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Having started this thread, it has been interesting to read each reply. Here is an idea that might keep most happy, keep the flea market in the present location and move the car show to the paved area around the Giant Center. It would require cutting the car corral from 4 days to 3 days in its present location, leaving Sat open for the car show.Now with the car show off the grass that would leave the grass area open for the other day of the 4 day car corral or a special one day car corral and a one day fee. Remember as one reply stated, the area around the old stadium which is now the east end of the red field was used back in the 80s for day parking Wed through Friday then the show on Sat. Great place to have a show BUT that will never happen as that would require a lot of the red field to find a new home. So using the same part of the area for 2 differnt events in the same week is nothing new.If the spaces for the car show around the Giant Center are limited to x amount of cars which is less than those who who like to show, then set a max number of cars who can register and keep the show managable. If I remember correctly max numbers of cars were set back in the 60s for participation on the Glidden Tours.I think at one time the car could not be newer that 1936. So setting a limit on an activity is not new. When more space becomes available at Hershey then the limits come off.

I first started at Hershey years ago when I could park by the old stadium, walk the few rows in the old blue field, park your trailer next to the old arena on Friday and then on Saturday show your car on the grass inside the stadium. I had flea market spots in the old green field, then the swamp of the yellow field and now in the red field. For years I considered the show on Saturday the main event for my week at Hershey. The flea market grew ten fold over those years but the Saturday car show I still considered the primary event of the week.In my opinion over the last few years the car corral and flea market have pushed the car show aside as to why people come to Hershey. Of course during these years Herco started to expand Hershey Park and the Hershey Region did a remarkable job of continuing to move the flea market as well as the ever expanding car corral, plus the Saturday car show. In the past several years, I think the car show has even taken more of a back seat as to location with the primary placement being the car corral. Here is where I think the tail is wagging the the dog. The tail being the flea market and car corral. The Hershey Region and all their members are doing a fine job in trying to satisfy everyone and my thanks for their hard work but you can`t be a nice guy all the time and hope to survive. I think that for the Hershey show to survive, then some hard decisions will need to be made. The car show on Saturday should be #1 priority as to location, easy of getting into the show area and the parking of show cars on a hard surface. This was the case around the Giant Center in 2005, a great area to show cars.The Saturday show has been lucky the past two years on grass. For someone who has spent years and lots of money on restoring their car, give him a hard surface to show his car and a decent place to park his trailer. Make the Hershey car show the priority as to location at Hershey even if the region has to limit the spots of the car corral or cut down on the flea market. Ebay is killing flea markets and will continue to take business from the vendors at Hershey. Make the Sat show the reason to come to Hershey.If the whole Hershey meet has gotten to big then put a limit on the number of cars spots available for the car corral as well as cut down on the flea market spots. Make the vendors prove they are selling rather just using the spot to park and walk. But whatever decisions are made on 2008 Hershey, please give the priority to the car show.

Some caregivers have a 24/7 commitment and need to get away by themselves even for a short time.Unless you are or have been a 24/7 caregiver, you have no idea what a few hours by yourself means in coping with daily care giving.

What is so hard for some to understand what heavy rain and wind will do to a vendor`s parts and why we didn`t stand out in Friday`s frog choker? I bet those same people who complained about the vendors closing this year, probably complained last year because those awful vendors didn`t supply shade or sunscreen and they got a sunburn.

I have been selling at Hershey for about 25 years. I sell at one meet a year and that is Hershey.I sell a few parts but mostly have fun talking with old friends made over the years in tours and at Hershey. I can`t start to count the number of times in those 25 years that I have been rained on to the extent of getting stuck, watching parts float by my spot or watching big motor homes in the old green and white fields get pulled out. This was a regular happening in my old spot in the old Green field. Then there were those great 3 years in the swamp called the Yellow field. Now for the last few years I have been in the paved Red field. To those few who can`t understand why you did not find all those venders set up on Friday, what don`t you understand about 2.3 inches of rain from 6am Friday until 4pm. I invite you to look at what happens to parts after just a few days when they have been wet and then packed up. Even the people with tents had problems with the wind and rain on Friday. To answer what is wrong about Hershey- not a darn thing. I think you will find that there is a waiting list to get a spot at Hershey, rain or shine. Hershey is still a fun place to go, even if it rains. Some seem to forget the last 2 great dry years. I feel sorry for the people who drive great distance to buy parts and it rains but what bothers me is the way their frustations are then taken out on the vendors for not standing in the rain waiting just for them.