Re: How do other Mopar shows compare to the Spring Fling ?
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Mopars at the Red Barn at Gilmore Car Museum have around 450 mopars each year plus all the Gilmore cars you can view. Plus swap meet.
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Re: How do other Mopar shows compare to the Spring Fling ?
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Spring Fling is April 18 and 19, 2020. Free Spector admission
The show cars on Sunday are 50-60% different than Saturday. Sunday is judged so that brings the more rare restored stuff
Remember there are 11 million people that live less than an 1 1/2 hour drive from the show. So many owner bring one of their Mopars on Saturday and another one on Sunday. There are over 450 different Mopars at the show over the weekend. Lots of under and unrestored Mopars since our climate is so nice to them.
Mopar Swap is largest West of Mississippi. 160-175 swappers. About 4-5 times the size of MATS swap.
What’s unique is we don’t charge a lot for swap spots and we tend to get swappers just getting rid of excess stuff.
It’s only a 13 acre area. So we keep things tight and organized. We don’t have he luxury to spread out. I’m sure there are shows that look and free bigger, that number wise are not.
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Re: How do other Mopar shows compare to the Spring Fling ?
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Re: How do other Mopar shows compare to the Spring Fling ?
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Of course there’s a ton of places to visit in So Cal. But only 11.3 miles north of Spring Fling is the Nethercutt Museum and Collection. Straight north on 405 fwy The museum is free and has about 130 cars, fully restored 1912 locomotive and custom built Victorian era Pullman car. https://www.nethercuttcollection.org/Museum.aspxThen there is the “Nethercutt Collection” across the street. Also free admission. it’s really something unique an unforgettable https://www.nethercuttcollection.org/Collection.aspx THE NETHERCUTT COLLECTION Among the treasures spanning four floors in the collection’s original facility is one of the world’s most outstanding assortments of beautifully restored antique, classic automobiles. They are showcased in an exquisite re-creation of an opulent automotive grand salon of the 1920's and 1930's. An amazing collection of automobile mascots, antique furniture, clocks and watches, and one of the worlds finest collections of Mechanical Musical Instruments are displayed in our music room They only give tours of the Collection. Thursday,Friday & Saturday 10:00am or 1:30pm (only 1 tour available on Thursday & Friday) ADVANCED RESERVATIONS ONLY
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Re: How do other Mopar shows compare to the Spring Fling ?
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Of course there’s a ton of places to visit in So Cal. But only 11.3 miles north of Spring Fling is the Nethercutt Museum and Collection. Straight north on 405 fwy The museum is free and has about 130 cars, fully restored 1912 locomotive and custom built Victorian era Pullman car. https://www.nethercuttcollection.org/Museum.aspxThen there is the “Nethercutt Collection” across the street. Also free admission. it’s really something unique an unforgettable https://www.nethercuttcollection.org/Collection.aspx THE NETHERCUTT COLLECTION Among the treasures spanning four floors in the collection’s original facility is one of the world’s most outstanding assortments of beautifully restored antique, classic automobiles. They are showcased in an exquisite re-creation of an opulent automotive grand salon of the 1920's and 1930's. An amazing collection of automobile mascots, antique furniture, clocks and watches, and one of the worlds finest collections of Mechanical Musical Instruments are displayed in our music room They only give tours of the Collection. Thursday,Friday & Saturday 10:00am or 1:30pm (only 1 tour available on Thursday & Friday) ADVANCED RESERVATIONS ONLY The Nethercutt is amazing. The cars, furniture and that incredible pipe organ.
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Re: How do other Mopar shows compare to the Spring Fling ?
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Spring Fling is definetly bigger than Florida Garlits Show. Garlits Show declined a lot since it went to the horsetrack. Probably smaller than Fall Fling now
Carsten Wow, Haven’t been to Garlits show for several years, shame it has fallen off like that.
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Re: How do other Mopar shows compare to the Spring Fling ?
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I have been to both Carlisle and Spring Fling. They are probably the best two shows but they each have a different flavor.
Carlisle is massive. The parts section can easily take 6+ hours to walk through. The cars that are invited to be housed in the buildings are truly amazing. There are some pretty interesting cars in the car corral for sale. The reunions are fantastic. The only problem with Carlisle is the weather. If the weather is bad a lot of cars are left at home and the parts don't come out. It can be very muggy so bring water. If the weather is good it's incredible.
Spring Fling is really two different shows. Saturday is a larger swap with less cars. It takes about 1 1/2 hours to walk the swap. On Sunday is when the car judging is done so you get more cars and better cars. The great thing about Spring Fling is that the weather is almost always perfect. So turn out is pretty good.
It should be noted that both shows FEEL like they are getting smaller. Specially in the parts sections. Actually the show car field count is always larger on Saturday. Last year 23.9% more Mopars Saturday than Sunday. In 2016; 22.1% more Saturday It looks bigger Sunday because the cars are more spread out parked in classes. Also, the more you swap Saturday, the less time to look at show cars. Perception is reality when it comes to these deals. Unless you physically count every car, swap, and tabulate every paid entry its hard to judge. We could spread Spring Fling over a larger location and I would appear bigger. Layout is a big factor.
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