Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums General Petroliana Discussion The Iowa Gas and Bettendorf meets...A comparison?

Much of the talk at Iowa Gas this year centered on the impact the relatively new car show and swap meet in Bettendorf, Iowa had on it this year, and possibly would have in years to come. The Bettendorf event is a car show, general interest swap meet, and large gas/oil auction. It was organized by one of the American pickers, and began about a day after IG ended. There were observations at IG this year about the vendor count being down (that was obvious), with the reasoning being these gas/oil vendors had chosen to go to Bettendorf. So, I'd love to get some observations here from guys (either vendors or buyers) who attended Bettendorf....and perhaps even more interesting...from people who attended BOTH events this past week.

I guess I'd like to find out if Bettendorf wound up having that many strictly gas/oil vendors, which might have impacted this year's IG, as some had been predicting. That would also be helpful to sellers and buyers thinking about attending EITHER or BOTH events next year. Thanks, guys. John