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BOOKMOBILE?
Coming soon to a car show near you—the Antique Automobile Club of America’s new library on wheels
Based in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the AACA Library and Research Center contains more than 500,000 pieces of historic automotive sales literature, owners’ manuals, photos and clippings, 3,000-plus shop manuals, and more than 4,500 books, blueprints, parts catalogs and programs from racing events and car shows. It’s a treasure trove of auto- motive history and, as evidenced by a creative and ambitious new plan, the AACA is not
content to sit back and hope visitors discover this amazing archive on their own.
AACA members and historians who can’t make it to the AACA library now have an- other alternative. Te library can come to them with the newly commissioned AACA Bookmobile.
“Te AACA Bookmobile will remain bone stock on the outside, but high-tech within,” says Steve Moskowitz, AACA Director.
“We’re on track to have it ready to go on tour this year to auto shows, car events, retirement homes, schools — any place we can spread the word about the hobby.”
Now in the final stages of a total restoration that began last February, the AACA’s 1955 Chevrolet 3600 “Bookmobile” traveled to Hershey all the way from South Carolina, where it had serviced the Anderson County library system since 1979. Hoover Antique Restorations in Middletown, Pennsylvania, is handling the Bookmobile’s restoration, thanks to donations by AACA members and partners.
Te AACA Bookmobile will allow library staff to take photographs and printed archive material on the road. Material can be tailored to any event. And high-tech touches such as plasma screen televisions and wireless Inter- net allow access to the AACA library online. “People will actually be able to research their cars at the event,” says Moskowitz. Te Bookmobile, he says, will make it possible to expose the AACA collection to a far greater audience than ever before.
Regular updates of the Bookmobile’s resto- ration are posted on the Library & Research Center’s Facebook page. Go to Facebook and enter AACA Library & Research Center in the search box.
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