MVPA convention this week...
Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:21 pm
I went to Portland's MVPA convention yesterday (I live less than 100 miles from there so it wasn't along trip). I showed up a few minutes before the doors opened and was surprised to find only 13 folks ahead of me in line for the door less than 15 minutes before the doors opened! :blink: I was also surprised to see many vendors not there, their tables had stuff but with tarps over them. But by 11, most (if not all) were open for business. Display vehicles came in all day. Plenty of folks who knew me from the G503 forum and my Army Motors writing stopped to introduce themsevles, which was really neat.
Here is just part of the vendor area. I spent a lot, but not nearly as much as I thought I might as I went with a specific "shopping list"
This is just part of all the tracked vehicles in the display area:
This neat WW1 truck came from a museum in the Portland area along with a nice WW2 Japanese tank:
I found it odd that all the German WW2 vehicles were practically hidden from view, it would have easy to miss these altogether if you were in a hurry!
It's not a "military" vehicle exactly, but this "Flying Tigers" inspired Hot Rod sure turned some heads!
And I got to say howdy to my old pal Rob from "Mail Call" again and drool at some of the reproduction stuff he's working on now. He was the co-creator of the show and owns the GPW you saw in each episode:
Here is just part of the vendor area. I spent a lot, but not nearly as much as I thought I might as I went with a specific "shopping list"
This is just part of all the tracked vehicles in the display area:
This neat WW1 truck came from a museum in the Portland area along with a nice WW2 Japanese tank:
I found it odd that all the German WW2 vehicles were practically hidden from view, it would have easy to miss these altogether if you were in a hurry!
It's not a "military" vehicle exactly, but this "Flying Tigers" inspired Hot Rod sure turned some heads!
And I got to say howdy to my old pal Rob from "Mail Call" again and drool at some of the reproduction stuff he's working on now. He was the co-creator of the show and owns the GPW you saw in each episode:
Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:39 am
Cool stuff!
I liked the Kettenkrad shot...
Thank you for sharing!
Saludos,
Tulio
I liked the Kettenkrad shot...
Thank you for sharing!
Saludos,
Tulio
Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:11 pm
Funny thing, my wife and I went to Olympia WA for lunch today and got stuck in very slow traffic. After going around a curve I could clearly make out the top of a Jeep in the far left lane! 
They got off at the exit on I-5 for the Olympic Flight Museum, beats me where they were going but there was a WW2 Jeep with a motorcycle on a trailer, a Canadian (?) staff car and what appeared to be a WW2 commonwealth dispatch rider on some sort of military motorcycle. I guess they were heading for Canada?
I couldn't get very close but I had to chuckle at the irony!
More shots. I didn't take too many as I was focused on mostly seeing everything and looking for neat "stinky green" stuff to spend money on!
They got off at the exit on I-5 for the Olympic Flight Museum, beats me where they were going but there was a WW2 Jeep with a motorcycle on a trailer, a Canadian (?) staff car and what appeared to be a WW2 commonwealth dispatch rider on some sort of military motorcycle. I guess they were heading for Canada?
I couldn't get very close but I had to chuckle at the irony!
More shots. I didn't take too many as I was focused on mostly seeing everything and looking for neat "stinky green" stuff to spend money on!