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40th Annual Hudson River Valley Antique Auto Swap Meet & Car Show
Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, New York
Friday, April 30 through Sunday May 2nd
    We started to get ready for this show by retrieving the Futurliner from the AACA Museum in Hershey, PA, where it had been on display for the winter.
    A great show in a great setting. A very large auto parts swap meet, a 400 car hot rod show on Saturday and a 350 classic car show on Sunday. The Dutchess County Fairgrounds are perfectly laid out for such an event as this.
    Interest in the Furturliner was high and people were crowding around it all the time during the show. We heard several new stories regarding people's experience with the Parade of Progress during the fifties in both the USA and Canada. There were also a couple of stories about seeing Futurliners after the Parade of Progress ended.
    Weather was just about perfect except for two very warm days. No rain until after the event closed on Sunday night.

After spending the winter in the AACA Museum in Hershey, PA the Futurliner attended it's first show of the 2010 season in Rhinebeck, NY.

Our host was the Hudson River Valley Antique Auto Association.

1,300 vendor spaces were sold out and a crowd of 30,000 spectators were expected.

The Swap Meet at Rhinebeck has been a favorite among car collectors from all over the Northeast for years. The objective is to make this the most vendor friendly Swap Meet around.

Volunteers share both historical and technical information about the Futurliner.

Over 1,200 antique and classic cars and trucks were on display with over 500 cars in the car corral. 

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