Can't remember which was the "first" one but probably one of the Mopar gatherings Stephen Di Giulian / Nick Miller put on starting in the early 80's, Fort Hunt Park, Mopars at the Beach and a couple others that usually drew a decent local crowd, these were VA/MD shows but we had folks from WV, Pa and NJ drive down to attend. First big show would have been the Mopar Nationals around the same time frame.
Lee

Chrysler Classic at National Trail Raceway, May 1996. Rainy, miserable, no racing, decent swap meet. I was poor and disappointed. But it was the first one I'd been to and I was in awe.

This was early 80s!

This was early 80s!

This was early 80s!

Mighty Mopar Revival Sioux City Iowa 1985.

Mopar show at Midlothian IL Dodge or the mopar show at the farm in Lockport IL early 80's

Few more

Well, it was 2 brothers who'd told Henry Ford to take a hike and started their own company...

Actually for me it was either a WPC meet or an early Spring Fling in SoCal, in the '80s.

Mopars at the Grove in 89 at Great Lakes Dragaway. Have a VHS tape from the show organizer. A 15 year old me was on the video for about 3 seconds.
Second show was Mopar Nats in 90. Great memories.

Mopar nats 1987. Didn’t miss it for years.
KID

I used to go to the big all makes shows here in Northern CA. They used to have a "Street Machines Expo" at Cal Expo in Sacramento every Summer. Back then I was a Chevy guy so all the shows had plenty of Chevrolets to see. My first Mopar only show was also in Sacramento...Rancho Cordova to be exact. Capital City Mopars was the host. The year was 2001. I bought parts at the swap meet and casually passed by the cars. By 2003, my Charger was painted but the interior wasn't done. I entered the show in the "Under Construction" class and won first place. The guy next to me was P I S S E D. Of the 4 cars in the class, he was shut out.
He had a beater '68 Barracuda that looked like it was parked overnight in Portland Oregon BUT the interior was all new. He complained so much, they dug around and found an extra trophy and gave it to him as an "Honorable mention".
Can you imagine a guy so excited to get a $6 trophy?

Carlisle in '87 or '88. Bought a pair of '68 340 exhaust manifolds. They had been displayed in the sun and were so hot I needed a couple of rags to carry them to the car.

Maybe one of the Charger meets down in Boerne, Texas. Beautiful country, beautiful cars......

The CMC Show in Naperville around 1995.

Great pics from back in the day thanks guys!

My first all-Mopar show was the first Mopar Nats - Chelsea, MI. I believe this was 1981. I had my 71 Hemi Charger there & among other people, met Rick Ehrenberg there & we have been friends ever since. Rick had his F-8 69 RR there & first we took a blast down the nearby highway in my Charger, then Rick took me for a blast in the RR. The early Mopar Nats at Chelsea proving grounds were the best. We took "track tours" around most of the huge complex, including the large high-banked oval. Hell that track was over 3 miles long. We were taken in smallish groups of cars - maybe 30 cars, & everybody had to follow a pace van driven by a Chrysler employee. We were not supposed to exceed 40 MPH or something like that - yeah right. By the time me & some buddies in Superbirds got on the track, we couldn't even see the pace van. It was game-on - I know we were going around 135 on the back straight. Chrysler figgered-out after a couple of years the potential for bad things happening & their liability, so they wisely pulled the plug on hosting this event! It sure was fun while it lasted though. Then there were the shows at the Dodge dealer in Columbus every summer back in the early-mid 80's. That was a very good little show too. First time I went there, Paul Suloff was there with the triple-red 70 Hemicuda convertible. That car was absolutely stunning. I'll post some pics when I get back to my desktop on Friday. I was also at the NEHOA show in York, PA. I believe in 1982 or 1983 with a buddy from Toledo.

Does Rick speak with a New York accent?

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Thats tbe Joe Kidd Dodge show...early 8ps time frame

you mentioned the NEHOA, and that jogged my old mind back to a "cruise" they had that passed through brookville, pa. back in the late 70's.
they stayed at the local holiday inn, and that evening and night, my brother and i attended their "show".
so i guess that would qualify for the first all mopar event i [and my brother] attended.