MOPAR NATIONALS

[twinscrew698]

Anyone here plan on going?
http://www.moparnats.org/
Any Secrets to pass along as to where to park for the shortest walk back to vehicle with swap meet parts?
What coolers are allowed in what areas etc you know stuff like that!

Anything that would help some of us that's never been there...Thanks

[Troy]

I'll be there. There's a lot right next to the swap but it fills up early. It's the main gate where the drag cars and some show cars enter. We've had coolers before and several members bring a grill and cook out (but I never read the rules).

Troy

[BrianShaughnessy]

I'll be at the Mopar Action booth in the mfg midway near Hemmings, MCG, MM, ME, Year One, etc. 

Don't be afraid to stop by and say Hi.

And don't get in the way of the MA golf cart when I'm on my break....  I'm heading for the swap meet!

[Tilar]

I've been thinking about going to this one. It's only an hour away. Besides there is supposed to be a motorcycle junk yard around Newark that has a coil I'm looking for, and this will be a good excuse to go get that. 

[Khyron]

Ohio is a bit of a drive for me. but i'll look forward to the pics

[bigred68]

 Hey Jesse how's everyone? My father,me and a good friend of ours Daryl West (bottom of the hill, Pioneer Trail and Peck)are heading down Sat. morn. We've gone every year for like the last 5 years. Bigred was actually purchased at the Nats about 25 years ago! We all carry very small coolers with 6packs in them, (okay maybe ONE water too!). Last year it seems we were givin a hard time about bringing the coolers in, but they let us anyhow! Maybe last year was the first year of actually enforceing the rules that have been in place for years not allowing that? Not sure. The Aug. 2009 Mopar Muscle has the "official" Mopar Nationals program. Yup, right here it does say:" NO traveling from pit side to show side. Alcoholic beverages and private sales of food or drink are prohibited on race track grounds". Yup, I think these rules have been in place for years,but never enforced? We've ALWAYS walked back and forth all day long, always with our little coolers in tote, only last year we were given alittle grief at the pay gate about our coolers, but the cop still let us through! Also, I 'm not sure what they're talking about waliking back and forth between pit side and show side? Whats that mean? We won't be aloud to walk between those areas anymore walking around the back side of the tower?   We get off of 270 at US 40 and head East. We usually eat B-fast at the Bob Evans there at that exit. After the long day we head back to Hooters at that exit start a long night. They always have a car show in that parking lot thats kinda' cool. After that we head to Brice road (usually the mall) and park and watch the cars go by! I know we've got our room already at the Red Roof Inn. off of Brice. (kinda' a dump!) We always park at gate F. Its on US 40 before the race track on the same side of the road. Always seems to be easy in, easy out!
Mopar Nationals informational hotline (313) 278-2240
National Trails Raceway (740) 928-5706
www.moparnats.org
Parknig at gate A or B on the other side of the race track might be better for someone carrying parts from the swap meet as these gates are closer to the actual swap meet part of the nats!
(and, on the same side of the road!)

[noff57]

I will also be attending for the first time, but hopefully not the last. 

[vancamp]

ive been 8-9 times but wont get to make it this year 

[chargerkid01]

The wife and I are going and hope to meet all the forum members we can!!

[jwilk01]

I will be going on Saturday and will probably just park out in the parking area with the General Lee.  I will make sure I wear my Dodgecharger.com t-shirt so be sure to say hey if you see me.

Later
Josh

[chargerkid01]

I we see you we will say hi for sure, I'm parking in the free bee parking and staying at the KOA campground All weekend!!!

[471_Magnum]

I'll be there all weekend.

I can generally be found late in the day sitting on the hill top drinking adult beverages watching the cars leave. Ghoste will be there too. Feel free to stop by and drink a cold one.

[twinscrew698]

Leaving here Fri morning sometime...Got a motel at Comfort Inn in Obetz.. Closest one around that family could get for me at a rate could not pass and this late in the game wanted to make sure we got a room for a night...Only staying til sat evening will try to find and look for some of ya on here..Got to take seats out of van as that is all i have for swap meet parts..now where is that little red wagon..Taking grandson for him to pull...HEH HEH...

[BrianShaughnessy]

Leaving in the morning.    Hopefully get Mopar Action tent setup tomorrow afternoon.  Maybe not.
Apparently I'm driving E-booger in my Cherokee - might be coming home alone on Sunday... maybe not.   Plans in the air yet.

[gibbsrcing]

plan on being there in the morning. going up with jwilk01. 

[twinscrew698]

I will make it a point to try to find some of ya down there...Hear its going to be HOT!!!

[Ghoste]

And with a 50% chance of t-storms on Saturday but I'll be there anyway.  Leaving in about 15 minutes.

[riggs626]

Ill be going saturday, will be my first year going does anyone have any pointers?

[richRTSE]

I should be there Friday morning, and coming home Sunday.

[Troy]

Ill be going saturday, will be my first year going does anyone have any pointers?

Drink water. Lots of water.

Leaving early in the AM. I'll be there all 3 days.

Troy

[greenpigs]

1 more tip wear a lite color shirt. My dad and I will be their saturday. I'll try and stop by Mopar Action tent.

[69_500]

Considering my wife had her gallbladder removed this morning my trip to the Nationals is in limbo. However she did say about 30 minutes ago that she wouldn't care if I still went over for tomorrow. Hopefully it wasn't just the medicine talking.

Anyone that is there, please tell me this though. Is the black HEMI 500 that was at Carlisle there? If it is I'll definitely be trying to make it, if not then its probably a 50/50 if I will go.

[Troy]

Considering my wife had her gallbladder removed this morning my trip to the Nationals is in limbo. However she did say about 30 minutes ago that she wouldn't care if I still went over for tomorrow. Hopefully it wasn't just the medicine talking.

Anyone that is there, please tell me this though. Is the black HEMI 500 that was at Carlisle there? If it is I'll definitely be trying to make it, if not then its probably a 50/50 if I will go.

Yes, I already warned them you were coming... Jim also brought his black Daytona and was asking about you today.

If you can't make it call me (513-907-7844) and I'll take a ton of pictures for you. Hope your wife is feeling better ASAP.

Troy

[Bill Howell]

Great day at the Nats today. Found some pieces for the 72 I really needed and could not find anywhere else. Drove to Louisville this afternoon to attend the NSRA nats here tomorrow. What a great car show weekend.....lol

[69_500]

HEMI 500 and Jim's Daytona are both there? Looks like I need to find another memory card to take then. I'm heading out of here at 4 am should be there before gates open. Can't stay all day though as I promised the wife I'd be home at a decent hour on Saturday night. Trade off for leaving a day after surgery I guess.

[noff57]

Had a GREAT 1ST DAY!!!!! Ready for day two...

[flyinlow]

Great day at the track !

Cruised RT 79 Friday night. will need new tires by Monday.

Cops busted two ricers    Left the Mopars alone if you did not get crazy.

[TripleBlackGator]

I am sitting neck deep among present and future Maury Povich guests.  

[ODZKing]

I am sitting neck deep among present and future Maury Povich guests.  

[Bill Howell]

I am sitting neck deep among present and future Maury Povich guests.  

You know, I was thinking the same thing yesterday when I was there, but didn't say it. There are villages missing their idiots this weekend....lol

[greenpigs]

Great weather for a change. Parts were mostly rusty junk and I thought blankets and sunglasses were for state fairs. There was a Q5 69 Charger so i got to see what mine would look like, I hope. Not going next year. The RR shell made from replacement panels was cool. Didnt stop at mopar action tent as I was all out of taco bell gas.     

[gtx6970]

The weather couldn't have been any better overall, even with the light sprinkle of rain saturday morning. It did get as bit warm today though.Sales was down bigtime though, the economy is still digging at some I guess.

I did make a nice purchase though.

[Bill Howell]

I was able to find the vinyl top trim I have searched everywhere for. It was on the last row, one of the last dealers there, but he had exactly what I have been needing.
Well worth the trip just for those four pieces.

[BrianShaughnessy]

I am sitting neck deep among present and future Maury Povich guests. 

For the most part,  my weekend sucked.   Basically saw nothing of the show until the Sunday leftovers...    Most notably the Supercharger, the Pinks all out winner white 68 from WV,  and the black C500 that was in the dealer display at Carlisle. 

PA dodger (Dan) stopped by the tent Friday.    Spike and Troy stopped by for a chat on Sunday.

Drove ME editor Geoff Skunkard around on golf cart and chatted about my friend Al and Val's 68 GTX ragtop.

My hearing is shot even worse from being so close to the stupid racetrack.   I tried earplugs but then it was hard communicating with customers. 
 

I probably won't do this deal again on these same terms.


 

[TripleBlackGator]

I am sitting neck deep among present and future Maury Povich guests.  

I feel I should explain my comment. As I approach 50 years of age my tolerance for the asinine becomes literally zero. Case in point. I use to sit for 3 nights in a row on Brice Road and enjoy the Cruise and the occasional burnout. I gave that up 2 years ago because of what it had become which is auditions for not only Maury Povich but for Jerry Springer as well. I changed my Hotel location and where I watch the cruise based on positive word of mouth but damn if those auditions didn't move right along with me. I was surrounded by "Village Idiots" (Thank you Mr. Howell) and their offspring and subjected to the littlin's constant barrage of "BURNOUT, BURNOUT, BURNOUT!! at the top of their little lungs directly into my seated height ear. After about an hour of this they were given cardboard signs (inside out beer cases) on which their sperm and egg donating parents(?) scribbled "show us your boobs". Their incessant chant switched to that phrase for over and hour all the while being prodded by their slack jawed, mouth breathing friends and siblings to run up to any female of any age if either in a cruising car or just walking by and shove the sign in their face and demand they expose themselves. Gladly none did but doing so they were immediately ridiculed.

  Then there was the incident where these same little FU#K*RS (for lack of a better term) were standing on the shoulder of the road about 1 foot away from cars passing by and fishtailing from doing a burnout that the cops stopped to ask that everyone stay off the the shoulder for safety sake and here again come these hillbillies with about as much common sense as they have a decent dental plan to surround and berate the police who promptly arrested a couple of them for open containers. (There is a God)

  I could ramble on more about what I witnessed this past weekend but I think you get my drift. I have been attending the Nationals for nearly 20 years but I am seriously rethinking that. Some of you should know by now I don't care too much for Mob mentality.  

[ODZKing]

   Ya know Gator, I have had friends that have gone to MoparNats and said basically the same.  I will say, I have never been.  I have been to Carlisle and Moparfest for many years however and recklessness is not tolerated at either.  Don't get me wrong, I am all for having a good time but everyones definition of that is somewhat different.
There is a place for that behavior.  Enough said.
We have the Syracuse Nationals here each year and while it is not nearly that crazy, it tends to get a bit uncontrolled so to speak.  It's a shame that a few could ruin it for the many.

[Daytona R/T SE]

I am sitting neck deep among present and future Maury Povich guests.  

I feel I should explain my comment. As I approach 50 years of age my tolerance for the asinine becomes literally zero. Case in point. I use to sit for 3 nights in a row on Brice Road and enjoy the Cruise and the occasional burnout. I gave that up 2 years ago because of what it had become which is auditions for not only Maury Povich but for Jerry Springer as well. I changed my Hotel location and where I watch the cruise based on positive word of mouth but damn if those auditions didn't move right along with me. I was surrounded by "Village Idiots" (Thank you Mr. Howell) and their offspring and subjected to the littlin's constant barrage of "BURNOUT, BURNOUT, BURNOUT!! at the top of their little lungs directly into my seated height ear. After about an hour of this they were given cardboard signs (inside out beer cases) on which their sperm and egg donating parents(?) scribbled "show us your boobs". Their incessant chant switched to that phrase for over and hour all the while being prodded by their slack jawed, mouth breathing friends and siblings to run up to any female of any age if either in a cruising car or just walking by and shove the sign in their face and demand they expose themselves. Gladly none did but doing so they were immediately ridiculed.

  Then there was the incident where these same little FU#K*RS (for lack of a better term) were standing on the shoulder of the road about 1 foot away from cars passing by and fishtailing from doing a burnout that the cops stopped to ask that everyone stay off the the shoulder for safety sake and here again come these hillbillies with about as much common sense as they have a decent dental plan to surround and berate the police who promptly arrested a couple of them for open containers. (There is a God)

  I could ramble on more about what I witnessed this past weekend but I think you get my drift. I have been attending the Nationals for nearly 20 years but I am seriously rethinking that. Some of you should know by now I don't care too much for Mob mentality.  

One of the big reasons I have not gone to the Nationals since '06...

There is a high probability that I will never go again.

I will NEVER take a car there that I care about.

I don't even like leaving my Dodge Ram in the hotel parking lot.

I've seen beer cans sitting on the hoods of nice cars in the hotel parking lot.

I've seen inbreds throwing Frisbees between the cars in the hotel parking lot.

More inbreds playing baseball in the empty lot next to the hotel parking lot full of

nice, restored cars...

Obese middle-aged women drunk line dancing between my new truck and a nice car

parked next to me.

-No Music-

One of them had a HUGE key ring in her fat little hand, swinging it wildly around in

circles, spilling beer everywhere, repeatedly stumbling her fat, disgusting body up

against my paintjob...

I had to put a stop to that one...

Yes, I was told that I was the asshole.

So be it.

I'm an asshole.

What a news flash...

[Chris G.]

One of the big reasons I have not gone to the Nationals since '06...

I have never been to the Nats, but after reading what you typed, I know it's not a place I should bring a car to unless I get some experience of the place. It amazes me that year after year complaints about the place have no effect on the show. I think there's at least 20 threads (not posts) on Moparts complaining about how bad the show is.

It still draws a huge crowd, but people bitched about Brice and now they bitch about Heath. It seems people won't be satisfied until they are in Happytown where burnouts are supported by the local PD, and spending a weekend in someone elses town means you have all access to be a fool.

Like I said, I have never been, so I am nobody to judge. I have also never been to CC or MoparFest, but I would go just for the simple fact that I don't hear 90% bad and 10% good. Those events are the opposite.

[Aero426]

For the most part, I don't give a crap about Brice, Heath, the cruising, burnouts, all that.    I go to the nats to see cars, buy parts or sell parts and see old friends.   I choose a hotel out of the way that allows me to get in and out with a minimum of hassle.   At the end of the day I am beat and the last thing I want to do is stay out late.    I've had a good time watching the mayhem in the past, but for the most part, it's overrated.   

If you ignore what does or does not happen outside the show,  the common complaints about the nats are golf carts and a "just OK" venue of National Trail.   Yeah it could be better but the cars and people still show up.  Until that does not happen there isn't much of a reason to change anything.    I don't see a reason to not bring a car to the show.   There is still a lot to see and do.

[Ghoste]

That is about exactly my feelings can be summed up as well.  I don't bring a rare nice car, I bring a driver and I avoid Brice.  I did visit Heath this year but didn't stay long as I figured I would see enough traffic jams on I75 when I went home.
After going for 29 years I have at least one more in me. 

[y3chargerrt]

I have always wanted to go one time but I think I'll stick to Carlisle.

[Nacho-RT74]

The weather couldn't have been any better overall, even with the light sprinkle of rain saturday morning. It did get as bit warm today though.Sales was down bigtime though, the economy is still digging at some I guess.

I did make a nice purchase though.

I do know somebody from Belgium who will want one of those