Blackhawk Chapter

[BoschZEV]

But you do bring up the probability that buyers may no longer be anonymous at meets!
I can't shop because vendors recognize me, and prices skyrocket.

It will be a long time before image recognition software will help with parts, but it's almost to the point where it can help sellers at swap meets. Using cameras to identify who is approaching well before they get to a booth would allow them to either quickly change price labels, or post a sign saying "Back in 30 minutes" and duck for cover, as a appropriate...

[T. Cotten]

It will be a long time before image recognition software will help with parts, but it's almost to the point where it can help sellers at swap meets. Using cameras to identify who is approaching well before they get to a booth would allow them to either quickly change price labels, or post a sign saying "Back in 30 minutes" and duck for cover, as a appropriate...

I don't want anything pointed at me.
Even at my finger tips.
Cameras can now steal more than your souls....

....Paranoid Cotten
PS: Anybody can steal a soul! Google me and see.

[duffeycycles]

At swaps the best buyers are often vendors who don't have time to look
I often sell on ebay to the same people I see at meets,
but on ebay the part is identified for them and they get time to look at it
I have always tried to set up booths so the stuff can be found easily-I was criticized at Minnesota meet for too much orginization-it worked for sales.I will put up signs for the special stuff

[BoschZEV]

I don't want anything pointed at me.
Even at my finger tips.
Cameras can now steal more than your souls....

I'm afraid that ship has sailed. If you don't want security cameras aimed at you your only choice is to stay home with your curtains drawn.

[T. Cotten]

I'm afraid that ship has sailed. If you don't want security cameras aimed at you your only choice is to stay home with your curtains drawn.

So please delete "can" from my previous post.
(Electronic surveillance isn't my preferred concept of immortality.)

Back to topic: How can the AMCA diversify and broaden its scope without splintering? For the sake of vintage motorcycling of course....

....Cotten

[Robert Luland]

You people live in a fantasy world! Cameras to identify people at meets? Prices go up went they see you? Cotten start taking your medication again. This is all bullshit! Bob L

[shelbyinparadise]

I'm not positive either, which parent ran off with a different mate, but the experience leaves me feeling a little ashamed (plagiarized from a friend's perspective).
So I will visit both as regularly as I can manage, for as long as I feel compelled to do so (I love compulsion).
With fine friends and allegiances on both sides of this invisible fence, I'll have to refuse to carry either's flag. If they don't work it out we'll still survive.
Just have to hope that the floating masses are positive. Let time sink the negatives.

I sure hope you are right that we will survive as a club, in this issue of the Club Magazine Board Members Minutes page 79 item two, an officer of Florida Chapter admits to the Board that their location is not sufficient in available parking as required by P&P manual for a national swap meet location, The board refusing to admit they were misled in the first place, now will try to help bring it up to AMCA Standards instead of enforcing its own policy against substandard location.

Like Davenport, Eustis is prospering with the almost sold out Antique and Vintage Bike Show hosted by the VJMC, who abandoned their involvement in Silver Sands Horse Arena as unacceptable location for an all weather First Class Bike Show two years ago, and the support of the vendors that refused to make the change in location for many personal reasons.

This Club is worthy of another 60 years, I wish all the Chapters well, The Cherokee Chapter has had a very good year. See you in Davenport, Shelby

[BoschZEV]

You people live in a fantasy world! Cameras to identify people at meets?

The other possibility is, it was written in jest.

[T. Cotten]

You people live in a fantasy world! Cameras to identify people at meets? Prices go up went they see you? Cotten start taking your medication again. This is all bullshit! Bob L

Robert!

Which one in your avatar is you?

Thanks in advance,

....Cotten

[vph-d]

It seems to me that the amount of vendors at D-Port has been dropping the last few years. Has anyone else noticed this?
VPH-D

[T. Cotten]

VPH-D!

Quite the opposite; Didn't you go into the new buildings, or dozens of new spaces on the NE and SW corners?
If you only see American motorcycles, its easy to miss the forest for the trees.

....Cotten

[shelbyinparadise]

It seems to me that the amount of vendors at D-Port has been dropping the last few years. Has anyone else noticed this? VPH-D

As a long time cross country vendor of over 43 years, I have seen many ups and downs in attendance due to so many factors, and I am hopeful that the lower fuel costs will greatly increase travel, both from the vendors and public.

There has been little said about the behind the scene workings of the Swap meet circuit. The AMCA success is partly due to local gatherings years ago where swap meets were where people with parts would get together to barter for parts they needed and get rid of the stuff they did not need. Buying and selling paid the bills for the trip. People like Ron Paugh, Gary Bang, D & D cycle, Bruce Linsday, Ted Doering to name a few, started reproducing needed parts in small shops late 1960's, and the swap meets were the marketplace for dealers to see and obtain these new parts. Old original parts and project bikes keep people coming back

Events like Davenport, centrally located from both coasts, as well as regional events have weathered economic, political, and Mother Nature for years, and will survive as long as people want to buy a part they can look at and feel good about the transaction. EBay and other selling methods may take some cream off the top, but the business and social side of the swap meets will out live us.

Davenport is going on 44 years and looking at the big picture, is the most successful by many standards. Shelby

[Robert Luland]

but the business and social side of the swap meets will out live us.
Shelby, ya nailed it. It's not about money to me but being with people I care about. Some of them only one time a year. More than once I've gone home with out even covering my diesel but the three days with my friends was worth every dime. Bob L

[shelbyinparadise]

but the business and social side of the swap meets will out live us.
Shelby, ya nailed it. It's not about money to me but being with people I care about. Some of them only one time a year. More than once I've gone home with out even covering my diesel but the three days with my friends was worth every dime. Bob L

Thank you Bob, the vendors, friends and our customers is why we put up with everything else. This last year doing the cannonball was like doing a month of swap meets all at once, packing up and moving this portable circus of 300 folks across the country, everyday a different location, to set up next to different teams, solving problems, planning on how to move ahead, maintaining the machinery, both Motorcycles and support trucks.

I will turn 68 at Eustis and even with all the health problems, this has been my highlight year, more miles with great people, plus the work with the Cherokee Chapter, I feel Blessed to live this lifestyle with wonderful people. Shelby Withrow AMCA #7618

[duffeycycles]

Davenport has more vendors than ever.The rare obscure are now in museums,public & private.
The top bikes don't show up because they are too valuable to drag around[cannonball thieves won't help]
The demand for Hd's all vintages is stripping the supply of parts and bikes
Long live the King!