 club is not just letter cars?

That is the 300 club International's main focus. Anyone was welcome though and some showed up in other cars. I was hesitant but @Ripinator told me they welcomed the non letter cars to the meets.


There is a 300 club that does all the cars, but they seem to be kind of stagnate.

 

[saforwardlook]

I attended my first Chrysler 300 Club meet some 30 years ago. The only other 300 Club meet I attended was the most recent one before this New York meet that was in Los Angeles, California back in October of 2022. I too was very surprised at the attendance, the really great club members who were very friendly and their meeting preparers who were very competent in setting up these meetings. We got to spend a day at Jay Leno's garage and toured one of the movie studios out here as well and the Peterson Car Museum in Los Angeles on the second day. I had my all original 29K mile 300F there pictured below.

The car parked alongside mine was a 1958 Chrysler 300D with electronic fuel injection owned by Per Blixt who is Jay's chief body and paint guy. Per is pictured directly behind his 300D in this photo......................

I plan on attending more meets in the future given the great time I had at my last one. So I can second your favorable experience in New York - really great club!

 

[crv]

Thanks for sharing. I'll take the black 300C

 

[Ripinator]

That is the 300 club International's main focus. Anyone was welcome though and some showed up in other cars. I was hesitant but @Ripinator told me they welcomed the non letter cars to the meets.


There is a 300 club that does all the cars, but they seem to be kind of stagnate.

Yes. The 300 Intl club graciously welcomes non-letter 300s. Also, the other 300 inc club welcomes any and all 300s. They have recently installed new leadership and are again on the move.

Here are some of the photos I took at the meet:

 

[Ripinator]

A few more:

 

[Fireflite56]

I was there too (I'm actually shown in the photo of the train room, wearing the orange flannel) and came with the Parks in their '64 300K. Lots of nice cars and people at this meet, which was only the second full 300 club meet I have attended. The weather was beautiful all week too.

 

[Big_John]

I was there too (I'm actually shown in the photo of the train room, wearing the orange flannel) and came with the Parks in their '64 300K. Lots of nice cars and people at this meet, which was only the second full 300 club meet I have attended. The weather was beautiful all week too.

Yes, I think I remember you. You were talking to the guy in the red 300B ahead of us in line on Friday morning.

We had to leave for home after the resto shop as we had another commitment.

 

[Fireflite56]

Yes, that's correct - I'm usually easy to remember since there aren't a lot of younger attendees. You must have had the brown convertible then since I remember that being behind his B Friday morning it wasn't at the show Saturday.

 

[Big_John]

Yes, that's correct - I'm usually easy to remember since there aren't a lot of younger attendees. You must have had the brown convertible then since I remember that being behind his B Friday morning it wasn't at the show Saturday.

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