2025 National Tour

 June 10-14, 2025 

You won't want to miss this year's BRCA Tour based out of Nashville, Indiana and touring two days in the Indianapolis area and one day in Brown County itself.  Brown County Indiana is rapidly becoming one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Midwest.  It contains thousands of acres of breathtaking scenery through the rolling hills and forest.  Nashville is a small community exploding with energy from numerous Artist Shops, Antique Stores, Quaint Coffee Shops, Music Venues, Pubs, Wineries, Souvenir Shops, Restaurants, Museums and much, much more...All within comfortable walking distance of our Lodging.

Our chosen Host Lodging is the Brown County Inn.  This facility is again an older very well-maintained Motel with great character.  Our rooms will look out over the parking lot where we will have reserved parking for our vehicles.  There is a restaurant on-site with a very nice breakfast buffet.  They also have a large parking lot as well as a beautiful courtyard for our after-hours get-togethers.  Our Tuesday Driver's Meeting as well as our Friday Banquet will be held in the Woodland Banquet Room where we will have Club provided pizza on Tuesday and a large buffet style meal for the banquet.  

Wednesday we will leave the Motel for a full day of exploring sites in Indianapolis.  Our first stop will be the Ray Skillman Collection.  The Skillman collection consists of nearly everything imaginable....Antique cars, Hotrods, Race cars, Muscle cars, Memorabilia, and even a beautifully restored Carousel.  Our next stop will be for lunch at a quaint diner in the town of Brownsburg called the Locale.  We will have our own room, and the food was great when we visited. After lunch we will visit the Bruce Litton private collection in Clermont.  This collection has pretty much been unavailable to the public for a while, but Mr. Litton has agreed to let us in.  Bruce is a very successful drag racer from the 80's into the 2000's.  He began his racing career on bikes and after a bad crash he decided to build a four wheeled fun machine.  His record list with IHRA is impressive to say the least.  His private collection is considered one of the finest due in part to his inclusion of restored store fronts and displays we all can relate to.  After we're done touring Litton collection we will be heading back to Nashville.  We have a tour set up with Bear Wallow Distillery for those interestd or you can just tour the area or Brown County National Park if you wish.  Our evening meal will be at a quaint little restaurant/bar named Out of the Ordinary in downtown Nashville.  The place is located within easy walking distance of our Motel.

Thursday we will again head to Indy for a day of discovery.  Our first stop will be the newly renovated Indy 500 Museum.  Unfortunately, due to the museum reopening schedule, which is currently expected to be April of 2025, specifics are not available at this time. We will then visit Fords Garage in Noblesville for lunch.  Fords has a very extensive menu and many vintage auto related items to view.  We vistied a different Ford's garage in Dearborn, MI and the general consensus was positive.  After lunch we are still working out the details and dinner.  

Friday is planned to be our "Local Exploration" day.  Head downtown to experience everything Nashville has to offer.  I highly recommend getting an early start because there is so much to see.  You may want to consider having breakfast at one of the many restaurants and bring a big shopping bag.  There is a shuttle available, but it doesn't really run on a very consistent schedule and it's more like a tour than just a shuttle.  I''m looking for some additional fun things to do as an option for those not wanting to go downtown but I'm not ready to commit to any of them yet.  After we're all shopped out on souvenir overload it will be time for our Banquet at the Motel.

By Dennis Gruse