From: Edwin M. Dyer, III (sturmtiger1944@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 20 2002 - 06:50:48 PDT
Greetings:
I'd like to chime in as well on this show. This was my
first time there ( I went as a WW2 reenactor ) and I
had a good time as well.
Indeed, there were deals to be had. I was mainly after
militaria as opposed to vehicle parts, though. There
were plenty enough vendors to be able to price shop
when it came to parts, at least from what I saw.
My favorite vehicles had to be the Davy Crocket armed
jeep and the gun truck "The Untouchable". There were a
number of jeeps, trucks, a LVT 4, and some gent with
some massive R/C German armor, including a Panther, a
StuG III, and a smaller Tiger I. The USAR brought in a
M113 and was giving folks rides in it as well as a
"Loach" helo pilot giving people a really white
knuckle ride.
When did the USAR do the mock battle? I know us
reenactors did a battle Saturday and did two of them
on Sunday.
The only downside I saw to Findlay was that by
Saturday evening, a bunch of people left. About half
the vendors bailed out, a group of reenactors did, and
several of the vehicle owners split Saturday night and
Sunday morning before the show opened. I was told this
was the first time the show remained open on Sunday so
perhaps some of them didn't know or guessed the crowd
would be low.
Hopefully next year it will be better. I was told by a
few folks that with the Medina, OH show being gone,
Findlay may take up the slack and be even bigger next
time around.
Cheers,
Ed
--- DBaumanjr@aol.com wrote:
> Well, I went to the afore mentioned MV meet,
> yesterday. The place was packed
> with big(and little) OD machinery. The swapmeet
> area was larger than years
> previous. I met some new people & got reaquainted
> with a few others. All of
> them nice folks! I spoke with Jim Gilmore, Rod
> Shaver, Dave Pizoferato, among
> many others, that I know by face only. There was
> everything from a Tow missle
> M38a1 to "The Untouchable" gun truck, to staff cars,
> to a Bell 500 OD
> helicopter, which was giving *WILD* rides.
> There was a VFW band performing & a local radio
> station was doing a live
> remote broadcast.
> The local Army National Guard performed a mock
> battle, too.
> I picked up some hard to find items for little cash
> & got some leads on some
> other goodies.
> I've been coming to this meet for the last 4 years &
> this was the best one
> yet!
> Darryl
>
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