Swap Meet 2008

The Portland Swap Meet is HUGE!!!!!

People... guys... come from hundreds of miles away to set up booths at the Expo Center every April.

When the Expo Center is completely full, they fill up the parking lot around the Expo Center. To get there, everyone parks in fields and buses to the Center.

When the parking lot is full, they expand to the Portland International Raceway!
That's where the Armstrongs could be found for an entire Thursday, Friday and Saturday... rain and all!!!
We got two spots together on Pit Row. Jeremy set up a '74 Short box for sale and the beautiful '70 long box, freshly painted hugger orange with a mean motor. In between we had all kinds of things guys at swap meets like... a tack, dash consol, seat covers, gas caps, license plate cover, speaker, radiator fan, and even a Nascar quilted curtain. Well, that didn't sell.

On the second day we brought out the Go-Kart which turned into a memorable HIT! We road up and down Pit Row and down all the side alleys of more booths and around and around dodging the track monitors! They have a one-way policy and a low speed policy that we had to continually remind ourselves to follow carefully. Hahahaha

I fit in the Go-Kart great and had a BLAST giving the kids tons of rides. We were happy to sell it, though. We don't have a nice racetrack at our house and Go-Karts are bumpy rides on gravel roads and muddy fields!!! (Not to mention the HILL and running down to make sure young drivers get turned back around fast enough!)