mhiscox
Expedition Leader
There's a substantial change in the timing of this year's Northwest SprinterFest, the annual low key West Coast get-together of Sprinter trucks, owners and interested onlookers. This NW Sprinterfest, the tenth, will be held on Saturday, May 30th in Tualatin, OR, a few miles south of Portland just off I-5. The change from the previous nine mid-April dates was made to comply with requests from those travelling a distance to move it closer to the summer travel season. The sponsors actually went one better, piggybacking it on annual Portland's Rose Festival celebration.
SprinterFest has always attracted a large number of rigs, from work trucks to campers and motorhomes, both the older T1Ns and the new NCV3s; last year was the biggest to date with something like five dozen trucks. There are usually dealer-sponsored demo drives and maybe a conversion company or two and other assorted vendors. I'll post up more as the event gets closer.
This is also the first year that Promasters and Transits have been around in numbers, and they are warmly invited to attend. At least one Transit conversion has commited to be there, and there may be some others. Even though there are so far only a few Transit/Promaster overland-style conversions, I'm hoping for at least a few of the Sprinter's competition will be there to make comparisons easy. If you've any interest in these vans, either for street use or for overlanding, you should consider dropping by if you're in the area. It's a pretty nice event and a very convenient way to see lots of examples of what you can do with a Euro-style van.
(Note, too, that if you're on the opposite coast, you can save several thousand miles of driving by attending the equally-nifty SprinterFest East held in Mechanicsburg, PA. I'll post up when I learn that date for sure.)
Here's the official blurb about NWSF:
SprinterFest has always attracted a large number of rigs, from work trucks to campers and motorhomes, both the older T1Ns and the new NCV3s; last year was the biggest to date with something like five dozen trucks. There are usually dealer-sponsored demo drives and maybe a conversion company or two and other assorted vendors. I'll post up more as the event gets closer.
This is also the first year that Promasters and Transits have been around in numbers, and they are warmly invited to attend. At least one Transit conversion has commited to be there, and there may be some others. Even though there are so far only a few Transit/Promaster overland-style conversions, I'm hoping for at least a few of the Sprinter's competition will be there to make comparisons easy. If you've any interest in these vans, either for street use or for overlanding, you should consider dropping by if you're in the area. It's a pretty nice event and a very convenient way to see lots of examples of what you can do with a Euro-style van.
(Note, too, that if you're on the opposite coast, you can save several thousand miles of driving by attending the equally-nifty SprinterFest East held in Mechanicsburg, PA. I'll post up when I learn that date for sure.)
Here's the official blurb about NWSF:
