While at the Spokane Auto Boat Speed show I was rifeling through Marcy's stuff in her booth and noticed she had a few club plaques. When I got to this one I nearly fell over...I recognized it instantly. My friend Bob "Oldebob" has one on the front of his *****in T roadster. It is a "Spokane Roadster Racing ***ociation" plaque. Bob only knows of two...his and another guy in town Gary Harms. According to Bob, this club was formed in the late 40's/early 50's and participated at Bonneville 1951 and many other events. Bob also said there was only like 12 members or so. To me this is a priceless piece of Spokane hot rod history. The only mystery is, were did it come from? It looks to be a recast, but who else has another and were? Thank you Marcy for making me a killer deal on it, this is super special to me and I owe ya (even more) Good thing I have a roadster to run it on, and if Bob is up to it I wanna get the SRRA up and going again!!
Don't you love it, when the planets align and all ends up where it belongs! That plaque couldn't have found a better home than with your roadster.
I'm almost certain I have one, laying around the garage as well, so that means there's roughly 8 more to find. I was thinking about running it on the roadster, but I never knew the history behind the plaque. Thanks for the very cool history lesson and congrats on the awesome score.
Chris, I'm wondering if Jack Henderson, the man who original built my dad's purple roadster knows anything about the old club? Jack, built the roadster back in '57 in Spokane, and heavily drag raced it through out the northwest until around '59. Another person who might remember the old club is Dusty Rhodes, he's the one who showed that *****in' old chopped Merc with Thee Emperors' last weekend. He has a northwest racing background, and he was one of the founders the old Deer Park Dragstrip back in the fifities.
Been off the computer for a few days. Gary Harms has one on his A roadster and a guy from Wenatchee with a 32 has a SRRA plaque in his collection. With the one Billy came up with that makes that makes makes 5 accounted for. Ironically every one who has one owns a roadster.
That's cool, I did some other online searching about the Spokane Roadster Racing ***ociation. This old newspaper article from 1950 came up "HOT-ROD DRIVER CLOCKED at 108.2". It has some interesting info, also the name of the driver and others. I figured I'd add the link to this thread- http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GS5WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ruUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3720,445486
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