Slough Swap Meet Sunday 26th November (it’s in Newbury)

Tickets booked, even though you pay extra, I seem to remember a faster moving queue in the cold.

 

must get mine

 

Bumped into a few familiar faces there yesterday and had a good mooch around.
Got myself an engine lid, side glass, belly pan and a few bits of trim for the splitty.

Anyone else get anything exciting?

 

VW specific .. One scratched but German made rear light lens for a fiver.

Some coffees for which I waited 30 mins..

A wheel alignment tool. £10
A hand held circular saw (mains powered) £10
An electric fuel pump. £5
A Swapmeet T-shirt which was the most expensive thing £20.

 

I went , it was as good as always

 

From my memory, slough was rubbish, really rubbish. I was furious with myself paying to get in and not much about, but Newbury was/is brilliant. So much more to it.

Unless of course, I completely missed 90% of the stalls in slough

 

I used to like it at slough , bit of car park trading and definitely more car park socialising and car admirers, think there’s less car/ carpark action now but plenty of stuff at both

 

I miss the grumpy people trying to use the rest of the sports centre fighting for the car park and struggling to get past the queues for the swapmeet. Newbury Racecourse is fairly laid back in comparison.
I think the eventual "killer" must have been when we were also sharing space with a seasonal ice rink..

 

There was a tiny bit of car park trading. There was a guy doing something or other from a serious looking V8 black Holden ute that forced me to go over and chat for a moment or two. I was half looking for or just keeping my eyes open for a noisy cupboard door for my early. Someone there in the main hall had maybe eight or so for sale, some early and some lates and I had a rummage through and found a nice one in a weirdy blue colour with a U.S. plate still attached, then I asked the chap how much for this and he told me, so I said “ I’ll just gently put this back down then “ and then hurried off. Wow, I had no idea that parts fetched these kind of prices, now I feel guilty because parts are parts and the prices are the prices and I must be seriously living in the past. Not sure who the chap was , but my sincere apologies if he’s on here and reads this. There was a little more car park action over by a certain T25 with a few things spread out on a tarp on the floor and a couple of vans and a car or two with for sale signs in the windscreen. All in All initially it was a bit of a crush down stairs but thinned out to reasonable after an hour or so but the stairs up to the next floor was akin to scaling Everest, thought I was on my way to meet my maker.

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,, sausage and bacon baggy on the way home was ace

 

I went upstairs to start with as downstairs was just mental.

How much was the engine lid btw? I collected an engine lid for the split that was well over 1/2 the price of a new repro one and needs no work.

 

Not really a hundred percent sure as I’d immediately blocked it out mentally. Somewhere in the region of two hundred and thirty or two hundred and forty pounds. I’d seen one previously about four or five stalls away that needed a fair bit of work to it and was bubbling like a cappuccino on steroids. That was for sale for what I thought was thirty quid and had a really poor £ sign in front. In hindsight I’m thinking that the poor £ sign was probably a 2 but at that stage I couldn’t let myself believe that it was £230 which is why I was in shock at the other one. Now I’ve just finished telling myself off because a nice original noisy cupboard door in good shape all over is well worth that. You’d probably pay more for a tailgate for my Zafira if it was in for repair after a shunt. I’ll have to start saving up I guess

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,,,I’m always tight when I’m hungry