Despite the Hollywood B-movie myth about 50s car clubs being chock full of antisocial misfits the reality was far different.Here's a look at a small town club in the 50s... http://www.mystarcollectorcar.com/2...s-hot-rod-clubs-legacy-will-live-forever.html
Thats probably so true! But the misfits usually make for a better story. Kinda like movies are not made about bankers! Movies are made about bank robbers!
I'll take the blue channelled '32 5w or the gold '32 roadster or both! Thanks for posting Awesome pics.
Wow! This sure takes me back! I remember very vividly on graduation night 1960 pulling off the road , removing my suit oat and changing a tire for a gal with a flat! Glad to see my northern cousins featured in story, it was true throughout small town north america!
Awesome history, thanx for sharing. I truly enjoyed it, that was my hayday of rodding and rocking. My avatar is me at the drags in 1956 at age 13 with my 33 Chevy. Mucho gracious! ~sololobo~
Cool to see some (very) local history on the HAMB. Some of those original Igniters are still rodding around town today and it's not uncommon to see a ride or two still rocking the plaque. Love that gold roadster with the double-sided white wall tires and cheater slicks!! Thanks a lot for posting!
In the 50's and early 60's most of the young guys that were interested in cars and hot rods didn't have much money and not a broad base of expertise. Many has one or two areas they were pretty good in, welding, electrical, body work, etc. When you put a small group together that was willing to get dirty and make something happen you could accomplish a lot. Small local area car clubs were formed so that the members could access to people that would help them with their project or as a group build a hot rod they could race at the local track. Helping and teaching friends and members how to do something on their hot rod is what it was all about. Wish those days and at***ude was still here today. I could easily live in the '50 again and enjoy it.
Great pictures. The red 5w only proves to me again that highboy coupes need fenders and roadsters don't!
still happens all the time, there are hundreds of clubs out there, both good and bad neat story, not sure how a small town canadian car club writes the "real story" for all car clubs but it's your story i'll let you tell it
I'm liking the two (or is it one?) '28-'29 roadster pickups. Great piece! I'm thinking someone (I dunno--Rik Hoving maybe?) should somehow arrange to have all those little photos scanned really, really big. Just a thought.
These quotes from the site sum up what hot rodding is all about really well: "Sure they wanted to blow the doors off each other on the street, but they were not afraid to even the compe***ion with a helping hand for a brother car guy." "Participants had an unwritten code that became a written code within the rules of membership in a 50s car club. You see a guy on the side of a road and you stop to lend him a helping hand-it was even stamped on their membership cards; "You have been ***isted by (insert name here) car club". Ironically,it is doubtful that such a rule even had to be written into the club rules because most car guys were more than willing to lend a hand. It was in their nature."
It may sound stupid, but I sorely miss a time I was just a little bit too young to have lived through, every day of my life. I just get this general impression that life in the world today ****s compared to those times. Threads like this just reinforces the belief. Paul
WOW!!! that brings back memories of the early 60's. I belonged to the Continental Customs in Yalesville , Conn and we had a great time. Did a lot of PR work.....were safety men for the local 1/4 midget races for kids and learned volumes of info about cars I rebuilt my first flathead at age 16 and treasure the memories. Thanks for the memories........
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