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[wot179]

I've been avoiding swapmeets for a while now.

 

They empty my pockets and fill my shed.

 

But today, I relented and went to Gosford swap with a mate.

 

Just for the social aspect....catching up.....talking shit....eating a sausage sanga....

 

I really shouldn't have taken any money with me. I will never learn.

 

I came home with a set of 13x7 US racers with tyres, a triple SU manifold,

 

a couple of old Nasco steering column locks and a box full of disassembled 1 3/4 SUs.

 

None of which I need.....Came home with $1.70.

 

 

 

Feel free to relate your swapmeet tales....

 

 

 

 

[r2160]

So where do you guys find out about the swap meets?

 

Always looking for bits.

 

Could we have a thread dedicated to these kinds of events?

 

cheers

Glenn

[orangeLJ]

between the old boy and I we sold about $450 worth of stuff.

Mainly little things (its always the crap that you manage to sell, the things you think will be popular dont!)

Lots of people buy old hand tools, thats the weird one. even things that are no good.


The biggest frustration we had for the day was when we got there.

Little old arab/wog looking bloke came up our trailer, with his little wife in tow (both pretended not to speak english... but spoke it perfectly when needed), started going through everything before we had even gotten out of the cars!

Starts picking things up, throwing things around in the trailer etc etc.

Really rude and didnt listen when told to wait a second.

Bought 2 old garden tools from us @ $5 a pop (was very perturbed at paying that..)

(clearing out my granparents shed as we have sold the house, my grandma passed away last year)

Anyway, long story short, go for a walk to the loos later on.... heres old mate with his own stall... with the 2 garden tools for sale... $15 each! haha.

I went and offered him $2 and haggled like crazy with him just for fun on tonnes of his stuff...

Happy to say he left with the garden tools in his van at the end of the day.

I wasnt so much angry at him selling them for profit, hell, thats capitalism, but his attitude combined with that was just frustrating.

[barny_lx]

I love swap meets and it is one thing I really miss while I am overseas!

 

I got a nice LX SS Instrument cluster recently and my best  buy was a Michael Jordan Rookie basketball card for $50 - I went to the card dealer in Adealide and  he told be its worth at least $700!!

[Redzone]

I always have a stall at the nambour swap meet every year, last saturday in july. Some years you sell $600 worth if stuff, other years nothing! I think it will be the latter this year, with the amount of money going around at the moment..

[Pop's-SS]

Did anyone see Graham (LX5008) there with his Extreme Blasting sign painted FB Panelvan?

 

Had a chat with him yesterday arvo and he got some panels for his van for a "just in case bingle" and he was happy with his buy plus he handed out heaps of business cards for Extreme Blasting.

 

I try to go to as many swaps as I can but usually find that most stuff is sold between stall holders on the Saturday and there is usually slim pickings on the main day Sunday

 

My wife and I are the organisers for our annual Fathers Day Swap here in Cootamundra on Sunday September 1 (my birthday) and this will be the 22nd year our club has been holding this event.

 

We have 125 sites already booked and will probably end up having over 220 like we did last year.

 

Graham told me that the Gosford Swap is not run like ours, it is "first in first served for sites" were ours is a numbered sites system as we find that most stall holders want the same spot as last year or prefer a certain position site where they think that they will get more customers through.

 

I do get a bit frustrated on the Sunday as I am helping out with stall holders directing them to their sites and not being able to get a decent look for any goodies  

 

 

Good ol' evilbay has thinned out the pickings especially for Torana bits but sometimes you can get lucky and besides that, it is a great social event AND a top place to pick up some leads on Torana stuff.

 

Barry

 

 

[orangeLJ]

I must have missed everbody that came up for the Gosford swap, didn't even pick a face in the crowd anywhere.

[blown308]

have not been to a swap in over 3 years.. havent had the need to go.. but now I am back in Torana Land.. maybe its time to start again