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The 2025 SPRING Camp Plymouth Military Vehicle Show & Swap Meet has been the largest annual show for ex-military vehicles (MVs) west of the Mississippi since the late 1970s. It is hosted by the Military Vehicle Collectors of California, the nation's largest regional MV club. Since 2019 the show has been at the 49er Village RV Resort, 18265 Hwy 49 in the old west town of Plymouth, CA, and adjacent Amador County Fairgrounds, 18343 Empire St. Dates are April 16 through 19, 2025, ending late Saturday. Sunday is a pull-out day, not a show day. OK to arrive as early as the prior Sunday, the discounted group rates at the RV park are good all week.
All MVs welcome, any condition. No admission or parking fees, no MV registration fee, no vendor fee but all sellers must rent a campsite or cabin. RV sites, cabins are at the 49er but no tenting there. Tent sites are at the fairgrounds. Visitor parking lot and trailer storage is at the fairgrounds just inside the Empire St. gate. Anyone with a rented site may sell parts and military collectibles. Hotels, other lodging, and restaurants are nearby. A large grocery store is an easy walk.
There will be two themed MV showcases on Saturday at the Fairgrounds arena, 10:30 to 1:30: "Emergency Military Vehicles - Ambulance, Fire, Police, Wrecker, Crash Truck." At the other end of the arena, "Vehicles that were at the D-Day Normandy 80 Year Anniversary in June 2024, and Vehicles that Landed on that Beachhead During the Invasion." Yes, many in this region shipped their MVs to France for that event. Offsite MV Excursion Thursday to Sanders Aeronautics and Sanders Smoke Technologies near Ione, manufacturer of air show smoke generators, plus a warbird restoration and race shop. They are the worldwide experts on the Hawker Sea Fury fighter. Photo op with warbirds. Womens social Thursday and an offsite luncheon and shopping trip Friday. Carter W-O Jeep Carburetor Seminar Friday. MVCC member meeting Saturday morning, all welcome. Offsite MV Poker Rally in the afternoon. Raffle and dinner in the barn near the tent campground Saturday at 6 pm.
If you have a military ambulance, any condition, even if not marked, bring it to the Emergency Vehicles Showcase!
Golf cart rental program, plus RV/travel trailer discounts including delivery, set up, pick up, details will be up soon on www.MVCCNews.net. For reserving campsites, use the reservation form that will soon be there and in the next MVCC newsletter.
Visit our show plus historic gold country sites and towns and the dozens of wineries just outside Plymouth. Consider visiting Northern California attractions before or after Camp Plymouth.
Sanders built the famous Reno Air Races winner Dreadnaught in the early 1980s, a modified Hawker Sea Fury. Would you like a photo of you and your MV with Dreadnaught?
Sanders built the first self-contained smoke generators for air show airplanes. Reason was to avoid the mess of generators that pumped smoke oil into exhaust manifolds and left oil on the fuselage. They sell these worldwide to civilian and military customers. One is a bomb-like device that usually attaches near the fuselage. Here is a Sea Fury with Smokewinder generators, which look much like Sidewinder missiles and go on standard rails. Note the wingtip vortices.
Dreadnought has larger smoke oil tanks in the gun bays.
All MVs welcome, any condition. No admission or parking fees, no MV registration fee, no vendor fee but all sellers must rent a campsite or cabin. RV sites, cabins are at the 49er but no tenting there. Tent sites are at the fairgrounds. Visitor parking lot and trailer storage is at the fairgrounds just inside the Empire St. gate. Anyone with a rented site may sell parts and military collectibles. Hotels, other lodging, and restaurants are nearby. A large grocery store is an easy walk.
There will be two themed MV showcases on Saturday at the Fairgrounds arena, 10:30 to 1:30: "Emergency Military Vehicles - Ambulance, Fire, Police, Wrecker, Crash Truck." At the other end of the arena, "Vehicles that were at the D-Day Normandy 80 Year Anniversary in June 2024, and Vehicles that Landed on that Beachhead During the Invasion." Yes, many in this region shipped their MVs to France for that event. Offsite MV Excursion Thursday to Sanders Aeronautics and Sanders Smoke Technologies near Ione, manufacturer of air show smoke generators, plus a warbird restoration and race shop. They are the worldwide experts on the Hawker Sea Fury fighter. Photo op with warbirds. Womens social Thursday and an offsite luncheon and shopping trip Friday. Carter W-O Jeep Carburetor Seminar Friday. MVCC member meeting Saturday morning, all welcome. Offsite MV Poker Rally in the afternoon. Raffle and dinner in the barn near the tent campground Saturday at 6 pm.
If you have a military ambulance, any condition, even if not marked, bring it to the Emergency Vehicles Showcase!
Golf cart rental program, plus RV/travel trailer discounts including delivery, set up, pick up, details will be up soon on www.MVCCNews.net. For reserving campsites, use the reservation form that will soon be there and in the next MVCC newsletter.
Visit our show plus historic gold country sites and towns and the dozens of wineries just outside Plymouth. Consider visiting Northern California attractions before or after Camp Plymouth.
Sanders built the famous Reno Air Races winner Dreadnaught in the early 1980s, a modified Hawker Sea Fury. Would you like a photo of you and your MV with Dreadnaught?
Sanders built the first self-contained smoke generators for air show airplanes. Reason was to avoid the mess of generators that pumped smoke oil into exhaust manifolds and left oil on the fuselage. They sell these worldwide to civilian and military customers. One is a bomb-like device that usually attaches near the fuselage. Here is a Sea Fury with Smokewinder generators, which look much like Sidewinder missiles and go on standard rails. Note the wingtip vortices.
Dreadnought has larger smoke oil tanks in the gun bays.
