CARHUNTER : OLD RHINEBECK NY AERODROME -GET THE CARS OUT OF THERE!

Monday, May 19, 2014

OLD RHINEBECK NY AERODROME -GET THE CARS OUT OF THERE!

You can fantasize about the early days of aviation and barnstormers and I am sure in its heyday this place was lots of fun.

For many years attempted a visit, but when I learned of a vintage vehicle collection and being in the area it was time for the CARHUNTER to check it out.

Pay my $10 and wallop through the mud and I see this and can only assume from the dirt on the cars sitting on a dirt floor this is how they spent the winter with maybe a tarp?

1920 Buick

1919 Ford Speedster

Baker Electric 1911?

Plop around the mud and see a bunch of rickety old hangers

A few more across the runway (grass)

So a few more stuffed in old Trucks, Cars and Motorcycles

A little disappointed I ask the very young cashier is that all the cars, she says "yes, wait I think there are more? You went to museum right?" I say no and she directs me across the road behind the parking lot!

As I get to the top of the steep hill I see this!

Sorry for the blurry shots, but was still recovering from the hill climb and the cars were pretty much jammed under and behind airplanes!

There were a few restored or once restored cars around, but most were just wasting away

A wood bodied boattail Rolls Royce!

Could be a 1931? Silver Ghost Boattail Skiff?

1922 METZ

1908 Brush

This next one is killing me it is a very early 1915? Brewster Town Car - before the heart shaped grille shells and before the Rolls Royce,Packard,Buick bodied Brewsters.