2021 Carlisle Chrysler Nationals
Been vending at Carlisle Chrysler show for 18 years now. Best show and will be super packed this year. No holds bar of anything Ma Mopar made and it will be there with thousands and thousands of used and new parts for sale. Spectators are around 70,000 people. Rows and rows in order of cars in the show field. Just checked the weather as I am a local here. Will be hot and humid as usual. High 80's and low 90's but it is very humid here. Bring lots and lots of cash, your own food and drink if you can unless u want to pay for sky high food prices once your inside the fairgrounds unless you step outside the back gate opposite side of gate 1 as local people live in houses sell burgers and dogs and soda but I was at the ford show this year month ago and that show was Packed with parts and cars but food prices outside gate were even getting pricey. $4.00 for a burger. $2.00 for hot dog and $2.00 for can of soda. These are just the locals that live right beside gate selling food. Guess its better than inside the gate though. U can bring a back pack to put your stuff in or bags or cart. A lot of people strap a garbage can to a cart or dolly or whatever you can and walk and buy parts and put in that way. U can bring your car or truck inside to pick up your parts if large. They give u some time like to do this no charge. You need hotel to stay in. Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Valley, Dillsburg, Carlisle Pike, these are towns away from Carlisle where in Carlisle they jack up the prices on motels for car shows. Best towns to get hotel. A lot of new hotels also so no flea bag hotels. There are some also in smaller towns like Mt. Holley springs. Boiling springs etc... All these towns are less than 10 miles from the fairgrounds. I don't recommend Harrisburg or farther out. Bring lots of time money and more time and no annoying people that dislike heat, looking at cars and parts, and people as they will ruin your weekend buy whining and bothering you that they want to go home. Whiners will destroy your weekend there at Carlisle. Leave them at home. Get there early like Thursday ( show actually starts Friday and is pretty much over and done and lots of venders leave Sat night now. used to be a lot stayed to Sunday afternoon but last 10 years I see this trend going this way. Show over Sat night but there still will be vendors selling Sunday just not as much. Show is really strong and on Friday and Sat and even on Thurs) Bring good walking shoes or sneakers and a towel for the humid and lots of water to drink like freeze it so it that its cold during day in bottles. Best show you will see in organization of cars and parts. Everything is organized very well. Parts in one area and cars in other area. They have free Hellcat rides and auto cross track they run the hell cats at. Also drag racing at South Mountain Dragstrip Friday early day and goes into early evening till 9 pm or so. Its about 10 miles from the Fairgrounds. Its a 1/8 mile track and is awesome and looks like they have a cruise in this year (not sure what that is gonna be or whatever at the track) They have a bus (school bus yellow I believe yet that shuttles you there for free, at least they used to every year but I suggest driving yourself if u can so u can do as u please) I am posting schedule of South Mountain Dragstrip. You will have a awesome time there.
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Been vending at Carlisle Chrysler show for 18 years now. Best show and will be super packed this year. No holds bar of anything Ma Mopar made and it will be there with thousands and thousands of used and new parts for sale. Spectators are around 70,000 people. Rows and rows in order of cars in the show field. Just checked the weather as I am a local here. Will be hot and humid as usual. High 80's and low 90's but it is very humid here. Bring lots and lots of cash, your own food and drink if you can unless u want to pay for sky high food prices once your inside the fairgrounds unless you step outside the back gate opposite side of gate 1 as local people live in houses sell burgers and dogs and soda but I was at the ford show this year month ago and that show was Packed with parts and cars but food prices outside gate were even getting pricey. $4.00 for a burger. $2.00 for hot dog and $2.00 for can of soda. These are just the locals that live right beside gate selling food. Guess its better than inside the gate though. U can bring a back pack to put your stuff in or bags or cart. A lot of people strap a garbage can to a cart or dolly or whatever you can and walk and buy parts and put in that way. U can bring your car or truck inside to pick up your parts if large. They give u some time like to do this no charge. You need hotel to stay in. Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Valley, Dillsburg, Carlisle Pike, these are towns away from Carlisle where in Carlisle they jack up the prices on motels for car shows. Best towns to get hotel. A lot of new hotels also so no flea bag hotels. There are some also in smaller towns like Mt. Holley springs. Boiling springs etc... All these towns are less than 10 miles from the fairgrounds. I don't recommend Harrisburg or farther out. Bring lots of time money and more time and no annoying people that dislike heat, looking at cars and parts, and people as they will ruin your weekend buy whining and bothering you that they want to go home. Whiners will destroy your weekend there at Carlisle. Leave them at home. Get there early like Thursday ( show actually starts Friday and is pretty much over and done and lots of venders leave Sat night now. used to be a lot stayed to Sunday afternoon but last 10 years I see this trend going this way. Show over Sat night but there still will be vendors selling Sunday just not as much. Show is really strong and on Friday and Sat and even on Thurs) Bring good walking shoes or sneakers and a towel for the humid and lots of water to drink like freeze it so it that its cold during day in bottles. Best show you will see in organization of cars and parts. Everything is organized very well. Parts in one area and cars in other area. They have free Hellcat rides and auto cross track they run the hell cats at. Also drag racing at South Mountain Dragstrip Friday early day and goes into early evening till 9 pm or so. Its about 10 miles from the Fairgrounds. Its a 1/8 mile track and is awesome and looks like they have a cruise in this year (not sure what that is gonna be or whatever at the track) They have a bus (school bus yellow I believe yet that shuttles you there for free, at least they used to every year but I suggest driving yourself if u can so u can do as u please) I am posting schedule of South Mountain Dragstrip. You will have a awesome time there.
Wizard.
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