The 91原创 Good Times Cruise-In Swap Meet and Classic Car Corral will be parking itself in the middle of the car show on Saturday.
In the past, the car corral and swap meet were on the Sunday following Cruise-In but organizers are banking on the change to help bring in more foot traffic to the marketplace.
"It's just a place for car guys to bring their leftover parts and pieces and pieces of vehicles that they don't either require anymore or they just want to clean out their garages. And then there's the other scene where the buyers may be looking for those exact parts and pieces," explained Dave Wormald, the organizer of the marketplace.
The event has been held most years with Cruise-In as another source of income which is then distributed to charities and community groups.
"I think the idea of moving it to Saturday is definitely going to create much more foot traffic for all the vendors," Wormald said.
With the move to Saturday, the Swap Meet and Classic Car Corral run the same hours as the car show and will take place in the parking lot by the Aldergrove Community Centre, the corner of Fraser Highway and 270 Street.
"It's not only is the parts and pieces available, but also information like guys that have this type of stuff, they probably know a lot about these particular old vehicles that maybe somebody new is just kind of getting into it. And these old guys provide a lot of good information for these guys to get them going," he added.
The area will have about 70 vendors and there's only one requirement 鈥� "Anything car related."
He explained in addition to vehicles and auto parts that are sold at the event, there will also be vendors with new and used goods. The items are often the kind of stuff to be found in man caves. Expect there to be collectibles, knickknacks, and tchotchkes.
Wormald said the vendors often come from the area but some further afield will also come for Cruise-In.
"I know we've had guys from Victoria. We've had I think a couple vendors from Alberta," he said.
And typically the Sunday car corral and swap meet would attract 300 to 500 people. Wormald, a fan of 1960's era Chevy trucks, is one of them but this is his first year involved in the organizing side of things.
He said after the event, they'll be getting feedback from the vendors about whether they liked the switch to Saturday.
