Hot Rods Early Clubs - Fullerton California

Many moons back I was on the forum, gone and lost my old id and log in. So a new one here.
Thought some one(s) might enjoy early pics from the pre-war Fullerton Ca hot-rods. My Dad and his younger brother Wayne McNames ran dry lakes pre-war and just after. Dad started a speed shop in 1947, C&M Auto Supply in Fullerton. Here is a picture of my Uncle Wayne in his second street rod just in late 1941. Unc like my Dad went to Fullerton HS where the Knights started and Wayne was one of the guys that pulled from the Knights to form the California Roaster Club. You can see Unc's roadster was well teenage engineering. The pic of the soldier standing next to the roadster is my Dad and his B powered roadster. The last pick is of 255 running the dry lakes. Like them I was born in and grew up in Fullerton but being the 1950's started in gokart racing 1957 at 5 years old in the pee-wee cl***.

BTW all three of those roadster exist today ! ! !

Dan McN

 

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Where was C&M located, I can't remember them.

 

Show us the current pics of the roadsters too. Are they still in the family?

 

On Orangethrope maybe ?

 

Good guess, or maybe Euclid, Raymond, or even Harbor. Remember it was way back.

 

C&M was on Spadra south of Commonwealth. Dad had joined the Fullerton Police Dept when out of the service. He and a buddy ran the speed shop around their schedules. So Dad was selling speed equipment to the locals and then writing speeding tickets to the same guys gunning around town. Quite the paradox you might say. A good time was had by all I was told. Even wrote speeding tickets to my Uncle, his younger brother. Their parents were quite un-pleased with Uncle Wayne. A popular thing then was racing in reverse through town.

 

Just saying Spadra is now called Harbor Blvd.

 

First I must preface, just turned 73 and am now looking now at my bucket list. Everything has been in storage since 1997, mostly dissembled and I am working out of state at the moment, everything is back home.

I have Dad's roadster. He built that before Mom and Dad were married in 1941. Dad dated Mom in that car. It's been up and down countless times. It had an iron 4 port Riley at the last time. This will be my first project on the bucket list. Needs a bit of work for sure. 255 exists in my vintage tin national park. Worse for wear but someday will come back. Unc's roadster was tore down for parts. But I think all of it is still here. We generally never sold anything all our lives.

We moved from town out to the family ranch in the Santa Ana Canyon, in 1961 where we had lots of land, orange groves and avocado groves. The area is now called by Anaheim Hills, a name I hate. We used to be county territory. Mom said she did not care what we brought home as long as she did not have to look at it. I have stuff that has not moved since 1966 ! !