get this, i showed up at 5:45 saturday morning thinking the swap meet started at 6am , followed a line of cars into gate 9, paid my parking fee, parked and followed another group of guys into the place, the whole time i thought "hey where are the ticked booths", it wound up i went in throught the vendor gate and we got in for free at 6am even.. so i got first pick on a few items.. we walked the entire swap meet in just about 4 hours and we were moving pretty fast. i would have to say my best score was a create full of model A "huckster" side wall brackets and tail gate hinges and try were cheap cheap cheap!
Thanks - you too Ron, and as always Rhonda! The Ranchero looks as good as it ever was! Randy did a great job of returning it to pre crash condition! Sorry we didn't stay and chat longer, but Sunday was a short day for us there and we were on a mission to see as much of the show side a s possible after two days in the swap meet
Ya, some how I missed runnin' into you! You were one of the people on my short list to meet over there this time. I saw your '37 in preferred parking on Sunday though.
By far one the best swapmeets ive been to, I scored so much stuff I was blown away! Cali is by far the Hotrod Mecca! Love it there and the people are cool as ever...cant wait til next year!
I can do the entire Hershey show (all fields) walking with my cart in less than a day. If you can't, you're spending more time bull ****ting or jerking around.
LOL..Speedy is my cousin..I didnt have too much time on saturday to chat since i was up there to sell.I was looking for some certain parts for my shoebox project..
Damn! Yeah Friday and Saturday we were right behind Gene Winfield in the swap area in my 75 F150. Sunday when i got there about 6:30 there weren't many cars over there and we came back from wondering and saw that we had parked the 37 in the middle of the cars for sale area.
If you look in the second set of pictures there are 4 that are taken in what I thought was about the middle of the swap meet, looking north , south, east, and west all from the same spot. That gives kind of a view of the size.
I don't know if that still really does justice to the size of this swap. But I guess it's a pretty good reference.
The swap meet was a monster. It took me about 4hrs to get through it, and I was moving at a pretty decent clip. The prices seemed to be good. Of course, you've got guys who "buy junk and sell antiques", but those guys are at every swap meet. I was looking hard for a set of the funky oval center caps for my ET Supers, and I had no luck. I saw a pristine pair of 15x8.5 straight spoke Torq Thrust wheels in 5x5 for $250 and about choked. Six months ago, I would have killed for a pair of those and wound up settling on a pair of ET clones for $100 more that still needed a bunch of work. Oh well.... I was walking past a seller's booth and he was trying to sell a complete set of chrome dual-patteren McLeans in 15x7 &15x8 with nearly new Michelins for $200!!! They were missing the center caps, but other than that, they looked fine. He said that he didn't want to drag them back to Nebraska. There were some great prices in there, for sure.
I walked that swap meet on Friday and Saturday and i am still sore. Lots of stuff to look at and buy.
I snagged a steering wheel for my E-Type Jaguar and I bought a really clean, blue, 80,000 original mile '65 Ford wagon. I drove out to Orange, CA yesterday to retreive the wagon. Mary and I left after work at about 2:30pm, arrived in Orange at 8:00pm, headed back to Phoenix about 9:00pm, and arrived home at 4:00 this morning, just in time for my alarm clock to go off and let me know it was time to get ready for work. Hot Dog!
Not at all you have friends that like to stop at talk for a while. I did look at the 4 photos that were mentioned. First differance from Hershey is the dead flat lot and very few motor homes taking up space. I'm sure my walking pace would be slower out there since all the spots will have good stuff in them, hershey has a lot of walkbys with late model stuff. Bob
This was my first experience as a "seller" in this kind of environment. All in all I enjoyed it. I was actually helping an older friend of mine and brought along a few parts of my own. We had the '52 Merc, '30 Model A Sport Coupe, and '28 Model A Special Coupe, and Model-A engine. Unfortunately didn't sell any of the 3 cars or engine, but sold almost every small part we brought. The only thing that bothered me at all was people p***ing through our space. If they asked or p***ed through to shop I was fine, but most would just p*** through, even under the "easy-up shades and or walk over the trailer tailgate without even saying hello . But that is minor stuff in the grand scheme of things. I hardly had time to leave our spot and missed looking at all the other cool stuff. I had a great time talking with people, trying to honestly answer questions and make a good sales pitch for what we had. I am thinking my friend had his prices just a tinge high. Nobody even made a counter offer on the engine or cars. He was flexible on his prices too, but nobody made an attempt. I don't know if I'll do the "seller" thing again, but that is not due to me having a bad experience.
green73, I agree that if prices shown are to high, I walk on bye. There was a seller there who had a sign that said he couldn't take anything home or his wife would do whatever, I stopped and spent a little more time. Great advertising .
nope it was just a tad bit higher!! hell i sold my rust free 51 for $19k!! they do look like they were related though!
I think it was $19750. But the more I looked.....it looked like 79750...No, can't be. Well it is the Roadster Show, hmmm...maybe.
Anyone here get stuck outside the locked gate like me early fri morning …. I always pull in about 2 am and get 2 or 3 hours sleep in line …. Sure made for a long day
I'm at Hershey 3 days and never stop walking except for foodbathroomsfriendspartsbeerfoodbeer:parts:beer Man I'm tired just thinking about it
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