Hey. Have you ever heard of "The Vampires" club in Spokane? I found some of their plaques. can send pic.
I have a plaque from "The Vampires" Spokane auto club. It doesn't look anything like yours Its 5 x 12. Do you think it could be an associated club?
I picked one up recently that's pretty cool its Satans Hell-Pers E. P. ILL its Dated 1960 on the license plate that's on the hotrod on the plaque ill try and post a pic of it
Here are some new additions to our site, thanks to Buddy Palumbo ..... And, my favorite ..... Thanks Buddy!
Here is the plaque that belonged to Curt Hardy 1961 Best in Show Hartford Autorama The earlier Tappets plaque were hand painted. His father was a sign painter. The roadster image on the plaque is Curts. Chicago Metal Co.
Here is ours. Just got them made up. It lights up at night. I know it's not traditional but they are way cool. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Would love find one of our old plaques,Scavenger CC , Coconut Grove Fla. est. 1957,this is /was a small town now part of Miami I didn't see any in your records. I had a drawing some were,but needs some real looking to find it.
Dennis, how could you tell an original Veeblefetzers from one that you make? Just picked one up at the swap meet and it has no other markings on it. Thanks, Derek
Heres mine, from our Hamb social club, Gold Chainers CC, and three American ones, that a Hamber buddy sent me to hang in my shed.
There was years ago a club, with plaques of course, in Sioux Rapids IA with the somewhat risque name "THE CHERRY PICKERS" Real cool! I sure wish I could find one of those plaques or maybe a club jacket. Greg
Here you go ..... Contact Dennis O'Brien here on the HAMB to get a plaque made from the original pattern.
I'm Winston, the plaque was long gone when I got the car, so I ordered the copies from you. You really made my day, not to mention the tears that they brought on, Thanks Dennis , Winston
Just got my order from obrien truckers....totally stoked with the plaques!... Thanks Dennis! Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Derek, An original should have the Chicago MetalCraft Port Chicago logo on the back, If it's a repop that I made from the original CM pattern, it would have my logo on the back, Dennis
There is some guy selling third ( or or more ) generation repops of repops of the Veeblefetzers plaque on ebay. There are no markings on the back. The quality is horrible, so I know they didn't come from Dennis.
There is also a guy using real club's plaques and grinding off the locations before adding others. As an example, in the late 50's I belonged to a club called the Vampires and we met at my mom & dad's house in Redondo Beach, CA. We had these plaques made and used them until the club disbanded ..... Recently someone sent me a photo of this plaque that was being sold on eBay as an original plaque ..... To me it looked like he took another Vampires plaque and ground off the location before adding So Bay. Dennis has patterns for a couple of Vampires plaques that look just like the So Bay one above, like this example from a Pueblo club. You can be the judge.
Here is the original Veeblefetzers pattern that was amongst the 8,000 patterns I bought from the original pattern maker for Chicago MetalCraft. Dennis
OK, I'm kinda embarassed to admit that I bought one of these cheap knockoffs, but it was priced cheap. Here are the photos of the wreckage. It is thin, and poorly cast. When it arrived, it was still coated in the casting sand. The back is so porous, it looks like styrofoam, with all the little voids. Like I said...no danger mistaking this POS for one of Dennis' awesome castings!
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