The biggest one ever at the new facility! Three buildings totally full and most of the outside. But nothing there. The increasing lack of traditional speed and early Ford parts is disappointing, to say the least. That and not selling after 30 years equals an disappointig trip. Did not buy one thing! But I did have some face time with the HAMBer who is swapping bodies with me so that was a plus. Here are some items that might be of interest on here. Sorry, no LS pics. Dodge Red Ram Hemi OFFY 3x2’s Early Olds Edelbrock 3x2’s 59 Buick grille for your 57 Early Olds Weiand 6 carb log manifold Nicely chromed 34 grille and hood 40-41 pickup (only) rear fenders and nice 40 coupe doors Belly tank, not priced, at Streetrods by Michael spot ***orted flathead pieces 4-71 with 2 jug Hilborn setup for SBC (I think) with extra blower $2200!! Pretty small sampling of our kind of stuff. Only a few pieces of Model A sheet metal and no 32 stuff. Maybe some goodies were bought on yesterday’s vender setup day or before 7:00 today. But today was packed with potential buyers thanks to no plague and nice weather. Better luck next time!
Thanks for the pics, love pics of swap meets in the US. Interesting that you said that it did not have much HAMB friendly stuff.
The lack of early Fordparts and speed equipment is a disappointment to me. There doesn’t seem to be many like minded people in this area. The belly tank was 12k. A lot of money for basically a body mocked up on a ch***is. The 34 grille had been molested around the crank hole. Flathead 4 carb intakes were $1200 and up.The twin Wico mag was $1500. I think the 471 and Hilborn inj was a good deal. After a gut full of Chinese tools and late model GM ****, I went home and took my 32 for a drive. Maybe the Springfield swap meet will be better next weekend.Time will tell. View attachment 5639846
That is a 1970's Argentina repro grille, with the weird crankhole bezel. Another giveaway is the support bar in the middle. They are at a 90 to the grille bars, which looks weird when the grille is in place on the car. Ford's were level to the ground when installed on the car.
In total agreement with the other guys who went. 3 hour drive up there, 4 hours looking at 99.99% Chevy stuff, Hot Wheels and other toys, somebody selling camping gear, somebody else selling Carhartts, one Model A body in pieces and a stock '34 Ford rolling ch***is. I did meet @MoparJoeTN and his son who is appropriately named Dodge. Super nice guys, both of them. Called it a day, 3 hours home.
I had a spot with some good 32 Ford stuff and came back with most of them. I am not sure early parts are wanted. I sold almost all the other stuff. The crowd was good thought but with a lot of tire kickers.
Me neither. @lcfman, what did you bring? I was looking. Ironically, the first year that I don’t set up, with the chance to finally look, and to find NOTHING was definitely a let down. A 4 hour drive on Sat., motel, get there at 7:00 and blew through it in 1 1/2 hours, zipping past spot after spot of useless late model stuff. I do better shopping on the HAMB. Thanks, Ryan!
bought a few things wished I had bought the truck fenders they were probably better than the ones I have & had been blaste. I am guessing I bought the 32 seat pan from lcfman found some NOS 40 vent handles in old ford boxes some really dirty brake scoops 39 drake headlight buckets & a box of old Ford parts. found most of it late in the day after the crowd had thinned. I parked over at the race track it felt like I had bought more than I unloaded.I thought it was a pretty great day
You did good! I Probably should have stayed around longer. It was so packed with “Walmartian shoppers” at noon, you could barely get down the aisles. You know the type; Dad, Mom, the kids and pet, four wide, pulling a wagon and really not looking at anything, just out for a stroll. Narrow aisles didn’t help either.
Alchemy beat me to the ID on the repro 1934 Ford grill. I have been going to swap meets / flea markets for more than 50 years, and I agree as to what is there, or not there. I only go to 5, or 6 nowadays, but the ones that I go to are much more like the old days.
Maybe its just me, but I don't understand why people drag their wife and kids to a swap meet. They always look bored and just stand around in the way.
Exactly! In some areas the aisles were so jammed with stationary crowds it was single file, one way creeping traffic, like the interstate after a wreck. Not only hard to navigate, but impossible to get up to a table for the crowds of folks b.s.ing and scratching their *** in front of the guy’s parts display. That is one of the drawbacks to the new facility. The promoters figured that with narrower aisles than the old buildings had, they could cram one more row of vendors in. All about the $$.
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