The dates for POWER BIG MEET 2024 – one of the biggest car shows and swap meets in the world – is July 4-6. For our 45th annual event we will be back at the Hovby Airfield outside of Lidköping in Sweden. The 2023 Power Big Meet had visitors from over 40 countries around the world. Its the undisputed premiere show for classic American cars! Over 13.000 cars came through the gates in 2023. Power Big Meet is a truly fantastic event!
TO VIEW 42 page story from American Car Club Swedens Magazine Americar please click on link below. The words are in Swedish but pictures tell the full story from this incredible event!
Click on the link above to see pictures of cars from all over europe visiting the 2023 POWER BIG MEET!
With almost 13.000 cars entering the Power Big Meet showground in Lidköping over 3 days July 6-8 over 1.000 came from other countries than Sweden. Thats an incredible number of visitors travelling from almost all European nations! Germany, Holland, Austria and Switzerland follow nearby Norway, Finland and Denmark in the car count. People travelling by air or regular passenger car came from virtually all corners if the world.
On Saturday July 8 the 4-line entrance to Big Meet never stopped flowing cars for almost 7 hours!
Power Big Meet 2023 was an incredible success.. Very hard to describe the amount of cars, the swap meet and the nightly cruise if you did not enjoy the show LIVE!
Hotells, campgrounds etc were fully booked in the region making Power Big Meet the biggest tourist draw in the host city area!
5000 POWER BIG MEET 2023 collector edition vanity license plates were givet our FREE at the entrance to this years show – one per car – on Friday and Saturday. Plates were all gone early Saturday.
On the Swedish sell forum TRADERA many collector items are sold every day. The 2023 Power Big Meet signs have been sold for for incredible money – considering the were given out for free – with the all time record scored on Friday July 21: 1885 sw.kr. or some 164€. It cost 20€ per person to enter the show! The BIG MEET vanity plates are a world wider collector item!!
Power Big Meet number 43 July 7-9 2022 in Lidköping was a hugh sucess!
Some 19.000 cars entered the the showgrounds over 3 days! Incredible! Enthusiast came from all over the world including Chile, Mexico, Canada, USA, Singapore, Australia, Turkey and Russia. Most prominent at the show were cars from Holland: at least 200 dutch cars made it to Lidköping. Probably at least as many from Germany. A shorter drive from continental Europe made a big difference! Weather was way better than the forecast so were sure that a lot of great pictures and memories were brought back from Power Big meet 2022!
WE DO have a long distance award 2023 ! Please come to the show judging area on Saturday July 8 and tell us about your trip to Power Big Meet 2022!!
Power Big Meet #43 July 7-9 was held in perfect weather. Light breeze and sunshine! Over 8000 cars came in through the gates on Friday and Saturday. 2 kilometers of cars six rows deep. What a sight! It was almost impossible to walk around the field and see all the incredible cars in one day!! Many great memories for classic car lovers around the world!
The swap meet street at Power Big Meet 2022 on the Hovby airfield outside of Lidköping in Sweden was STRONG. We pick the vendors – car parts and auto related products must dominate! Guests from Germany and Holland do most of the buying. But we hade visitors from Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Spain AND many other countries around the world spending heavy at Big Meet 2022. Thanks so much for coming to the show!
Hipoint of the 2019 Power Big Meet in Lidköping Sweden was the gathering of 13 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertibles from 1959. Has never happened since the factory production in Detroit in 1958-1959!
7200 cars on Friday July 5 and 7400 cars on Saturday July 6 made the show an incredible experiance! We had visitors from every country in Europe plus many American enthusiasts stunned by the quality and number of US classis. Several big time high rolleer collectors from the US could not believe the reality of Power Big Meet.
Watch the youtube video from the Biarritz Reunion and the 200 car “Fine Car Cruise” Friday night. Swedish commentary but look at the cars!!!!
Welcome back 2020!!!
Our second year at the Hovby Airport near Lidköping/Sweden proved very succesful. US Car enthusiasts from all over the world attended the show. Saturday alone over 9.000 cars came to the showground. Swap Meet vendors reported brisk sales – especially on the last day of the show as cooler weather gave relief from the extreme heat wave that has hit the Scandinavian countries this summer. Crusing in Lidköping at night was incredible to put it mildly. Thousands of high quality cars lined the streets for 10 kilometers!
One of many “HIGHS” of the show was when seven 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertibles parked side by side in front of an impressed crowd. A VERY unusual event! Power Big Meet 2018 saw an incredible number of unusual high quality american 50:s and 60:s convertibles at the show. Best in show award went to Stefan Wernestrands fantastic 1960 Chrysler 300 F convertible.
One of the major attractions that makes Power Big Meet so special is the swap meet. If you are looking for hard to find parts this is the place! No other swap meet in the world can compete when it comes to parts for 1950:s American Car Parts. Reason being that Swedes bought 100:s of containers full of good parts in the US when they were almost free of charge in the 1970:s and 80:s. One of our 300 vendors sold 20.000 Euros worth of Cadillac parts! Already looking forward to the next Power Big Meet July 4-6 2019! Mark the date in your calender. And book your hotell rooms early on booking.com, hotells.com or the sight of your choice!
1,5 kilometers of swap meet at Power Big Meet 2017 was very impressive! You hade to be in Lidköping in person and walk the walk to take in HOW BIG IT WAS! Vendors report brisk sales and the number of old car parts vendors astonished many new visitors. Much better than swap meets in the USA was a common comment! Reason for this that so many old car parts were bought in the US by Swedes 20-40 years ago when the parts had almost no value!
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