Ninth annual NAAC Spring Tour on April 9, 2022
Date/Time :
Apr092022
9:30 am - 3:45 pm
| NAAC welcomes you to join us on our annual Spring Tour on April 9. It’s time to wake up your cars from their winter’s nap (all cleaned up from the slush and snow), meet up with your fellow auto enthusiasts (ditto -Ed), tour the Maine and New Hampshire seacoast (ditto again -Ed), and sample some really unique beers at the end. |
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| This year our tour leaves at 10 AM sharp (gather starting at 9:30 AM please) from the northbound Maine State Visitor Information Center (aka “rest stop”) on route I-95 in Kittery, Maine, 3.4 miles north of the New Hampshire border, and will end at the Throwback Brewery in North Hampton, NH for socializing, beer tasting and lunch if you’re so inclined. |
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The first stop on our tour will be the Nubble Lighthouse, built in 1879 for $15K and still in operation with its original Fresnel lens. The image of The Nubble is on the “golden record” launched with Voyager 1 in 1977, along with images of the Great Wall and the Taj Mahal, now all 23 billion Kilometers from Earth. After the Nubble Lighthouse we will follow the coastline south through York Harbor and Kittery, passing the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and on over the Piscataqua River into New Hampshire. |
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The tour then hangs a left through New Castle and past the Wentworth-by-the-Sea, which hosted delegations to the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese war in 1905.
Leaving New Castle, we’ll continue to follow the coastline south past Brit Bits (purveyor of fine British automobiles), Pulpit Rock Tower, and some beautiful homes along the NH coast. (If each one of us on the tour puts in $50K we might be able to buy one.) Reaching the town of North Hampton we will head west a few miles to the Throwback Brewery for a beer tasting and a light lunch if you so desire. |
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We will be arriving at the brewery around noon so you can expect to be on your way between 1 and 2 pm to enjoy the rest of your day. There are outlet stores in Kittery ME just 12 miles up the road, with my favorite store being the Kittery Trading Post.
The fee for this event is $12 per person for ACNA,
BMW and PCA club members and $15 per person for non-members, which covers the beer tasting or a single pint of beer if you prefer. Additional beverages and food are not covered. |
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Attendance is limited, so sign up soon!
All vehicle types are welcome, as are club members and non-members alike.
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