Hey! How did that Dodge Viper get in here?

Owls Head Museum pays homage to America’s iconic Corvette

Chris Wolf
Mon, 07/08/2019 - 11:15am
Owls Head Fire Department members Dakota Pritchett and Eliot Scott proudly display one of the department’s vehicles at the All American Cruise-in. Scott said they thought it would be nice to represent the fire department at a community event. “It’s a good recruitment tool, too,” he said. “All fire departments, and not only ours, needs members. There’s a shortage nationwide.” (Photo by Chris Wolf)
A 1954 Corvette. (Photo by Chris Wolf)
Tobey Stinson. (Photo by Chris Wolf)
National Corvette Museum curator Derek Moore. (Photo by Chris Wolf)

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47 Start Road
Camden, ME 04843
United States

    OWLS HEAD – The weather could not have been more perfect and a lot of tops were down at the Owls Head Transportation Museum’s All American Cruise-in held over the long July fourth weekend, both Saturday and Sunday, July 6 and 7.

    What’s more American than muscle cars, classic cars, and hot rods, said Toby Stinson, director of the New England Auto Auction and special events at the OHTM. 

    “Our celebrated marquee today is the Chevrolet Corvette,” he said. “The museum had several Corvette clubs represented at the Cruise-in.”

    They included the Acadia Region Corvette Club and Corvettes of Coastal Maine.

    “We also had corvette clubs from New Hampshire and Massachusetts,” he said. “We also have representatives here from the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and its curator Derek Moore, who narrated a special line up we did of cCrvettes from 1954 up through 2014.”

    Though the iconic Corvettes were the featured automobile, any car was welcome to drive in and be put on exhibit. Classics lined the lanes, the crowds never diminished and exhibitors rolled in and out of the museum lot.

    Museum-goers were treated to rides in hot rods and classic automobiles by museum staff.

    Classic airplanes were on display. And biplane rides were popular all day long.

    It was a good weekend for car enthusiasts to cruise, peruse and talk shop.

     

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