CARLISLE GM NATS NEEDS WORK!!!! - Page 3

**427king** · #21 06-25-2007, 11:29 PM

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Is one night motel gonna break your budget?

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Id have to disagree since the 59.00 hotel rooms at carlisle increase thier rates to 169.00 with a 2/3 night minimum. add taxes and such and its 600.00 to sleep in a roach motel for the weekend. Thats alot to pay for a weak swap meet and alot of overpriced cars outside that cant be bought right. The sole bright spot for the show are the show cars inside,but i dont think id drop over 1000.00 in 2 days solely to view them. Ebay has done alot to contribute to the weak attendance at swap meets by both vendors and spectators, however one thing ebay cant offer is a venue to look at some nicely restored cars,which this show certainly has.

**Steve Shauger** · #22 06-25-2007, 11:32 PM

Oh, the Corvette folks have their own show at Carlisle later this summer. You know how those Corvette owners are....

**Salvatore** · #23 06-26-2007, 12:55 AM

I liked the show alot this year. Got to shake hands with some of the guys on the Site and see the great work of the Arones and the Supercar Shop. I even took a new friend that has never been there before. He loved it. Swap meet/vendor area was weak. But what else is new? Carlisle on the whole has been weak in the parts dept for some years now. I blame ebay and the lack of the "non" car guys to do their shopping with out rummaging through the stuff like the old days. Mopar Carlisle is big now because it is only recent that Mopars have been stealin the shows. Hemi's, six pack cars etc. All the GM parts and cars have been used up and sorted through for almost 20 years now. But you guys are right. No excuse for not going. Fun just hanging out with BBBenny and looking at the great cars that are represented. Plus the food ain't to bad either.

**427king** · #24 06-26-2007, 01:20 AM

Sam, Some of us complain about the show so we can feel less guilty about not going.

**Bill Rose** · #25 06-26-2007, 01:24 AM

The GM Carlisle event used to be a different weekend, then they moved it to the same weekend as the Maryland (A.C.E.S.) Chevelle show which is a short distance from Carisle. There were over 200 Chevelles at the ACES show this weekend including mine. With 52 weekends to choose from, it wouldn't take a scientist to figure out, that the Carlisle event shouldn't have been moved to same weekend as one of the biggest/best Chevelle shows in the country.

**Steve Shauger** · #26 06-26-2007, 03:26 AM

I beg to differ, it was moved because it was fathers day weekend, not for any other reason. The Aces group certainly would be welcome, but they like their independent event.

CT Mark · #27 06-26-2007, 03:49 AM

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I beg to differ, it was moved because it was fathers day weekend, not for any other reason. The Aces group certainly would be welcome, but they like their independent event.

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I think Bill's point is that if the Carlisle people gave a crap about Chevelles, they wouldn't have moved the date to compete with the Maryland show...which was already well established when the change was made.

**Steve Shauger** · #28 06-26-2007, 04:15 AM

The GM Nationals has also been in July and August and again with little participation from Chevelle owners. I don't think its fair to think Carlisle doesn't care about that group. If the Chevelle community is interested, certainly they (the clubs collectively) should contact Carlisle productions and work together to change the date, if that is the only issue. I have heard from several hobbyist who desperately want to participate in a high level judged event. Maybe this discussion should be on the team Chevelle board...

**Bill Rose** · #29 06-26-2007, 04:37 AM

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I beg to differ, it was moved because it was fathers day weekend, not for any other reason. The Aces group certainly would be welcome, but they like their independent event.

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Not sure what your talking about. I didn't say they moved the show date for any specific reason. All I said was they moved it to the same weekend as the Maryland show, which has been on the same weekend for the past 20 years. If Carlisle is interested in having Chevelles there, they should think about moving it to one of the other 25 plus weekends of the show season. There's plenty of weekends with no fathers day in them.

**olredalert** · #30 06-26-2007, 05:00 AM

------No,,,Steve,,,How are those Corvette owners???.......Bill S

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