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I thought the swap meet part sucked when this show began..Bad enough that I never went back after the first few years.I finally went a handful of years ago and was impressed how there were more specialized strictly trucks vendors.Sure,there are less good body parts everywhere.They are installed on all these fine trucks that have been built with the latest popularity these trucks have become.I`ve seen it multiply 20 fold,at least.Just look at this site,magazines,and tv shows.It`s also just a matter of age.The longer a truck sits or is on the road the worse the condition of parts.People don`t part out nice running trucks.Expect it to get worse.In the early`89s I stumbled across a complete original paint`57 Belair front clip with trim laying around.I asked the property owner what he was doing with it and he sold it to me for $100.This was at a car shop.i sold it for $500 and thought I did great.It`s worth 3x that now,if you can find such a thing.Then,there`s this depression we`re in.Kinda have to figure that in.Not many are going to be running rust free part cross country with the high fuel prices just to have people look at them.my riend Dale still does because he`s from western maryland and has a place in Colorado.He travels back and forth a few times a year.He`s the guy behind the grandstand with that mountain of rustfree parts.he hardly had GM stuff because people out west are building trucks,too.He did sell the one `70 Chevy cab in the first few hours of the show.I think it`s a tribute to the love of this hobby that there even is a show with people turning out considering the millions of unemployed and hard times unseen since the great depression.This ain`t no recession.It`s depression #2.We just didn`t have FDIC,and all the social programs in place back in`29.I`ve never seen families losing their homes in the many recessions I`ve pulled through.i`ve never seen a recession that didn`t bounce back to where the economy was after a relatively short burp.I don`t expect much these days and anything show based on what we really don`t need that is continuing is an amazing thing to me.Keep the faith,this hobby`s not going away.