Could be! 
Seriously, as many of you know, cars newer than 1955 cannot compete in the actual Newport Indiana Antique Auto Hill Climb timed runs up the hill. However, there is an equally-large (if not larger) car show where anything older than 1975 may be displayed.
This year's [2013] event was down a little because it has rained incessantly here for the last several days...but, miraculously, the skies cleared in time for the actual Hill Climb runs this afternoon and it was an unusually pleasant day. It was muddy in the parking lot but not impassable; I didn't see anyone stuck, and everything else is on paved Newport Streets, including "the hill" itself. 284 cars / vehicles were registered to make timed runs up the hill.
The above 1962 Lark was an automatic, and displayed by Dustin Rahn of Vincennes IN, which is due south of Newport about 90 miles. I don't know Dustin and he wasn't around to talk to, so I just snapped the pictures. (Cute car, Dustin; 'looks like you are just getting busy on it. Best wishes and thumbs-up.)
(If I had a laptop and we had a spot to view it out of the sun, I could just have pulled up the latest Turning Wheels and he could have squinted to read it and would have been really impressed with what a swell "magazine" we have....oops, that's in several years, when SDC has "gotten with it" and I'd not be able to show him a print copy!)
Anyway, there were a couple dozen Studebakers at Newport, both displayed and competing. I really owe Ann Turner the December Co-Operator NOW, so I've got to get it done and shipped and will post more photos and information later in the week, unless someone beats me to it. (If so, fellow attendees; have at it with my blessing.
) 
BP
Seriously, as many of you know, cars newer than 1955 cannot compete in the actual Newport Indiana Antique Auto Hill Climb timed runs up the hill. However, there is an equally-large (if not larger) car show where anything older than 1975 may be displayed.
This year's [2013] event was down a little because it has rained incessantly here for the last several days...but, miraculously, the skies cleared in time for the actual Hill Climb runs this afternoon and it was an unusually pleasant day. It was muddy in the parking lot but not impassable; I didn't see anyone stuck, and everything else is on paved Newport Streets, including "the hill" itself. 284 cars / vehicles were registered to make timed runs up the hill.
The above 1962 Lark was an automatic, and displayed by Dustin Rahn of Vincennes IN, which is due south of Newport about 90 miles. I don't know Dustin and he wasn't around to talk to, so I just snapped the pictures. (Cute car, Dustin; 'looks like you are just getting busy on it. Best wishes and thumbs-up.)
(If I had a laptop and we had a spot to view it out of the sun, I could just have pulled up the latest Turning Wheels and he could have squinted to read it and would have been really impressed with what a swell "magazine" we have....oops, that's in several years, when SDC has "gotten with it" and I'd not be able to show him a print copy!
)Anyway, there were a couple dozen Studebakers at Newport, both displayed and competing. I really owe Ann Turner the December Co-Operator NOW, so I've got to get it done and shipped and will post more photos and information later in the week, unless someone beats me to it. (If so, fellow attendees; have at it with my blessing.
) BP
We've got to quit saying, 
BP
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