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We have nothing very good in WA, or anywhere in the northwest really. It all seems to be in the east and midwest.
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Replying to: fintail (Apr 13, 2006 8:13 am) The Concours d'Elegance in Forest Grove, OR is also an excellent and well received display of very rare motor cars. Also in July. Vancouver, BC, Spanish Banks = another great Mustang show. Antique English shows abound in "BC" ie. Victoria. Just because fintail is uninformed does not mean many quality shows in the great NW don't exist. 
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I'd be uninformed if I showed up at a Mustang show driving a fintail... There's nothing here like those big shows in PA especially.
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Car shows seem to be very regional everywhere. Guess it has something to do with demographics or priorities or land values or something I'm not quite hitting on. For example, in the city of Chicago, other than things like World of Wheels or Chevy/Vette Fest (indoors, usually in the winter, at McCormick Center, IIRC), there are almost no vintage car shows. The north side has no real estate on which to hold car shows, most people spend most of their money on an expensive house and a yuppiemobile or two. Go to the south side or south/southwest suburbs (near Joliet) and there are lots of NASCAR enthusiasts, many families have cheap daily drivers, an old enthusiast car or two and many homes are under $300k. Plus, there's a lot more land out there. I'd really like to go to more vintage car shows, but getting to one can be a pain for me. We do also have the Volo Auto Museum (read: pay-for-admission, glorified, generally overpriced dealer) out here, about an hour's drive for me, but their selections, IMO, aren't really representative of the vintage cars that actually exist--it's nearly all two-door hardtops and convertibles, heavily domestic, mostly muscle cars and clones. Nice stuff, but not anything terribly interesting to me, really. It's more a revenue farm than museum.
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Replying to: fintail (Apr 14, 2006 10:56 am) Pennsylvania is fortunate because this is where Carlisle Productions is centered and they have about a dozen shows a year. |
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Carlisle's Spring swap meet kicks off today.
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Replying to: fintail (Apr 13, 2006 8:13 am) In, I think August, they have a HUGE 1955-1957 Chevy show! You should stop by some Saturday evening. Come early because they seem to leave around 7:30-8:00. a lot of them head over to the Gaslamp to eat afterwards. |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Apr 20, 2006 6:44 am) |
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Hmmm..I've heard of that Triple X too...good rootbeer floats from what I understand. Maybe I'll stop by sometime....sounds like more of a cruise-in than a show or meet, but I guess if it isn't make-specific...or excludes those durn furrin cars. I know back in the day there would be a yearly MB event at Barrier or Phil Smart, but I don't know if it has taken place recently. Oh, and you don't have to answer this, or you can email...but do you work in Bellevue? I work just a stones throw from the dealer here.
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Replying to: fintail (Apr 23, 2006 10:47 am) |
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