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Old 03-06-12, 21:22
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Default OMVA Summer Show June 23rd

In Oshawa at the Tank Museum.

Dealer set-up from 7 am, dealers only!!! If the dealer has a "helper" he has to be a Club member or he registers and pays a $5 fee.
Maximum 1 helper per dealer.

From 8am, on entrance to Club Members and guests. All guest and visitors pay $5 each. No exceptions.

Outside setup costs $35.00. Inside, upto 2 tables $30.
Only exceptions are clubs or other groups displaying WITH PERMISSION!

Phone Peter S to register for tables. Or e mail.

We STILL need a couple of volunteers to clean and set up tables Friday
the 22nd. If you can help call or e mail Syd Schatzker.
More to come.

Peter S
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Old 17-06-12, 02:00
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Default omva show?

Where can a person get info on this show as to times and location?
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Old 24-06-12, 23:51
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Show Report???
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Old 25-06-12, 00:55
peter simundson peter simundson is offline
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Default Show Report?

Less members attended than normal and fewer guests.

Great day, very hot. Lots of deals, some bargains.

Is a Carrier crank handle a bargain at $500? Or a 25 pdr sight at
$350. OR Carrier grease nipples at $4 each.

Two boxes for the inside back of a Mk 2 were $200. I thought that
was a good deal. But no one took it.

Andre Gibeault travelled from Montreal with a load of parts at fair $.

Anyway it worked out well for most dealers and visitors.

Maybe more later..maybe not.
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Old 25-06-12, 11:43
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Peter,

you comment about numbers of members being down.

Frankly I think the OMVA is suffering the same as other vehicle groups that were born in the pre world wide intraweb days.

Many people are up against distance and time and going to such an event is yielding less and less for the efforts involved.

So much is traded these days on ebay and other sites that parts sales are done directly with dealers using paypal and credit cards delivered directly to home.

I am a long time member of a Land Rover group and we are suffering the same decline. Many members find the camradre online in forums superior to local knowledge.

It is a sad sign of the times.

As far as the great unwashed masses ie the general public we are fighting huge competition for summer entertainment by a generation that has no connection or interest to things military or war related. Add to that the cost of advertising such an event and we are bound to see less attendees.

Those of us in the 50 plus age range are dinosaurs in our interests and those coming behind are thin on the ground with such interests it would seem.

That is my viewpoint, anyone care to counter that?

R
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Old 25-06-12, 21:30
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Your points are well thought out and right. There always has been four types of people who attend the shows,
the curious guest, the builder/collector, the
parts dealer, and the parts dealer/ collector, businessman.
In the old days of the Club the big collectors such as Don Smith, Bill Gregg and Frank Grant never came to the Shows or brought vehicles.
They wouldn't say why, they just wouldn't. You could ask but wouldn't get an answer.
15 cwt builders are getting scarce. Carriers are in the forefront now (I
wonder how long that will last). I talked to the table guys and the ones I talked too seemed happy. Except for a couple who are never happy.
Andre, Bob Phillips, Frank, Colin all went away happy. I sure did.
A couple of dealers bring overpriced militaria, (by overpriced I mean twice Militaria Show prices) and are disappointed it doesn't sell.
The Fall and Winter Shows are more of a meet and greet, Old Boy Show.
Then again no one has to do any work on them but me so nobody complains.
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Old 25-06-12, 21:50
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I would have been there as usual but work got in the way. I usually fair pretty well at the summer show and certainly enjoy talking with the guys and helping out whoever I can.
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1966 M274A2 Mule BMY USMC
1958 M274 Mule Willys US Army
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1981 MANAC 3/4T CDN trailer
1943 Converto Airborne Trailer
1983 M1009 CUCV

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