Car show, swap meet, car corral with raffle prizes, food trucks and music!
Hagen Park, Rancho Cordova CA.
Sacramento based Capital City Mopars Day in the Park October 4th
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Car show, swap meet, car corral with raffle prizes, food trucks and music!
Hagen Park, Rancho Cordova CA.
mopowers
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I plan on swinging by. I thought about bringing one of my Darts, but I'm curious - If you bring your car for the show, are you stuck there all day, or do they allow you to leave? I'm not sure I can last a full day out there.
Looks like the weather should be perfect.
Looks like the weather should be perfect.
Unofficially, we don’t have any requirement to stay. When the show was in June, sometimes some of the more seasoned participants would not want to stay in the sun all day. If people drive with respect of other people walking around, I would not see it as a problem
mopowers
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Awesome show today. Seemed to be a bunch of really nice cars. Nice meeting @RBConvert too.
I was pleasantly surprised how many cool old Dodge pickups were there.
I was pleasantly surprised how many cool old Dodge pickups were there.
Dartsun
Mopar Dude
Post some pics if you got some. Please
mopowers
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I didn't take any photos. I know the club that puts it on did though. They usually post them on their website. I'll see if I can find them.
Did you go?
I work the show every year. Car shows are a lot of work. When we attend them as spectators or participants, we are unaware of all that goes to to make it all happen. Many times, mistakes are made, corrections are made and it appears to others that it all went smoothly.
I did not get a chance to take pictures but I was sent these to me of my car.
I did not get a chance to take pictures but I was sent these to me of my car.
mopowers
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Very picturesque!
Dartsun
Mopar Dude
Love the charger Kern.
It was good to meet you too.
Brought the Dart this year; there must have been 20+ A Bodies at the show, by far the most heavily represented group. Lots of nice cars, and the weather was perfect with the highs in the high 70's.
In prior years, the bottleneck was getting past registration, even for pre-registered participants. This year the pre-reg cars skipped the registration line and went straight to the entrance. Signed the waiver, got our picture taken, and we were on the field in no time. Big shout out to whoever in your club changed the format.
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Here is one barracuda that was very nice
1WildRT
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I believe that is member "Ramcuda". Really nice Cuda...
mopowers
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We had resistance from some club members with the new way of processing the Pre Registered participants. The woman in the club that suggested it is a member of another club with new Chargers, Challengers, Magnums and 300s. Their club is almost exclusively online and mostly pre-registered so their events don't need as many volunteers to run.
Therein lies the problem that many clubs do have....finding people that will step up and volunteer to work the show. It is because of this that so many shows use that bullshit Participant Judging routine.
We used to cook the burgers and hot dogs for our show and it was a good money maker. It got harder to get people to run that part because it really is a lot of work from shopping for the food, transporting it and all the cooking supplies to the park, setting everything up, taking money, cooking, serving, clean up and stowing away everything after the show is done. In 2021 and 2022 the shows were held at an Elks Lodge and the conditions there were that the Lodge did the cooking and kept the money. In 2023 we were back at Hagen Park in Rancho Cordova. We called in food trucks from that point.
Our "master negotiators" of the club don't even charge the trucks anything...other shows do but for some reason, we don't. Maybe Sacramento isn't big enough to support the financial targets the catering truck folks need. It seems that if the trucks make money, they should pay something. The swap meet vendors do, the show car owners do too.
Therein lies the problem that many clubs do have....finding people that will step up and volunteer to work the show. It is because of this that so many shows use that bullshit Participant Judging routine.
We used to cook the burgers and hot dogs for our show and it was a good money maker. It got harder to get people to run that part because it really is a lot of work from shopping for the food, transporting it and all the cooking supplies to the park, setting everything up, taking money, cooking, serving, clean up and stowing away everything after the show is done. In 2021 and 2022 the shows were held at an Elks Lodge and the conditions there were that the Lodge did the cooking and kept the money. In 2023 we were back at Hagen Park in Rancho Cordova. We called in food trucks from that point.
Our "master negotiators" of the club don't even charge the trucks anything...other shows do but for some reason, we don't. Maybe Sacramento isn't big enough to support the financial targets the catering truck folks need. It seems that if the trucks make money, they should pay something. The swap meet vendors do, the show car owners do too.
The White Dart is familiar....
The row I was in had a nice representation; a 67, 68, 69, and 70 Dart.
I can see why the club doesn't cook anymore. It's a lot of work, and you don't know how much to buy. Buy too much and club members are eating hamburgers for the rest of the week.
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