Just had a very unique and fun event for my Aston. After a selection process, my DB9 has been accepted as one of a limited group of Aston Martin cars in the 2013 Best of Britain exhibit for the 100 year centenial celebration of Aston Martin at Simione Foundation Museum.

The 3 week long exhibit from March 22nd - April 14th 2013 focuses on the History of Aston Martin, the first 100 years. Aston started making cars in 1913 and has for the most part never turned a profit or showed a postive balance sheet for nearly 100 years until within the last decade, yet they stilll continue to have a legacy and presence that is not only steeped in graceful style and tradition, but also second to none as builders of some of the worlds finest automobiles.

This is a huge honor to be part of this event in conjunction with the world renowned Simeone Museum on Philadelphia and will be nice to have in the car's logbook for provenance purposes. I can't explain how it feels to have your car staged in a museum 5 ft from a priceless DBR1 and accross the Isle from a 250 GTO and 375MM. There were many applicants and 14 or so privately owned Aston Martin cars were selected, along with FC Kirbeck's showroom examples for the Best of Britain AM marque Centennial Celebration - all the applications were reviewed my Fred Simeone and his staff for a several weeks, I'm quite lucky and really grateful to have been chosen and been given this very rare and unique opportunity.

The museum and it's cars is something very special, priceless examples including previous LeMans Winners, Bugatti Type 57 "Boat", 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO (est. $35M), 1957 Ferrari 375MM, Original TestaRossa, Aston DBR1 driven by Sir Stirling Moss only one in existance, Aston DB4 GT, 1929 Blower Bentley (1 of 4), LeMans winning Ford GT, the fastest car ever in LeMans 257 Mph on the Mulsanne Straight Porsche 917 longtail, the First Shelby Daytona coupe and Sebring winner ever made, Pre and post war Astons, Mille Miglia and Targa Florio winning Mazeratis and Alfa Romeos etc..etc.. just mind blowing examples of priceless cars through history, each grouped by racing vintage, era, and historical significance.

I would like to organize a meet over at the Simeone Museum located in Philly, I figure a group of us can drive up from MD/VA/DC and meet with whomever else wishes to join us from other states, we can converge on philly at the Museum. Our dates are April 6th or 7th, OR April 13th or 14th...Saturdays and Sundays the Museum is open from 10am - 4pm. I figure we can get to the Museum by maybe 11am or noon and see the special cars and the Best of Britain exhibit and hang out and maybe get some famous Philly cheesestaks afterwards! Would be a fun outing for our enthusiast community, and I can promise you the cars you will see will be second to none, and truly define the world's great sports car history, priceless examples of magnificent cars many of which remain unrestored and preserved just as they were in victory lane at the worlds greatest races!

Please let me know your thoughts, what date works best, I personally would like the 6th or 7th, but am open to thoughts/suggestions. If we get enough people interested we can have the museum cater lunch for us. Please let me know if you are interested and able to commit to it

Tonk and Ken were taking some pictures thru our day there unloading and staging the car, please enjoy a few pics:

 

First of all, a HUGE congratulations Sunir. Looks like your car is in exquisite company. Quite an honor. As you may expect, I am ultra-busy getting ready for the Castaway Critters show, but would love to see the exhibit. If you're going to do it Saturday April 6th, I could meet you guys in Philly. Those pictures just make it way too tempting to miss out on this.

 

i'm in.

 

Sunir thanks for sharing and well done mate.

 

Congrats! Now I can say I know someone famous!

 

Thanks guys for the kind words of encouragement and support. So far over 70 views and less than a handful of posts. Please take a moment to chyme in

I am trying to organize a museum and cheesesteak cruise to philly it's about 1.5 hours away (from Baltimore)...the plan is to go to the Simeone Museum first which is open from 10am - 4pm on weekends and then have cheesesteaks afterwards, and those that want to stay in Philly thereafter can do that and those who wish to return home can do that also.

Please let me know if you are in, also please post a date that is most suitable.

So far we have some people interested in the 6th and 7th...from what I've gathered.

thanks...again, I appreciate your participation and I think it will be a very enjoyable day, the museum is truly awesome and the cheesesteaks in Philly top off a great activity just right!

 

I'm always up for a bit of a road trip. Could meet folks somewhere.
The "Ferrari-killers" display and drive-around was amazing to see last year, so I would love a chance to go back.

 

I might be able to do the weekend of 6th-7th. Another possibility is the 4th Saturday of each month the museum has demo days where they take the cars out.

http://simeonemuseum.org/events/2012...nstration-days

 

^^^ Paul the 'Best of Britain' exhibit is a 3 week run and ends on April 14th. The demo days are fun though. The dates I am planning this cruise is either April 6th or 7th or 13th or 14th... so far now looks like we have some interest for the 6th and 7th.

 

I would also like to make this trek. As far as general events go, 6th is Summit's C&C, 27th is Critter's and 4/4 is Bacon. A few folks have signed up for these in case you want to work around these. Just a reminder, not trying to push your date.

 

^^^ Scott April 4th is bacon...do you mean bratton audi event? I thought that was on a weekend...did you mean May 4th?

For my Simeone cruise event we are looking at the 6th or 7th most likely, those are the dates I've gotten interest for...if the 6th is the summit CnC maybe you guys can get a group to meet us in philly after the cnc (Remember museum hrs are 10 - 4) or I can gauge interest say on Sunday April 7th?

Right now we are still in the 'interest gatherint stage' ... will start a roster and set a final date and plan soon.

 

I don't think I might the car back before 6/7th but as Scott mentioned that weekend is the Summit Point CnC, and the following is GYLO and Critters towards the end of the month which I've registered for.

Bad timing

 

Guys this is not going to effect Critters, I'm signed up for that too.

I know about the Summit Point CnC, if GYLO is on the 14th I won't be able to bring the Aston to that as the exhibit's last day in the 14th.

So far it's looking like the weekend of the 6th/7th for my Simeone Cruise. If the Summit CnC doesn't allow for you guys to make it out to Simione on Saturday before say 2pm or something...then looks like Sunday the 7th might be our best option. I just wanted to aviod Sunday if possible since people have things like Church, or family dinners/plans etc...

We'll make something work...keep the suggestions coming

 

6th or 7th could work for me--was going to try and hit the summit point CnC--

 

oops, yes, you are correct.