Event Coverage Cedar Rapids Swap Meet 10/15/16

Sounds like the weather is going to be good this Saturday. Hope its a great turn out for vendor's and buyer's!

 

I'm planning on going.

 

be sure to take pics & post here

 

There goes my chances for finding the cool stuff.......

 

I will be there. May get a space and set out a 4 speed to sell. While I am shopping

 

I did find a good deal...two (rough) 32 grille shells for $200. Also found a bent spoke 18" Kelsey Hayes for $15.

 

Got too busy finishing up my shop and didn't get there. I bet there was everything I needed and more as per usual when I cant make it. Only 30-45 minutes away too. Oh well, too many irons in the fire once again.

 

no cameras?

 

No, I mostly only saw car parts. Some lawn mowers for sale too, but no cameras there.

 

Please excuse my oldest son. We only dropped him once .

 

...here's a few pics...

 

I found a nice Edelbrock 2925 intake manifold, a manual steering gear, valve covers and a small hei distributer,

 

Thanks for the pics rustyl.

 

Some crummy phone pics from the parking lot.

 

I was there. Did not find all that much. Vendors were way down. Especially on the 1/2 mile racetrack back stretch. The crowd also was way down as I could tell when I pulled into the spectator parking lot the same time I have been doing twice a year for 20 some years. I hate this swap meet decline trend, but like everyone else I know why it is happening.Weather was one of the better Fall CR swaps though.

 

Iowa Dept of Revenue no longer allows a temporary tax permit, they now require a permanent tax number. This info was sent to all previous C.R. vendors, and some of them might not have wanted to register for a tax number with the state just so they could sell at a swap meet once in a while.

I talked with a lifelong swap meeter who sells all over Iowa, as well as Chickasaw and Hershey. He said he has tax ID numbers in those states as well, but if he was a casual swapper he would just give up. The tax man is the cause of low vendor numbers around here!