The world’s largest meeting for American Cars takes place this weekend in my town Västerås. Power Big Meet usually attracts at least 10 000 cars and thousands and thousands of visitors. This week’s weather has been hot and sunny with temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, so there are perfect conditions for 2006 to become the best year ever.
I went to Power Meet yesterday during the lunch break to see what it looked like. Cars everywhere! The whole Johannisberg airfield was occupied with all sorts of vechiles, and along the runways there was a long market selling everything from Chevrolet coolers to T-shirts and icecream.
During Power Meet, the whole city is transformed to a sort of 50′s/60′s city with old cars seen on every street. Not seldom do the owners fill their cars with twice the people it can take, meaning that there usually are people in the trunk.
Unfortunately, I didn’t bring my camera yesterday as I went to see the event, so there are no pictures I can show.
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I went to the Power Big Meet in Sweden for the first time last week and i Loved it! The City is Lovely and so was the show! I spent alot of time in Vasteras and the surrounding area I stayed in the hotel Arkad which was also nice dont know if you know it?
Yes, Västerås is a nice city, and especially during Power Meet. I know where Hotel Arkad is, it is close the city and located next to the musical school of Växhused, right? Great to hear people from UK speak well about my city, except for Power Meet there are very few tourists here.
i also went to the the power meet for the fourth year now. And its always great to be in Vasteras, nice people, nice weather and its a great festival, we toke the cruise also, we drove the city ring for 5 or 6 hours…but we had a lot of fun…
maybe till next year!!
Sure! I’ll be there and it is close to where I work during July next year.