Green Mountain Racetrack, Pownal, Vermont

 


Like so many shows this season, the Bennington gathering was plagued by dark clouds, wet grounds and showers. The conditions probably kept the number of participants down, but still there was a good variety of vehicles, lots of vendors, and of course, it being Vermont, a tractor pull.

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             A car show under clear skies? I can't remember what that's like!


Fortunately, there was plenty to see inside if a shower popped up


Dozens of vendors selling everything imaginable                 


How would you categorize this?


                       You could find everything from paintings...


...to cutlery...


...to hats                                                        


Stopped raining...let's venture out and look at some cars


                                   There's a rare 1923 Studebaker


One of the biggest attention-getters of the show...a '31 Pierce-Arrow


Headlight melded with the fender...patented by Pierce-Arrow in 1914    


The Pierce-Arrow straight-8


    Thermostatically-controlled louvres in the grille control temperature


Al Capone was probably well-acquainted with this type of dash


That's not a gas tank...it's a booze tank. The car was used       
to transport contraband liquor during Prohibition              


One of the three P's among '30s luxury cars...
Pierce, Packard and Peerless


                        Know your Chryslers? What year is this one?


How about this one?


Surely you know the year of this Studebaker  


How about this Pontiac...care to take a guess?
Keep scrolling, you'll find the answers


         Cleaning the mud off the spokes on his MG


Trophies wait to be awarded to lucky recipients


Hundreds of vendors like this one hawked their wares outdoors     


Not sure what kind of books he's selling


       A 100-year-old Locomobile shares space with three Model T's


1932 Chevrolet


This 1934 Pontiac has had only two owners                      


1935 Studebaker Dictator — Could you sell a car today named "Dictator"?


                     The '35 Studebaker dash


Studebaker medallions


1936 Dodge                                                     


1936 Pontiac


                                         1941 (left), 1939 Chryslers

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