kvisser
06-23-2011, 12:56 PM
There was an inaugural event just 2 weeks ago held on the grounds of the Hotel At Hershey in Pennsylvania. It was the idea of Jack Rich, an avid collector of some of the finest automobiles on the planet. With just 6 months of planning, this group was able to pull off and incredible event.
I took my dad along for the Saturday Hill climb labeled the Grand Ascent. He had a great time and it was really cool to share some of my automotive world with him.
Here is the description: The Grand Ascent is a vintage hill climb exhibition in the European tradition, where drivers will pilot some of the finest vintage race cars up the historic back road to The Hotel Hershey. Modeled on similar events such as England’s Goodwood Festival of Speed and paying homage to long standing events such as Mount Equinox, The Grand Ascent will relive the excitement of race cars storming up hill to test the mettle of the driver and the machine.
It turns out that the Grand Ascent was indeed rather grand. While there could have been more cars, what we had was quite interesting.
For me, the coolest car on the hill was my friend's 1929 Bugatti Type 45. It was a 16 cylinder Grand Prix race car with a 3.8 liter/250 hp. The 16 cylinder engine which was made of 2-8 cylinder banks with 2 crankshafts as used in the Bugatti powered WWI fighter planes.
warm regards
Ken Visser
Discovery Communications, LLC
I took my dad along for the Saturday Hill climb labeled the Grand Ascent. He had a great time and it was really cool to share some of my automotive world with him.
Here is the description: The Grand Ascent is a vintage hill climb exhibition in the European tradition, where drivers will pilot some of the finest vintage race cars up the historic back road to The Hotel Hershey. Modeled on similar events such as England’s Goodwood Festival of Speed and paying homage to long standing events such as Mount Equinox, The Grand Ascent will relive the excitement of race cars storming up hill to test the mettle of the driver and the machine.
It turns out that the Grand Ascent was indeed rather grand. While there could have been more cars, what we had was quite interesting.
For me, the coolest car on the hill was my friend's 1929 Bugatti Type 45. It was a 16 cylinder Grand Prix race car with a 3.8 liter/250 hp. The 16 cylinder engine which was made of 2-8 cylinder banks with 2 crankshafts as used in the Bugatti powered WWI fighter planes.
warm regards
Ken Visser
Discovery Communications, LLC