From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Sun Sep 19 2004 - 20:27:59 PDT
Man, I wish I could have run with Pat with my M114.......soneday...now that
I have a transport truck of my own..........
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Gilmore" <jgilmore@ptd.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] great gilbert washout-Red Ball-death of mv shows
> Rick wrote:
> >After arraging with a vendor to pickup some parts at Gilbert and feeling
> >obligated to pick them up I drove and hour and a half to find out the
vendor
> >did not stay till 12 like he said he would but rather left about 9am
about
> >10 mintues prior to my arrival.
> >
> >I paid $6 entrance fee for a 10 minute walk through and then left.
> >
> >In light of vendor performance at previous rain events like Aberdeen and
> >vendor performance can I suggest that instead of event occurs rain or
shine
> >that it is advertised to occur shine only?
>
>
> Well,
>
> I do feel your pain........but I was there set up for three days.
Brought a CCKW load of parts and manuals, set up in the rain, had my canopy
destroyed Friday night, many items waterlogged..........but I was still
there selling at 5 pm.
>
> Just because your vendor did not stay is no reason to bad mouth this
show and all outside MV shows in general.
>
> I drove over an hour in a 6x6 to bring things there for guys like you
to buy, used several days of vacation time up.......and I'm not
complaining......or whining........
>
> If you were only there 10 minutes you could never have looked at all
the vendors or at the vehicles that were on display. Those guys brought
jeeps, 6x6's, half track, M-114 APC, command cars, 1 1/2 tons, and some very
rare motorcycles to the show just so you (and others) could see them. They
braved the rain and a Hurricane and had their vehicles soaked.
>
> It's too bad you ran off so quick......you missed Pat Lombardi driving
his M-114 Armored Personnel carrier around.....a real sight to see!
>
> There were many vendors that stayed Friday and some
Saturday......Brent Mullens, Myself, Peter Debella, Darryl Bensinger, Curt
Wolf, Tom Weibolt, John Blackwood and many, many others.......
>
> Hey, Brent Mullins drove all the way from TEXAS to bring parts for guys
like you to buy......and you're complaining about a 1 1/2 hour drive?
>
>
>
> If your vendor wasn't there don't whine here........complain to him
about it.
>
>
> Jim Gilmore
>
> Editor, Red Ball Military Transport
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