Which Car Events?

I'll be going to the Carlisle, Pennsylvania All Mopar show in July for all four days. I may try to make it for one day to the Carlisle Ford show. And this year my buddies and I have decided to skip the Mopar Spring Fling show in Van Nuys, California, and instead attend the Mopar Nationals in Columbus, Ohio in August (while I'm there I'll try to find the town in Ohio where my father grew up which I've never seen).
I may try to make it to either the Don Gartlits Mopar show in early November in Ocala, Florida, or the Turkey Rod Run at Daytona at Thanksgiving, but I'm not sure about those shows yet.
Locally, here in Northern Virginia, it will just be the local Friday and Saturday evening cruise-ins, the local Mopar shows put on by the Chrysler Products Owners Club, and a large antique car show on Fathers Day at Sully Plantation in Chantilly, Virginia.

 

Sounds like a full schedule, cuda! Wish you were going to some of the same one's I'm going to. Hey....you have fun, my friend!

 

On the Impala forum they are reporting the ISWC is having their show in NJ but aren't sure where. It is supposed to be in june. I will hit this for sure unless maybe it is during the GM nationals and even then matbe hit the wagon show anyway.

 

Ok I emailed the president of the ISWC and he stated that modified wagons are more than welcome, but in the past few have shown up so they tend to take most of those trophies home. Now it is the same weekend as the GM National's at Carlisle which still has me divided on which show to attend. But if enough people from here are going to attend then that would seal the deal for me. I would think we should be able to an easy 10 wagons from here.

 

stick, im in for carlisle! im taking first for buick this year though!

 

Well....I hope everyone makes up their mind before the shows come around so we long distance travelers can make decisions. The ISWC show is wagon specific and IIRC had about 50 wagons show up last year. It is a one day show, I believe. The GM Nationals in Carlisle is a much larger show and is not wagon specific and lasts the weekend. I would like to go to shows this summer that has ALL cars and not just brand specific too. It's hard to make a decision because I would like to go to events and hook up with members from here. Where ever the most members from here go, I will try to make that one so I can meet up. Is there not a big event somewhere that could attract an interest for ALL our members here that own all different brands of wagons? Please keep this thread in mind and post what events you will attend on what dates.

 

I think we need to hear from someone that has BEEN to that ISWC show, Stick. I'm surprised that there are two wagon clubs that have rarely, if ever, been mentioned here on the forum (ISWC and ASWOA). They both are having events but no one has heard much about them. That leads me to believe that they may be small but...I could be WAY wrong about that. I will be going to other shows besides the ones mentioned here but we seem to be stuck in the PA, NJ area right now. Bottom line....has ANYONE ever been to a ISCW or ASWOA show???

 

Well, if I have the motor done in the 92, which I really see no issues in completing by then, I will probably make the Carlisle GM show. It might not be the most wagon beautiful there, but it will be one of the more nasty runners. I might even have it painted up and wood deleted by then as well, thats the hopes I have anyway.

I am still up for the Dearborn wagon show as well, so Mike, if you could make that one, that would atleast give us each someone we know to park with and shoot the breeze.

 

I agree it does seem odd. I have been talking back and forth with the president for the east coast show and it seems like a nice but quiet show. I know what the GM National's is like. Lots of different cars from restored bone stock to all out custom cars. There is a huge flee market and lots of food vendors plus like I have said before many different people to meet. There are probably 4-5 different forums I could meet people from there. But that being said something about rolling into a wagon show with a caravan of 10-20 wagons would be cool. But we need to get people on board here. There are a ton at Wgaon Fest In NY, but most of those will be at the Gm National's with the Impala club. I would hate to commit to this and then have 4 wagons show up with 2 of them being mine.

 

So...it's Carlisle for you, Blackie, and not Michigan or New Jersey?

 

I did say I plan on Dearborn show, in Michigan. I have no plans for Jersey though, Carlisle is about as far east as I have any interest to travel. If I hit Jersey, the wife would think she has to be dropped off in Millville to visit her friend for a few days, not gonna happen.

 

I hear what you are saying, Stick. I would love to cruise into one or both of those wagon shows with 15 or 20 wagons from here too. With the static stickers on our wind shields! But....trying to get two people to agree on anything is a problem....and the problem grows exponentially as the number of people gets higher and higher. So...another thread to see how many we can get to go to MI? Just post the question here again?
Blackie...I still like the MI show that Stick had video on here. But the problem may be as I have stated above and that Stick has stated as well. How would we get people to attend the smaller wagon show when it is a day in the same weekend that Carlisle holds the GM Nationals?

 

Well that I think is the main problem. All three shows are the same weekend. WTH!! Here is how my vote goes. I would like to do the Jersey show if there would be a big Forum presence. If there is a good amount of wagons going to attend then I will make the sacrifice of missing the bigger show. But so far there seems to be the same few people talking about this. Hell the way it looks even if all the people talking on this thread decided on the same event we wouldn't come close to 10 wagons showing up. There in lies the problem.

 

That's a bingo, Stick. I'm thinking this whole thread is a bust. Can't get 2 people to decide on anything let alone 20. Although... Wix is in where ever the most people decide to go. Same with me. Right now, I'm thinking Carlisle. Even though it is considerably farther and farther than I like to go.
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Hell....there may be BETTER shows than either of these that we haven't even thought about...LOL

 

A couple of friends and I have compiled a "bucket list" of sorts, car events to attend before,.. well you know.
The Pebble Beach concour, Monterey Historic races, Concourso Italiano, etc. we did two years back. It was expensive but well worth it. You will see things there that seldom see the light of day.
The Meadowbrook in Michigan is another concour not to be missed.
January in Scottsdale with the BJ and similar auctions offer a lot to see. It's a mix of everything from flavor of the week muscle cars to full classics and exotics.
The Auburn, Cord Duesenburg Festival in Auburn, Indiana is a great relaxed atmosphere with a parade of some of the most magnifcent cars you'll ever see that get parked on the town square afterwards. Don't be surprised to have a Duesy SJ park next to you at a restaurant in town. The ACD museum is worth a day by itself.

These are some of the biggies I've managed to attend and highly recommend them all.
There is a common misconception that the owners of these sometimes priceless cars are snobby. I found the reverse, they were far friendlier than most of the retards who show up at local shows with jacked up Chevelles bearing warnings of bodily harm to anyone that would dare TOUCH their precious machine. A fellow at the Meadowbrook concour allowed me a brief ride in his SJ Duesenburg while moving his car about. Another at Auburn was pleased to let me crawl all over his L-29 Cord and photograph my then girlfriend in it.

The Lincoln (Continental?) owners once had their national meet essentially across the street from my home few years ago so I stumbled over. The quality of the cars was absolutely outstanding, the owners friendly and the event well organized. They are worth looking up.