This past weekend was great for me even if on Sunday it rained most of the day and made my trip to the Ancaster swap meet a muddy mess. First on Saturday i went to the Motion Custom Car Show and met Bo Duke ........ er, i mean ..... John Schneider which was fun. Hell i can remember watching the Dukes of Hazzard when i was a kid on Friday nights, very cool. And make no mistake about it John is a nice guy and was very nice to my daughter who was so nervous to meet him. On Sunday Larry Winter and myself went to the Ancaster Swap Meet at it's new location to see what was there. It was a mud fest, as much mud as you could handle but it is a new unfinished place so i'm sure next time around it will be different and the cold March rain didn't help. We saw a Maverick for sale but i'm not too sure exactly what they wanted for it, i think i overheard $2600 or so? On the way home we went to the old Ancaster location and what a mess. So sad to see the old place tore up. I took a picture of the steps going to the track and compared it to a picture from the last swap meet there in October. Here's progress for you, trees and old track and now just a tore up field, very sad indeed. By the way all this is being done so they can put up more houses........ just what we need!
I knew someone would agree, man does change really suck sometimes. I bet the new houses will be massive and make someone a mint fo-sho'.
I know what you mean. The place that I used to take my Mavs as a kid and do some hot rodding and burying the speedo is now a high traffic 4 lane 35MPH road with buildings as far as you can see. Used to be 2 lane, dirt shoulders and trees and open fields as far as the eye could see. Change sucks for the most part.
Yep it really sucks to see the old fair grounds paved over. I live 10 minutes from there and grew up with the fair and made a ton of cash at the swap meets to fund my college days. Oh and cant forget getting hammered and going to the Ancaster fair to check out girls we could never get and then settle for watching the demo derby.through the teenage years. bananaman:bananaman I sold a Boss 302 distributor for 400 bucks there when I was about 19. Thought I won the lottery. Good times indeed.
Yeah i hear ya, good memories indeed. I did on the last day (October 2008) do a walk through with my oldest daughter and video taped the hall, car corral, up those stairs, and around the track walking and in the Comet with my daughter filming with the sign being the final thing i filmed. I just watched it before i went to the new grounds on Sunday. Thank God i did after seeing the mess of the old grounds.
