Here are some photos from the first day at the SOS show as well as late night parties...

After Hotel Security giving us numerous warnings for loud and obnoxious partying and Matt trying to bribe the guard with Larry's hard earned money, Erik and I are back in our room.

Some REALLY serious helmet action going on today. Larry brought helmets with net value in excess of most GNP for many 3rd world nations.

First photo showing The Ruptured Duck's stand.

Erik and Bill Shea swapping war stories.

Helmets, helmets and more helmets.....

Of course the helmets were also invited to the party.....

Me and Tom Kibler handling helmets at Bob's stand at the show.

Erik giving Matt some good points.....

Guys. Please feel free to add. I know there were more cameras there than mine.

Cheers, more to come.
Stephan

Great pics Stephan .It looks like there are /was a lot of lids at the show this time around .I take they all get sold under the table over the table and pre show pretty swiftly .Rob

Great pictures Stephan - to those of us unable to make it - it is great to get a visual sense of what was missed.

Cheers,

Asper

DAY 2

Here's our one of our forum moderators, Larry Marcella, with one of thee most impressive "helmets for sale" booths at the show.

Hey look, even The History Channel's "Mail Call", R. Lee Ermey was there signing autographs.

Kibler bought yet another perfect DD Wehr at "The Helmet Doctor's" table.

Is this Sting? Fooled ya! No it's Erich Wahl! Met both him and his dad and I have to say I'm happy to have both met them and share a last name with them, if only Wahl being my "tribute on-line handle". Great people!

At 70KB, I think we are each assigned one pixel per face in this group photo. If you use your imaginaion, you can certainly tell who is there though.

A few drinks after the show.

Really want to be "there" with you guys.
Small pics but some familiar faces.
More pics please.........
And a happy hunting.

Erik are there any Norwegian colaborators!!??

Heer's that minty NS

The other side

And here's the best buy I had, a sweet M40 SD SS. Needless to say I was very pleased..... until Bob pryed it from my hands...

Sure wish I could have been there again this year. Although I am not in a position to buy anything at the moment it would have been nice to see everyone again and to meet some new faces...like Stephan, etc.

I may be out of the loop here but is Larry M. selling all his helmets??

Cheers,

Great pics!

PVON

Darryl, I heard from someone who heard from someone who...that Larrry M is selling his helmets to buy a muscle car!

Larry is selling his helmets.

Hi guys,
I did sell my helmets in a record time. I have one left. I figure it will be the start of the next collection if there ever is one.
Larry

Show us your new wheels Larry!!!!

Erik

Show us the one you kept, Larry.

Cheers,

I am NOT a helmet collector...but thank you for the wonderful pictures anyways...One of those day though...I am going to get a real good one...and make a beer bong...what sweet a drink it will be. Will have to use chewing gum to plug the air vents...Should I leave the liner in there for flavor? your NOT A Helmet collector is...Roland.

Darryl,

It is in plain sight.

Larry

I was going to say that I do not remember seeing that camo on your table or on the now famous beds...

Erik

Thanks for the warm thoughts Darryl. I was a little disappointed when I found out you were Absent Without Leave from the SOS. We'd have a couple topics of interest to discuse. I'll be there again next year so we can save it for then.

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Originally posted by darryl:
Sure wish I could have been there again this year. Although I am not in a position to buy anything at the moment it would have been nice to see everyone again and to meet some new faces...like Stephan, etc.

I may be out of the loop here but is Larry M. selling all his helmets??

Cheers,

another missed SOS....well an ocean in between does create some trouble
just curious.. who is the helmet'doctor?
ciao mario

The helmet doctor is Dr. Wiseman out of Tennessee..He is a gastroenterologist out of Knoxville I believe. He is a super nice guy and had lots of nice helmets that disappeared before they hit the table. A couple of Russian guys behind me bought a camo paratrooper helmet for 8000 bucks in the first 20 seconds. He did have some duds on his table..A couple of SS helmets I thought were decent didn't pass the experts' opinions. I guess at one time, Doctor Wiseman had around 2200 helmets. He is thinning out his collection to around 300 is what he said. I don't have a clue where someone would put 2200 helmets, but his father in law said that most were stacked 3 high...yikes!!!!

2000 LIDS....WOW thanks for the info
ciao Mario