Event Coverage PORTLAND SWAP MEET,CUE the weather

If you are attending, better make it tomorrow morning. Weather has high winds and many inches of rainfall predicted (what else is new) for Saturday and Sunday.
Race track is open today and the weather is no all that bad.

 

24 is high? Around here that's a light breeze.

 

Thus the expression "we aint in Kansas anymore". 24 MPH here means it rains from the ground up as well as sideways.

 

I remember attending both ways. Downpours and sunny. Walking the track will be nasty when it is coming down in buckets.

 

Well the rain and such is pretty much typical weather for the Portland Swamp Meet
Be there again this year with great prices, Cuz we cheat the other guys & pass the savings on to HAMBers!

 

Is there a problem officer!
Us locals pray for rain swap meet week, keeps the rif raf out, more parts for us that way.

 

Are they still having the circus in the vending area??

 

There are some clowns running around.

 

I will be one of them tomorrow only. No way I'm sticking around for Saturday. Selling the Nova, stop by and say howdy. And bring some cash.

 

Last year was the great tent migration... The wind blew, they took to the skies, and never returned...

 

I saw several vehicles on trailers being hauled that way today including a Studebaker Lark wagon. Wind and rain at the Portland Swapmeet in April is about as traditional as it gets.

 

A friend of mine just sent me this. Sounds like someone bought it. Lets see some pictures and hear some reports of what was there!

 

I wish we were getting rain...expecting 1-3 inches of snow tomorrow and more in Sunday...maybe 7 inches! HEY WEATHERMAN! It's April! Stop with the snow already! And there's a local swap meet on Sunday. I won't be there.

 

............And guys, Please watch out for this 30 closed cab...it's mine, stolen from my dad's place in Tygh Valley, Oregon in 2005...I know it's a long shot but maybe, just maybe it'll eventually show up at the Portland Swap.. Last 4 digits of the stamped number are 9200...thanks.

 

I'll keep an eye out Rocky. With the weather report for Saturday and Sunday looking nasty, everyone serious will be there tomorrow.

I packed up some Bailys and Kahlua for he coffee. A guys gotta do something to stay warm.

 

What a shame. How the heck did anyone even know about it out there? That pretty remote and with very few people.

- EM

 

Meth heads across the road knew about it.

 

I was there today. Kind of soggy and didn't find anything I couldn't live without. Going to try again to waste some money tomorrow.

 

Anyone know what time it opens up at the track on Sunday? Thanks

 

PIR's last day is Saturday. Expo center goes until Sunday.

 

Ok thanks.

 

Gates close at 7am in the morning for those of us driving in.

 

I've got more crap than I need but I'll more than likely help with cleaning up the track after the shindig. Did it last year as a friend of PIR.

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Not raining right now. Someone get down here and buy my nova!

Here's a good one. Chrysler with a 4 cylinder turbo in the trunk. Keeping Portland swap meet weird for 54 years

 

Nice handles and locks. What's in the hump, wiper motor?

 

That's what it looked like

 

Here's a pic for @DDDenny , he likes this stuff

 

rain , wind, Portland.. what's new...

 

Up at 5:00am. Home at 8:00pm. Long day. I had a car to sell so I didn't get a chance to do a lot of surfing but I needed coffee to mix with my Bailys and Kahlua so I took a few shots on the way.
This was sweet! Didn't get a price but I got a number if you want to call


This was cool, I could see a HAMB build with a title something like "hey hey Boo boo, there's a picinic basket"

Sorry, no price or contact when I came by this morning. Close up on the door'

This was just f'n perfect.

Corvette tri power, claimed to be numbers correct.

Some flatty stuff,

Some trucks

Jail bar ford

A car with a solar panel installed.

Cool double nickel

Too early for scallops, I prefer a breakfast burrito

It wasn't the worst of times, not the best of times but beat picking shores out of the honey do jar and a lot better than working.

Oh, sold the Nova. had to drop the tag a bit but good sale. Big winds tomorrow, ill be watching the masters on TV from the comfort of my home. Portland swap meet 2018, $8 dollar beers, $7 dollar beer dogs, skanky swap meet chicks, one guy dressed like the tin man from wizard of OZ, rain till noon, sunny later...not all that bad really.

 

That Jail Bar 47 Ford pickup was a dandy, very clean simple and well done !