Pate Swap Meet : What do you think?

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Friday, December 28, 2012 - 09:44 am:

I mentioned this in Rob's thread about coming events, but it might get more response with its own headline.

The old Pate Swap Meet at the museum in Cresson is a fond memory. It was a fabulous event mixing sun, rain, mud, dust, miles of junk and treasure, and huge crowds of people spending money. One classic memory is of a guy from Colorado who had an old school bus full of Model T parts. A rainstorm left him on an island, and he laid down a causeway of hay bales so the customers could get to his space. After the event was moved to the speedway it was never the same, and I haven't been there since I sold the sign business eight years ago. So how is it now? Is there any old stuff, or is it all postwar junk?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Dallas TX on Friday, December 28, 2012 - 10:44 am:

Steve,

I was at nearly every Pate meet starting with the first one at the museum. We had perhaps 25 vendors that first year. I think it was about 1977?

The Lone Star T club always has several spaces and we always have several members with T parts for sale. This year there were a half dozen other vendors with T parts.

Was it worthy of a drive from Kansas to find good deals on T parts? I think not. If it is late model Mustang or Camaro parts you are after then Pate is the place for that.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By john kuehn on Friday, December 28, 2012 - 12:02 pm:

These days If I want to go to a meet for Model T parts Chickasha is the place to go.
The first few I went to years ago was pretty good for T guys but not much in my book anymore.
I dont like walking for half a day and finding a couple of T parts.
Pate is a 2 hr drive for me here in Texas but I dont go.
Chickasha is no. 1 in my book.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tim Eyssen - Abilene TX on Friday, December 28, 2012 - 12:23 pm:

I always go to Pate "Just In Case", but seldom find anything I cannot live without. It "ain't" like the old one, but sometimes you can find some T stuff---along with lots of flea market items. As previously stated, Chickasha is the place to be.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By george house on Friday, December 28, 2012 - 04:35 pm:

I'm Presbyterian so don't go to swap meets that have an entry fee although I also have wonderful memories of the old Pate meet in Cresson. But I'll never miss a Chickasha March event.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Terry Woods, Katy, Texas on Friday, December 28, 2012 - 06:33 pm:

Its been more than a decade since I attended a South Central Swap Meet at the Texas World Speedway, and I guess the lack of T parts is the reason that I haven't been back. For the few vendors that had a few T parts, it wasn't worth the 5 hour drive I have to make. I can see that many T parts at the hot rod swap meet in Conroe, Texas at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds. If I took all the T parts that I have to the Fort Worth swap meet, I know without a doubt that I'd have more T parts than all the other T parts vendors combined (based on past experience), and most would be 26-27 T parts, including a complete coupe and a complete fordor. I don't know why the large amount of T parts that showed up every year at Cresson, don't still show up at Fort Worth, In the early years, very little hot rod parts showed up at Cresson. As I remember it, there were more Ford parts (T, A, and V8) and all others combined.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Dallas TX on Friday, December 28, 2012 - 07:31 pm:

Pate does not have an entry fee for spectators. Parking is free too.


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