Our club plaque... since 1974. Sorry it's not bigger or clearer. It is an old glass top gas pump next to a early Ford panel truck with "Portsmouth Street Rod Association" and "Established 1974" at the bottom. We settled on a panel truck as nobody in the club had one at the time.
Yep, we've done three runs of those Road Burners in 2006, 2009 ans 2013. The reason you don't find it with our search engine is because that only searches thru the 12,000 patterns we have from Speed Gems and Chicago Metal Craft that were made in the 1950/60's. When we acquired those patterns be received no paperwork or information and we will make plaques for people who want us to, that is unless we know that the club is still active or has been reactivated. Here is the link to search the 12,000 traditional patterns by name, city, state or logo. Read the FAQ's and then have fun - and don't blame me because your productivity goes in the crapper The search engine does not search the 3,000+ patterns for the 130,000 plaques that we have made since 1978 because we consider those "current clubs" and do not make/sell them for just anyone that calls - they are reserved for the clubs that had them made. So if you're looking to reorder plaques for your club and you think they may have been made or reproduced in the last 36 years, just give us a call and we can look it up for you. Hope that helps, Dennis O'Brien
Let me apologize ahead of time if someone else has submitted some of these plaques since I did not take the time to read all 38 pages. There are a lot more former clubs from the Wenatchee Washington area that I know had plaques made. There is a another HAMB member from the valley that has all or most of the plaques from the older clubs. Maybe he will see this and be inspired to share some of them with us. Bill if you see this and want to post some let me know I would be happy to help post them. This plaque was just cast by O'Brien Truckers last year. It is a new design that I dreamed up and the finalized artwork was done by Gary Countryman. We are a small but very active club that meets weekly. This one is for a club that was very active until about two years ago. We meet infrequently now but still remain in contact with each other. A more elaborate painting of the same plaque.It now is on display at a local restaurant that caters to the local car enthusiasts. The original WVSR club plaque. Apples are the main crop in our valley and the rod run the club put on each summer for 36 years was called the Apple Run. The plaque was left blank in the middle and each of us could add whatever we wanted to it. Me being a 40 nut I applied one of my favorite emblems. The Wenatchee Valley Cruisers is a very large club in the Valley. It seems like most everyone belongs to this club even though they may belong to smaller clubs also. John and Teresa do a great job of keeping us informed of car events in the area and plan several group trips each year.
Here is our club plaque. We are a very new club, you'll find us on the open road cruising our traditional pre '64 automobiles daily or on long road trips. The experience is what it's about, with people you know and trust as your brothers. No chapters, just the open road. WAYFARERS CC Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
I also didn't read all 38 pages to see if someone else had submitted this one. I hadn't seen it 'till a cruise 2 months ago in Omaha
All four of these plaques plus three more are on the Wenatchee page on my website ..... http://carclubplaques.pairsite.com/Cities/Wenatchee.htm The owner of this apple shaped plaque also was a Ford fan but I'm not sure what his emblem came off of .....
Interesting ..... I looked at the list I keep and saw that the Turds plaque photo was posted on this thread in November of 2011 but it was on Page 39 at that time. Since your post is on Page 37 I wondered if the new and improved HAMB renumbered the pages. I looked at a few other entries on my list and see that at one time there were at least 52 pages on this thread. The other possibility is that some posts have been deleted. Who knows for sure? The Turds plaque is now on Page 26 of this thread and it was posted by sololobo .
I would guess this plaque is Bill Cordell's since the emblem is from a 41 Ford pickup. Bill has been driving the same 39 Ford Pick up virtually unchanged for around 50 years. Seeing how nice this plaque looks it makes me want to clean mine up a little........ Thanks for your work in archiving club plaque history.
i like this thread so much, thanks for that! i hope , someday we over here will have a cast iron club plaque on ourselves, the specialty is we're supposed to be the smallest CC with two members. the well known 'potatoe boys'. and for sure all of our buddies are 'potatoes by honor', it's nearly a dozen. i'll keep watchin', dude!
My best guess is that Saracins was mis-spelled on the plaque. I have a bunch of plaques on my site with Saracens and many were in the So. Calif. area ..... I had to do a Google search to see what a Saracen was and this is what I found on Wikipedia ..... Saracen was a generic term for Muslims widely used among Christian writers in Europe during the later medieval era. The term's meaning evolved during its history. In the early centuries CE, Greek and Latin writings used this term to refer to the people who lived in desert areas in and near the Roman province of Arabia. They were distinguished as a people from others known as Arabs.[1][2] In Europe during the Early Medieval era, the term came to be associated with Arab tribes as well.[3] By the 12th century, "Saracen" had become synonymous with "Muslim" in Medieval Latin literature. Such expansion in the meaning of the term had begun centuries earlier among the Byzantine Romans, as evidenced in documents from the 8th century.[1][4][5] In the Western languages before the 16th century, "Saracen" was commonly used to refer to Muslim Arabs, and the words "Muslim" and "Islam" were generally not used (with a few isolated exceptions).[6] TMI?
Here are the Saracens I have 1950/60 patterns for: 7642 Saracens Carpinteria 22903 Saracens Chula Vista 22895 Saracens Lovelock Nev 7588 Saracens Riverside 2016 Saracens Westchester 8028 Saracens California 22896 Saracens Northern Virginia 8026 Sara-sans Bakersfield I was told that it was also a "street slang" synonymous with "nomad" and I have 76 different Nomad, Nomads, No-Mad patterns.
I found this in a box of junk at the "Big-E" swap a few years ago and bought it for $15. bucks- I thought the coupe on it was cool as hell . Took it home, cleaned it up and did some research on it. Found out it was a club in the Conn./ RI. area. Went on an annual outing the next summer to Portsmouth RI to a car show and threw it into the Sedan. I was introduced to a kid who'd just joined this club and didn't have a plaque- Went back to my car, got the plate, and said" There ya go!" The kid was shell shocked and wanted to pay me for it. Told him not to worry about it; it belonged on a "rod", not in a box of crap.
This Miami Florida,from early late 50s n 1960s,grill/plate an bumper,one bolt on back 8/32 x 3/8in. about centered behind the word SPORTS,5in. long. There a number of guys in this club an Road Rebles, Road Stain's n Rod Bender's,Some of the cut down's were both a hotrod an sports car at the same time.
Someone sent me the photo of this club plaque from Wenatchee (WA?) to add to my website and wondered if anyone had any info about this club .....
I have a Facebook page dedicated to Car Club Plaques. Check it out if you like. I will be going back through this thread and posting some of these pics. Enjoy! https://www.facebook.com/VCCPoftheUSA
Doing some research for a club in Rhode Island called the Gear Grinders. Bullet Nose has a picture of their plaque on his websire http://carclubplaques.pairsite.com/Plaques/Gear-Grinders_Riv.jpg but no one knows where the cast iron plaque was made or who might have an old one to copy. Anyone know of these guys?
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