It looks like self-equalizing bowl vents. Maybe he had trouble balancing the carbs, or maybe he just wanted folks to look at it and scratch their heads. Either way, it must work....
That is the truth and there was very little turn out of shoppers compared to years past, last year I thought was pretty lackluster this year I think was worse. Many of the sellers packed up Friday and didn't come back Saturday also and I am not sure as to why. My friend Brandon and I went to sell (in his vintage slightly off topic stale cheddar colored van to anyone that was curious) and we sat their all day Friday until closing and Saturday we got there about 8AM and there wasn't hardly anyone walking around to buy stuff. It was so quiet we left our treasures in the van and decided to walk the swap meet. The show's promoters told us that they were just about sold out of swap meet spots but yet there was tons of empty spots all around us. I am not sure but I think a typical story of this swap meets are starting to vanish. I hope not but I am thinking that is the case. There was a few good deals and I wish I would have taken some pictures the only picture I dook is posted here. So first There was a real early steel t body I think it was 1917ish, it was a real Henry steel car with a chrome windshield frame (and busted glass) that the owner was asking for $400 for it it ended up in the back of a 1933 Ford pickup a few hours later the guy that bought it said he paid $300 for it I wish I would have bought it as even at $400 it was a good price but at 300 it's how do you not buy it... but it is what it is and I don't own the sweet headache and I got enough projects to sink a navy ship but I digress. So on to my only photo, there was a super cool 1928 or 29 Ford roadster that was yellow for $12,000 bucks it was engine and transmissionless but it looks like it was set up for a small block and it probably would have taken probably less than a weekend to get the car on the road supposing you have the parts and it was completely presentable it even had interior.... What I found odd is the car had no steering, nor was there a hole in the firewall for a steering column that I saw now that being said I did not look at it really closely because at 12K I just didn't have the cash but it was a good enough deal that I definitely noticed it. There was a lot of good deals there if you were looking closely. I unfortunately didn't sell nearly enough stuff and my prices were also really reasonable my goal was to sell everything and to bring home new stuff but unfortunately that didn't happen although I did come across a guy selling hot rod magazines for two bucks an issue or three for five I bought 25 issues all from the 1950s which go figure because I did not have my list I owned almost every issue already... Overall I did not mind the swapmeet I have been doing this since I was 15 years old I am now 45 and unfortunately the swap meet is getting smaller but it just still one of the better pre-war swap meets out there. I hope Model T and A swap meet at The Long Beach veterans stadium next month has a really good turnout.
I had also noticed that there was less people Buying parts, me and my girlfriend walked the whole Swap me very quick. I had a list of stuff I needed to buy for me and work and didn't buy anything.
Great post swap meet report, could you please post a photo of a section of the OT Stale Cheddar Colored van? I've often wondered what the paint color name department people make, Stale Cheddar sounds good enough, to just order and paint a car with. Bob
That's my problem now. I have a small weird list of things I need and a lot less room for more parts I "might" use. I still bought stuff though (even though a few sellers were packing up around 10:30 am).
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