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41st Annual Fall/Winter Racing Memorabilia And Model Car Swap Meet
- Updated: December 1, 2015
The 41st Annual Fall/Winter Racing Collectibles and Memorabilia Show and Model Car Swap Meet will be held Sunday, December 6, 2016, at the Waukesha County Exposition Center west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Founded in the 1980s by the late racing photographer Mike Dunn and his wife Joan, the twice-a-year gathering features dealers of model car kits, promos, die-cast and tin autos of all scales.
A wide variety of auto racing collectibles including programs, yearbooks, photos and press kits from IndyCar, NASCAR and short tracks will also be offered for sale or trade.
Milwaukeean Dale Jones, who took over the show’s promotion from the Dunn family announced this week: “We are encouraged by the record number of tables that have been reserved for the show on December 6th. We still have a few dealer spaces available and it looks like we’ll be sold out by show time. We have continued to present this show to honor its founders Mike and Joan.”
Also scheduled to appear are representatives from the Badger Midget Racing Association, Great Lakes Dragaway, Vintage Modified Stock Cars, RacingNation.com and the High-Groove Racin’ Motorsports radio show.
Show hours will be 10:00am-2:00pm at the Exposition Center located south of I-94 (Exit 294) at 1000 Northview Road (west and south of Waukesha County Airport/Crites Field.)
For further details regarding the show, location or table availability, please go to www.milwaukeeminimotors.com. Email Jones at mkeminimotors@gmail.com or phone 414.651.1980.
Paul Gohde heard the sound of race cars early in his life.
Growing up in suburban Milwaukee, just north of Wisconsin State Fair Park in the 1950’s, Paul had no idea what “that noise” was all about that he heard several times a year. Finally, through prodding by friends of his parents, he was taken to several Thursday night modified stock car races on the old quarter-mile dirt track that was in the infield of the one-mile oval -and he was hooked.
The first Milwaukee Mile event that he attended was the 1959 Rex Mays Classic won by Johnny Thomson in the pink Racing Associates lay-down Offy built by the legendary Lujie Lesovsky. After the 100-miler Gohde got the winner’s autograph in the pits, something he couldn’t do when he saw Hank Aaron hit a home run at County Stadium, and, again, he was hooked.
Paul began attending the Indianapolis 500 in 1961, and saw A. J. Foyt’s first Indy win. He began covering races in 1965 for Racing Wheels newspaper in Vancouver, WA as a reporter/photographer and his first credentialed race was Jim Clark’s historic Indy win.Paul has also done reporting, columns and photography for Midwest Racing News since the mid-sixties, with the 1967 Hoosier 100 being his first big race to report for them.
He is a retired middle-grade teacher, an avid collector of vintage racing memorabilia, and a tour guide at Miller Park. Paul loves to explore abandoned race tracks both here and in Europe, with the Brooklands track in Weybridge England being his favorite. Married to Paula, they have three adult children and two cats.
Paul loves the diversity of all types of racing, “a factor that got me hooked in the first place.”