Oldest active Car Club?

Booz Fighters oh sorry wrong type of club

 

Tri-City Rod & Custom will celebrate the club's 50th anniversary in 2022, we still have one of the original charter members that is still active. HRP

 

Gene occasionally runs at El Mirage so he is a a member of a current SCTA member club. There is at least 6 of the car clubs which are members of the SCTA that are in existence today and formed long before 1948 and are very active today. The one I’m in was formed in 1941 and was not just a racing club. We still have a monthly meeting. As I know 2 other clubs do and were formed in the late 30’s.
The writer was just uninformed and if he reads his thread will see what’s been written.

 

These are clubs that was established in Anderson,S.C. but disbanded long ago. HRP

I think this club was started at Old Boy's High School in the 50's


I have met a couple of the guys that started this club in the 60's

 

Cool man.
I am good friends with the KC members. They got a funny thing, you don't actually join the club, they slip in and put a road ratz decal in your back window.

 

The hilifters Duncan Okla Organized 1954 still an active club. I am the oldested original member

 

I'm the club historian for the Gear Grinders of Bell. The actual date that the club started is unclear but by 1938 there are some records. The Grinders joined the SCTA in April 1940. The SCTA was started by 7 club in November 1937 and two of those club are still active today, the Road Runners (of Huntington Park) and the Sidewinders (of Glendale). By 1938, the SCTA had grown to 28 clubs. The Muroc Timing Association pre-dates the SCTA by over 10 years. The oldest club in my records is the Night Flyers (of Pasadena) which is listed in a Muroc Program of that year.

 

Capt R.: The fact that your club has an historian says a lot in itself.

 

I don't see it as that, I salute all the clubs that have stayed active over the years, it takes dedication and forming friendships that last for decades, this year marks our clubs 50 year anniversary and this month we are trying to locate the past members that moved on to different hobbies to join us in a big anniversary party.

We have the honor of being the oldest hot rod & custom car club in the state, if that's considered a pissing match I can't see it, am I proud of my association with a bunch of friend, you bet, they are like my family. HRP

 

Well said Danny.
It takes a lot of work, dedication, compromise, and the right group of people to allow a club to endure and prosper over many years.
Our club is also celebrating it's 50th anniversary this year. I've been a member for 48 of those year...and 2/3 of our members are 25+ year veterens.
I'm honored and proud to be associated with such fine group of folks, and the life-long friendships we have shared.

 

 The Trompers of eagle rock are still active and date from 1945

 

the devils darlins of sonoma calif have been around since 1948

 

Gene Winfield about 1947.

 

I love this picture ^^^^^^^crappy white paint, balding tires, too short roll bar and a perfect, painted, polished, chrome headered flathead that looks like it just came out of a show car.

 

I know that this is 12 yrs old as a post, what the hey? I’ll post any ol way. So as a group of guys who went out and tested their “Hot Irons, Gow Jobs & 4 Barrellers” The term Hot Rod didn’t come into play until the late 40’s, but a negative connotation was associated with the term. They all were basically working car clubs who volunteered to run the meets previous to the formation of SCTA and some currently still do. Safety was the reason for SCTA’s existence and most clubs that were around before & after went through various phases of membership and club realignment..
I’m glad that Ed Newett who was an original Outrider Member and picked me to be a member back when I was a teenager who had just bought a 34 3W, he asked if my car was steel (it was), he took me in and 41+ years later I’m still in it and fly the plaque , looking forward to our next picnic.
There have been other car clubs mentioned that are from the early years of lakes racing,
Below are a few examples.

 

@Cyclone Kevin

Is red the “official” color of the Milers plaque?

I ask this because I was bequeathed a plaque by an early member, and would like to run it on my coupe as a tribute to him. It is currently unpainted, and I’d thought of painting the inlay black (same as the coupe).

 

My “Milers” plaque is painted Black, I believe most members clubs plaques are the same, that one just happened to be slightly different being in Red and stating El Mirage which was a secondary lake choice at a time when Muroc was a far superior surface.

 

Sorry but some of the members of the San Diego Prowlers were first in the Road Rambers of San Diego which started in 1937.
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1994/sep/29/overdrive/