2024 Portland Auto Swap Meet: Buy-sell cars, parts, memorabilia & More

This is a gigantic swap meet spread across 2 very large venues with indoor and outdoor vendors, engines, parts, and vehicles in all conditions.

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Another year, another Portland (Oregon) Auto Swap Meet. This is one that a couple of friends and myself do every year. The only downside this year was the ridiculous rental we were given (you'll see why in the 1st couple of pics). In case anyone hasn't read my previous years posts, this is a gigantic swap meet spread across 2 very large venues with indoor and outdoor vendors, engines, parts, and vehicles in all conditions (rust bucket complete restoration required to driver quality to immaculate restorations, and everything in between). You never know what you're going to find, either on the vehicle end or parts end, or engines end. Last year, there were more Ford engines, this year not really. More GM engines instead. Anyway you get the picture. I'll let the pics do the talking. There were definitely a couple of vehicles I was really tempted by, but decided not to since I don't have the room anymore and they would have been redundant. I also touched base with fellow foodie mobike008 and got some good recommendations for restaurants in the Seattle area which we were passing through on our way to the swap meet. Couldn't try them this time, but they're on my list. 

This was the disaster we received for our rental. If you've read any of my posts in the past, you may have gathered that I don't really have any positive views on electric or hybrid vehicles (for a variety of reasons). To each their own. Unfortunately, my buddy, who incidentally is a big time Jeeper, and has multiple rock crawling Jeeps that he takes to places Moab and Rubicon etc rented a Jeep. Instead of a Jeep, we got this thing. It was actually pretty hilarious the moment both of us realized we had gotten the Godawful "Jeep" 4Xe hybrid. Among other issues, it also had 20 inch tires, in a Jeep!!. It's a complete piece of bat guano in our opinion. Luckily, no one knew us down there, so they couldn't laugh at us for driving that thing!

Let the fun begin

Old Cadillac for sale 

Beautiful old Ford truck that had moss growing on it. 

This was waaaay overpriced, at around $20K. 

There were a bunch of old Jeeps this year. We hadn't seen that in years past. And all of them sold by the end of the Swap meet

One of my favourites. Old 1978 Bronco. Doesn't get any better than this

This was one we were both really tempted by. My favorite auto manufacturer. A 1968 Pontiac LeMans stick shift. Running and driving, needed some work but nothing major. Great price. These are the same body style as the legendary Pontiac GTO, but cheaper.

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