The Gang’s All Here for 2022 Spring Fling
by Dave Millhouser
Hundreds of bus industry veterans and bus enthusiasts converged on Hershey, Pennsylvania on June 3 and 4 for the 2022 Spring Fling at the bus museum. In addition to the 52 museum buses, another 30 “visiting” buses showed up for the event. The buses on display were built between 1912 and 2022 – a range of 110 years. STEFAN ALEO.
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he Gang’s All Here” was the theme of this years Spring Fling at the Museum of Bus Transportation/Antique Automobile Club of America Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
On June 3 and 4 hundreds of enthusiasts and industry veterans gathered in perfect weather to celebrate the history and evolution of the bus industry in North America. Roughly 30 “visiting” coaches braved $6 a gallon diesel fuel prices to join with the 20 • National Bus Trader / July, 2022
museum’s 53 buses, offering the opportunity for guests to see and touch more than 80 historic vehicles ranging from 1912 to 2022 – a span of 110 years.
The museum moved many of its fleet from the annex to the main campus for the event, but to see everything Fling offered a shuttle from the main building to the annex. Wolf Bus lines has, for many Flings, provided a shuttle bus and driver – and the museum is grateful to them for coming through again.
All day Saturday the museum’s Bus Exhibition Hall hosted a flea market with a wide variety of bus models, parts and memorabilia for sale at 23 tables. Attendance was down slightly from pre-pandemic levels, and high fuel prices gave the event a more “Middle Atlantic” flavor than years past.
At Friday evening’s “Town Hall,” Bus Committee Chair John Oakman gave a “State of the Museum” briefing, indicating that since merging with AACA Museum the
