Oct.4, Midwest Fall Swap Meet & Antique Auto Show Minnesota State Fairgrounds St. Paul

Again, I usually don't do car show coverage but I will put this one on for now. My wife and I recently attended this show and swap meet sponsored by the Capitol City Chapter of AACA & Twin Cities Model "A" Ford Club, and eventually travelled a little way down the Mississippi for a fall colors drive before heading back to Thunder Bay. Even with the inclement weather, there was an incredible collection of model "A" Fords. I managed to pick up a few great deals at the end of the day for my new Ford "T" project. My favorite was the '50 Ford 2-door with the flattie and 3 deuces. There was a good variety of custom cars as well and only one example of a Rat Rod. Us northerners have to be vigilant now as the snow has already fallen here but quickly disappeared. As mentioned in the last post, the building season is now upon us as we hibernate for the winter(Man, I hate that word). Thanks for looking! click on photos to enlarge

Post Script....Please note that the half track is actually from Toronto, Ontario originally, enlarge poster to read. D

Today!...A few of the cars at the Thunder Bay Agriplex Car Show and Speed Challenge 2009....

Mister "C" at the mike....................... Hugh's Deuce 2-door .......Wally's Bumper

Wally's Buick .....................................Tony's Flames..............Tony's Pickemup

Rick's MSRA nomination 2009.. Randy's "Dad's '48 Monarch" ...How Low can you go.

Larry's '36 ...............................Jerry's Poncho......................Jamie's Chebby Pickup
Greg's Rattilac......................Patrick's long rat ...........Glen's Rat baby "T" pickup

Glen & Penny's grandson..................Dennis' very cool Rat front.............and back!

Bob's vintage "A" Pickup. Brians car is very 1950's..check the interior(take out the GPS Brian)

Andy's Caddy ........................I was there too in the weeds!!!

You can see my good friend Clarence Merko and his beautiful '57 T-bird with the mike in his hand. Mister "C" as we call him is totally at home with a microphone. He mc'd a great show for the Agriplex today. It was a beautiful sunny fall day at about 80 degrees(I still speak fahrenheit), and there was about 100 cars of all types in attendance, from vintage to rods to muscle. Organized by Barry Dejardine for the Agriplex, it was dubbed "The Car Show and Speed Challenge", as there were a number of horse events to top off the day showing true "Horsepower". Many great food and other vendors were also there. Thanks to all the volunteers that gave their time to have a great event, which I believe will be bigger and better each year. I don't usually cover shows and rod runs here but this will probably be about the last event of the season. Thanks for looking....and sorry Barry, I didn't have a photo of your car... Dave

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