Mopars with Big Daddy

I guess that I am just a bit jaded from attending other shows. Good turnout of vendors on Friday and Saturday. Started sprinkling rain a little before noon, but more of a pain. Stopped a little after 2 and just before 3:00 PM, it rained for less than 10 minutes probably. Everybody for the most part left at this point. Sunday was partly cloudy and windy. Still no foot traffic. Probably 25 to 30% of the vendors left Saturday afternoon. Sunday by 1:00 PM, probably closer to 70% gone.
I feel that if you factored out the new car classes, then the car count for the show cars were way off. The staff wants to do a good job, but I just do not feel that the move to the second weekend did them any favors. Two other major shows going on the same weekend did hurt them. I spoke to several vendors who reported very poor results and stated that they would probably not be back next year.
It would be nice to have a strong show in the Southeast, but the Farmington, NC or Chattanooga, TN. shows in May go up against each other and draw far more cars. Farmington has a huge swap meet. For whatever reason, the Florida show is going to need a major intervention to continue to survive as a show and not as a cruise-in.