MoparFest 2023.

[Dave6T4]

MoparFest at New Hamburg, Ontario on Saturday, August 19 and Sunday, August 20. New Hamburg is in the area of Kitchener/Waterloo on Hwy. 7, and is easily accessible from Hwy. 401. This is the largest Mopar show and swap meet in eastern Canada, usually with over 1500 cars on display. 2 or 3 hour drive from Buffalo or Detroit. See you there!

 

[moparedtn]

Hey Dave, you might want to post that show here:
Mopar Events, Meets, Car Shows
Sounds like a heck of a show!

 

[QuickBpBp]

MoparFest at New Hamburg, Ontario on Saturday, August 19 and Sunday, August 20. New Hamburg is in the area of Kitchener/Waterloo on Hwy. 7, and is easily accessible from Hwy. 401. This is the largest Mopar show and swap meet in eastern Canada, usually with over 1500 cars on display. 2 or 3 hour drive from Buffalo or Detroit. See you there!

Would like to attend this one day. Have a great show!!!

 

[gdrill]

Been twice. Will go again some day.

 

[71Beeper]

I'll be there both days with my Mopar buddies.
I'll be driving the 58 this year.
It belongs to my buddy who can no longer drive it.

 

[71dodgechargerrt]

I will be there with some Mopar friends and my wife is bringing her Challenger.

 

[Dave6T4]

I am up at 6 a.m. to get ready to head out to MoparFest at New Hamburg, Ontario. Yaaawn! Since retiring, I kinda forgot that 6 o'clock came twice on the same day. I am the pale yellow 1967 R/T with blue YOM licence plates. If you are a FBBO member and see it there, drop around and say Hi. There will also be a bunch of my WOMO friends there. Weatherman says it is going to be a great day. I will try to get pictures, but I spend a lot of my time there cruising the swap meet. Dave

 

[qkcuda]

I will be up at 6am tomorrow heading up. I am changing the starter on the Charger today.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I won’t be there with my 68 Charger R/T.

 

[Dave6T4]

I won’t be there with my 68 Charger R/T.

You missed a great show. The weather was beautiful; about 75 degrees in the sun, with a slight breeze. There were about 1500 Mopars there, but the swap meet looked to have quite a few empty vendor spots. Still, I found some stuff I needed for my '64 Polara and another die cast (1/25 scale '71 Challenger in Ramchargers livery). I got to talk with a lot of Mopar friends I have not seen in a while. I took some pictures and will post later today.
The only downside was coming home on a tilt-and-load! My alternator through-bolt snapped off again. Last year it did this the weekend before MoparFest. That was after the car was on the road for 30 years. This time, it only lasted a year. I will have to figure out what is going on here. Maybe I should use Grade 5 bolt instead of Grade 8? I am going to check alignments.
I saw a car for sale there right up your alley, R.C. 1967 Hemi GTX for only $65,000Can. No powertrain, no trim, not much interior, crappy body and paint. You could likely throw another $100,000 at it, and still not be done.

 

[Dave6T4]

MoparFest pictures;

 

[Dave6T4]

More MoparFest pictures:

 

[Dave6T4]

More yet:
My friend, Reg, built his 1936 Dodge hot rod truck powered with Gen 3 Hemi, and then built his tilt-and-load to haul it to shows. Big truck is on a Kenworth chassis, with 1946 Dodge cab and front end. Hood and fenders had to be stretched and widened to clear the big turbo-diesel and Kenworth mechanicals. I called it a 1946 Big Horn, and he liked it. Notice the John Deere green on the car hauler. Reg is a cash cropper, and has a lot of green stuff on his farm.

 

[qkcuda]

Here are some from Sunday

 

[qkcuda]

Some more

 

[qkcuda]

A few more

 

[71Beeper]

Here's my gang on Saturday.

On Sunday - sadly the Christine car did not make it due to transmission issues.
The black Duster is my brothers and the green one belongs to my buddy.

 

[gkent]

They need someone new to organize the swap meet vendors and crack the whip. A 100% sellout of spaces but less than 50% filled is an issue. Those guys are part of the attraction and should have to show up. The solution is simple enough - a significant deposit up front - refundable after day one. Sure, the weather was crappy on Friday for setup but Saturday and Sunday were gorgeous.

 

[hdwrench]

looks like a good show , glad y’all had some decent weather it sure has been spotty!