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Posted By: scott brockelman

The "National" is operated by a board of directors elected by the dealers. they then solicit bids from different venues. The Boston/New York area has been discussed before, the centers are very expensive and not workable, plus Boston is very expensive to fly to.

Cleveland is worn out. but they persist due to a bargain on the IX center. They also can not do the "smaller" markets such as ST Louis or Dallas, due to the small convention centers, years ago in the 1990's 600-700 dealers would make the numbers work, now they want 1000-1200.

It has reached a point of diminishing return.

BUT you must understand, the vintage cad people are the least of the their concern, it's geared towards new product and thousands of people attending, which if we had our own pre-war convention would be hundreds of people attending.

Unfortunately there is no right answer.