Porsche Barbecue, June 2nd (After our Friday Lit Meet)
- By Per Schroeder
- Apr 18, 2023
Our 2022 All-Porsche Car Show and Swap Meet was this past weekend. We had solid turn-out, great weather and there loads of neat cars in our parking lot for the show.
Friday night's literature meet was mostly held outside. The weather was beautiful, so the tents weren't even needed!
There were a lot of 914s in attendance. We counted at least 18 that were lined up, including several 914-6s
This Rubystone 964 Carrera RS was just imported to the states. Very, very cool car.
Dan Mainzer's Smyrna Green 356B was stunning in the sunlight.
This 1969 Signal Green 912 captured second in our Peoples' Choice car show. It is owned by Maureen Arata from New Haven, Indiana.
Chris Moore's Cashmere won best in show.
Cashmere's interior is as nice as the exterior.
We liked the period correct BBS alloys on this G-Body. Rad!
Mike Immarino's 356A Coupe was third in our Car Show. Always a favorite!
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After a year or more of worldwide turmoil, it's nice to get back to what we love. Looking at some sweet Porsches, finding bargains on vintage parts and talking to our friends from around the country. We've been holding our Stoddard All-Porsche Car Show and Swap Meet since 1987 and this one had the most cars on display that we can remember. They were wrapped around the parking lot and they were accompanied their owners, both young and old.
The vendor count was solid, but we were particularly happy with the show turn out. Plenty of neat Porsches, from early 356s through the latest models.
Our 2021 Stoddard Swap Meet starts tomorrown evening. We have received the Nicolas Hunziker designed shirts and they're available for sale!
You can see a video of Nicolas painting the original design by clicking here.
Our 34th Annual Stoddard Swap Meet is scheduled for June 4th and 5th, 2021. We are planning on having the Friday night literature and toy portion of the event outside. We're renting a second "circus" tent to make this work.
The 2022 LA Lit and Toy Show will be held February 26th at the LAX Hilton in Los Angeles. You can see more here:
Registration is now open! We are starting to figure out the schedule for the rest of the week. If you have a related event or open house, please email us at [email protected]
Our 33rd Annual Stoddard Swap Meet as held this past Saturday, August 29th. A wet weather forecast, cancelled car show portion and the current events all effected turn-out, but we were pleased with the attendance. There were approximately 40 vendors and we saw steady booth traffic throughout the morning. We were limited by the state of Ohio's limitations on mass gatherings, so the car show portion could not happen--but there certainly were some nice looking Porsches in the parking lot for our "Flea Market."
Planning for the Stoddard Swap Meet on August 28th and 29th is going well!
We will be enforcing a strict mask or face-covering policy and will be asking everyone to maintain safe social distancing to maintain the safety of our staff, customers and show attendees. To that end, we won't be opening up our facility like we normally do. Activities and sales will all happen outside.
To make this happen, we had to make a few operational changes to the event.
A) The Friday Literature and Toy Show will happen outside. We will be setting up the normal tables in front of our showroom garage door.
B) There will be no dinner provided on Friday night. We will, however, have our normal sandwich shop as a vendor on Saturday for both breakfast and lunch.
C) The new parts sales area will be set up outside. You can talk with a sales rep, let them know what you want, they will take payment and your phone number. We will call you when your parts are available for pick up at our shipping dock. This should go smoothly enough, but we are encouraging everyone to pre-order your parts for pick up at the swap meet. All show sales, pre-order or on-site will receive a 10% discount.
D) Our normal scratch-and-dent area will be set up outside, rather than our warehouse. This will take up the first few normal vendor spots from prior years.
E) Vendor spots will be spread out with spaces in between each vendor. This might cause some shifts in where certain vendors are versus where they were last year, but we will make every effort to keep things consistent. No more than four customers per booth at a time.
F) The car show has been cancelled. We are allowing Porsches to park in our normal parking area, but there must be no congregating or mass gatherings of more than 10 people in the area.
G) There will be no access to inside restrooms. We will have multiple port-o-potties and a wash station.