You can view more than 50 extraordinary antique and classic cars during the annual Founder’s Day charity event in Paris, Maine. The Bahre Antique Car Collection opens its doors to the public only one day each year. The collection is fabulous, and its hilltop location at the birthplace of Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln’s first vice president, complements it.
Bahre Antique Car Collection highlights
- Rare Packards such as Dietrich V-windshield body styles and LeBaron V-windshield body styles on the Packard 12 chassis for 1932-34, the one-off front-wheel-drive prototype sedan, and a 1906 Model S touring car;
- Duesenbergs, Cadillac, Stutz, and Graham-Paige;
- foreign classics such as Delahaye, Isotta Fraschini, Hispano-Suiza, Mercedes-Benz and Alfa-Romeo;
- an eclectic grouping of brass-era cars (including two electric vehicles), a Tucker, a Harley-Davidson, the original Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang II from 1921;
- later-model sports cars.
In addition, visitors can view an antique doll and toy collection, horse-drawn carriages, player pianos, old phonographs, table-top instruments, and a jukebox.
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The Founders Day event always takes place from 9 am to 5 pm on the third Saturday of July. Admission is $10 per adult and $2 per child age 12 and younger. Proceeds benefit the Hamlin Memorial Library & Museum on Paris Hill. Founder’s Day also includes vendors on the village green.
