Visiting Philly-Wilmington 12-29_12-31

Going to be visiting the Philly area.Is there any hot rod shops or neat places to check out while here?Willing to drive if necessary.Even any auto or aviation related stuff?Thanks Rich

 

It's about 45 min. south of Wilmington, but there's the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB.

http://amcmuseum.org/

 

Worth seeing! Near the Philly airport.
http://www.simeonefoundation.org/

Also worth seeing is the AACA Museum in Hershey, about 1.5 hrs. from Philly.

 

Philly is the birthplace of America, lots of great history and Architecture, Do yourself a favor and check it oput!!!

 

Simeone is definitely worth seeing if you can get over there. Lots of good stuff to see.

 

The Simeone absolutely! And, like BeatnikPirate said, the city itself is great to see- Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, etc.

90 minutes out of the city and you're in Lancaster- Amish country (great food), the PRR Museum, the Strasburg Railway (oldest running steam railway), the Toy Train Museum, and more.

 

a little further west is the famous Bad Donkee hot rod and inflatable *** toy shop.........a must see in Hanover PA

 

And the ONLY way to Paradise is through...?

 

Not car-related, but in Philly, wanna see something really creepy?

http://www.astropop.com/mutter/mutter.html
The Mutter Museum.

Also Phila Art Museum, The Franklin Ins***ute, and The Barnes Foundation are good.

 

Skidmarks,I agree with you about Wilmington!Have done the Dover Air Mueseum(great)(5 times).I'm gonna go to see Joe Timney at his Delaware Ch***is Shop this afternoon.Really good guy and fantastic shop.He's about 20-25 miles south of Wilmington off of Rt13.
Then tomorrow,the Simeon? Foundation sounds like a neat place to get lost in for awhile.Plus I'll be that much closer to a Jimmys or Geno's cheesesteak in Philly!!Thanks for all the idea's guys,I appreciate your time. Rich

 

Mutter is great!
New Hope P.A. has some nice scenery, and food and drinks, but pricey. I love the area around the river though...it's nice driving.
Old city is o.k., again, good food and drink.
Art museum, Franklin Ins***ute...also an o.k. distraction. It was cool when Body worlds was there. That's gone now...
Bad time of year for any hot rod related stuff...
The Zoo is cool, too...not sure in winter, though.
Strasburg Railroad is nice, and the museum is great.
New Hope has a Steam train, too, and does short trips hourly. I haven't taken the Strasburg train in a while, because it's farther from us than New Hope, but, I remember it as being a longer trip.
Penn's landing has a couple old military ships ( one is a sub, it's bad-***...pre-nuke! )

 

Very cool place, I recently discovered it when they had the hotrod hoedown there this year.
http://www.simeonefoundation.org/

I was also going to suggest the mutter museum. Place is very cool, lots of oddities.
http://www.collphyphil.org/Site/mutter_museum.html

 

Not to sure about that Mutter Place..........

 

There's a bunch of other hot rod shops in Delaware , Theres one off rod and custom in Middletown , there ram's in Dover, there six deuces in ****ord , east cost restoration in greenwood , and I'm down here in Milton, and it seems that everyshop is building some killer cars .

 

if your into 'ol motorsickles this is only 'bout 20 minutes from philly . he's into 'ol hotrods to .... just ask for nick http://www.nickscustomcycles.com/custompage2.asp?pg=antique_showroom

 

Guys,
End up going to theSimeone Foundation today.Nice collection of auto's,few to many old foreign cars,for my taste.Bet it's neat in the summer when they have the hot rodders there.
Nick's custom cycle looks interesting for sure.I have a bobber bouncing around in my brain,the last year or so....Thanks for all the suggestions guys,I appreciate it.Happy New Years! Rich