I like that idea,  I think zen has messaged mike before.  I have been to the store in Nashville

I'll take her a post card tomorrow night

We had talked about paying Von Hot Rod to come to the show to increase visits, I thought about this earlier last year when Zen was going over to talk to them at their store, but why don't we offer them some Dough?
I personally think that it could be a win / win.  They would have more interest in coming and we could possibly get some national advertisements via the history channel.
Just a thought, but I bet if we advertised that they were going to be there we would get a bigger crowd than with the VHR appearance.
Just my $0.02,
KC

I like this idea! They would definitely be a huge hit and possibly bring their show with them, although I'm sure that they have a "filming season" and a non-filming season. If they are filming, they probably already have arrangements for the show. If they aren't, then they probably won't have all the film crew on hand to do a normal show. I've seen where they went to Sturgis, and that's in August, so I would bet they don't film for 6 months.

Either way, I'd love to see them pick through the vending area and we could even have a contest related to them and picking! It could be cool 

I'll talk to her tomorrow (if I can get there during her performance hours). I believe when Zen met him, they immediately got to talking about Zen's shirt because he was wearing a bugapaluza shirt. I believe Zen gave him a bag full of that year's show shirts. He HAS to be aware. Its just a matter of reminding a busy person that they need to come to this one.

I personally delivered Mike Wolfe a Bug-A-Paluza T-shirt (actually, 5 of them) on December 30, 2011.  The bag also had some of our business cards in it.  He said he had two of VWs in Nashville and would love to come if he could work it into his schedule.

He's a VW FANATIC . . . The seed has been planted . . . just needs to be watered every now an then.  I think we need to send them a sponsorship package.

Antique Archeology in Nashville.  I found out the store was opened through their web site before they ever talked about it on American Pickers.  He posted on Facebook and one afternoon that he would be at the Nashville store from noon until 4PM the next day.  I got held up in traffic because of a big pile-up on the interstate and didn't get there until about 2:30 . . . there was a line a half mile long out the door.  I got inside around 3:30 and I think it was around 5:00 when I finally got to the front of the line . . . he saw my Bug-A-Paluza shirt and kicked into high gear.  He started talking VWs and I think he would have talked for hours . . . but there were folks in line behind me that were starting to give me the evil eye, so I gave him a bag of shirts and told him to pick out what he wanted and give the rest to his staff, got my picture made and left before I got linched.  The line was longer when I left than when I got there.  I don't know how long he stayed, but he didn't get out of there at 4 like he had planned.

Liv got sleepy so Joy had taken her back to the car before we got to the front of the line, but we did get a picture of her on the Von Dutch VW motorcycle before she bailed . . .

Did not bring info but waiting in line to see Daniel,  I will def find info out