Here are a couple of more plaque photos I received for our website. This one was found at a swap meet and the buyer wanted info about this East Los Angeles club ..... Another photo I received was for the Rakes from Far ELA. I started a separate thread (Rakes - Far ELA) to see if anyone could provide info about this club. I included the response I got when I asked what Far E.L.A. meant. Since there were no posts on that thread, I thought I'd try here to see if anyone knows anything about either of these ELA clubs.
Here's my first attempt at casting a plaque. I made the pattern at home out of balsa, and then took it to school and made a sand mold in shop class. It didn't turn out to got because the sand kept wanting to stick to the pattern as I didn't put enough draft into it... So instead of taking it apart and filing each piece, I'm having one of the kids in the computer drafting class to make a plastic pattern on the rapid prototype machine. It'll be a good clean cast then!!! My shop teach also suggested I get a copy of the CAD file and take it to a shop that does CNC parts and have a steel mold made so I can cast perfect plaques again and again.
fory, I think I actually like how imperfect your hand carved plaque came out as opposed to something CNC perfect. Takes the soul out of it.
Our club grinders in adelaide south Australia same as your grinders milwalkie but has lightning bolts instead of milwalkie under the roadster
I gotta tell you guys how lucky you are to have schools with such awesome machinery and classes, i doubt i would have dropped outta school if i had such toys to play with. Pretty cool 1st attempt anyway.
Fantastic website! I bet I've spent 100's of hours in the last few years combing through all the locations & various designs.
Did some research and got this information from Gil Coraine (former announcer at New England Dragway and old time rodder): That plaque was indeed of the Pipers Club from Marblehead, a town that ALWAYS lost Thanksgiving high school fotball games to Swampscott. The Peace Pipes of Swampscott was started in 1959-1960 by me, Arthur "Mouse" Sellars, Lee Goodwin, Paul Ryan, Paul Downing, Paul Pronco, Bob Ellison, Bob Pierro and a few others. The Pipers probably started a few years earlier. Two Pipers members I remember were Bill Doane and Paul "Motor" Burns. Motor still operates a restoration shop in Marblehead called "Motors". Those two and a few others ran a sharp AA/FD called The Spirit of 76. Us Peace Pipes guys were the "kids" of the north shore hot rod clubs. Everyone else was one to three years older than us, which was a lifetime when you're a teenager. The other notable clubs trom then and there included the Knight Riders of Peabody (Jim O'Brien., Ray Snell, Smiley Smullen, etc), the Hi-Winders of Salem/Lynn (Jack Doyle, Sonny Joe Mazza, Dick Roach, etc). The Peace Pipes, Knight Riders, Hi-Winders were part of the New England Hot Rod Council and very involved in operating the drags at Sanford airport the second and fourth Sundays each month. Man, those were great times. I have the original Peace Pipes pattern (it was made by Speed Gems) but I don't have the Pipers.) Dennis
Here is one that my dad was a member of in the early 1950's....a small group of about 8 members in even a smaller town in Texas.
According to Google Maps ..... Poth is a town in Wilson County, Texas, located Southeast of the city of San Antonio. The population was 1,850 at the 2000 census. It is interesting that such a small town had two clubs. Maybe they were at different times. Did you know there was also a Road Saints club in San Antonio ..... although I like your dad's plaque better.
Does anyone have a photo or a car club plaque of the Revmasters out of Linden, N. J. for sale or for copying. Thank you.
Not sure about Linden, but Dennis O'Brien has a pattern for this Revmasters plaque from Union County and Linden is in Union County .....
Here is a Hot Heads Culver City Plaque ........ I am a member of the Hot Heads of Culver City and I am looking for one of this style of our club Plaque .
Looked over a ton of plaques on this thread. Was wondering if there are any places in California that would make the scraper plates/plaques? Im located in the Watsonville/Santa Cruz area. Thanks in advance for any info/leads Javier
The photo I have of that plaque on our website was taken by me at our Run to the Sun car show here in Lake Havasu City in 2001. I had to ask what LCRC stood for and the owner said Lancaster Coupe & Roadster Club. I've seen the (red) car at some of our shows since then but don't know who the owner is.
Very Good .... Thanks you. Just piced the Plaque up at a Swap Meet in Long Beach & wondered of Age & Meaning.
Al, my name is Rick Smith a.k.a. "Haleiwa Slim". I too am very interested in the Vulcans car club because of the 32 Victoria dragster that they built and the recent replica of it. I live on the North Shore and I have NEVER seen a more cooler hot rod than that insane 32 ! I wanna find out if it's going to be entered in any up coming events in L.A around Thanksgiving. I would love to see this car race on the 1/4 mile.
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