Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:42:08 -0800
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From: Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: vanagon shows and swapmeets....JIM THOMPSON????
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Flu bug has hit twice in in the past 10 days, so I've been a bit "off list"
so to speak.
Pomona Swap Meet, Jan 15th
LA County Fairgrounds (Fairplex)
Pomona, CA
http://www.pomonaswapmeet.com/
The West Coast's largest, held every 6 weeks or so, with a rather sizeable
VW-Porsche section. Some neat finds, but a lotta garbage too ;-) The
January edition may be a bit slower as most people are broke just after the
holidays. However, this year it falls on the same weekend as.....
Buses By The Bridge X
Windsor Beach State Park
Lake Havasu City, AZ
Jan 13th thru the 15th
Looks to be a sizeable Type 2, Westy , Eurovan & EVC crowd to be attending,
many of those coming have indicated on the frappr site. Could be the
biggest one to happen in quite awhile. There will be some parts sales and
swapping going on there for sure.
http://www.busesbythebridge.com/
OR
http://www.frappr.com/bbbx
Frappr shows 89 registrations, but based on all the talk, sounds like a lot
more are coming, so it might put a tiny dent into Pomona.
For those that are interested, the Annual VW Porsche Toy and Literature Show
held at the LAX Hilton, instead of being usually on the first
Saturday morning of February (4th), it will be held on the last Saturday of
February (25th) this year. Although heavy on the Porsche stuff, there is
quite a respectable showing of VW stuff to include rare & vintage small
parts. Never know what you'll find at this event and I have attended most
of them since it's inception over 20 years ago.
http://www.lalitandtoyshow.com/
There will be the usual OCTO show the next day (Sunday, the 26th,) at
Huntington Beach High School. Although OCTO is Pre-68 oriented, there's
always stuff for all models throughout the swap area, might be worth a
look-see.
http://www.octo.org/files/
--
Jim Thompson
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise"
72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
oldvolkshome@gmail.com
http://www.oldvolkshome.com
See You At Buses By The Bridge! :-)
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On 1/3/06, JordanVw@aol.com < JordanVw@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 1/3/06 2:45:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> groups.florian@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
> > hi list,
> >
> > my vanagon mechanic over in germany (i do not wor on my german van
> myself -
> > no space, and its a eurovan) is reaaly keen on flying over to california
> for
> > that " really big vw meeting and show and swap meet that happen in
> caliornia
> > i think in january maybe or so canyou find out for me where and when
> that
> > is?"
> >
> >
> > gzzzzzz so my question is is there a good list somewhere on the internet
> of
> > vw and especially van meets or even better yet - does someoone have an
> idea
> > what he is talking about?
> > would be a grea help. i owe him the favor of finding out.....
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > florian
> >
>
> hey Flo - he's prolly going out to Pomona.. huge swapmeet in orange
> county.. where is Jim Thompson of the Old Volks Home? he usually is up
> on all
> the SoCal swapmeets......
>
> chris
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