Outriders, est 1932... wow, that is the earliest car club I've ever heard of, and two cool club plaques

cool Riv!

Want to buy a car club plaque? O'Brien Truckers .com has 12 thousand, and can make new ones

Dennis who left a comment about another car club plaque "Veeblefetzers" said that he bought 8,000 plaque patterns from the original pattern maker for Chicago Metal Craft.  So we can make you as many new, new old stock ones as you'd like. Here's a link to any of the 12,000 plaques we have for reproduction (the other 4,000 are the original patterns from Speed Gems).https://www.obrientruckers.com/ecom/category/235/3/

I just got a email back from Dennis, check out this cool story:
Just last night I got a call from a guy looking to see if I could make a plaque from a photo I had. When I asked for the name of the club you could hear the questioning in his voice like "Why does it matter what the name of the club was?" When I looked it up in my database and described it to him he gasped! And it gets better. He was an original member and knew the guy who had drawn the artwork back in the day. Well I was as excited as him because it turns out this particular plaque, Exterminators So. Cal., was the one that Chicago Metal Craft used in their ads in Hot Rod back in the 50's!!!!

Ever seen a Veeblefetzer car club plaque?

A Veeblefetzer is a purposely nonsensical sounding word applied to any sort of obscure or complicated object

Pit passes are a great way to accentuate the dragsters dashboard

I photographed all these interesting parts of the car at the Beatnik Blowout, but didn't think to get an overall exterior shot so you can see what the car is.

Many car club plaques at the LA Roadster Show

The above looks better painted in colors, so I kept the below for comparison

Must be a reason the numbers are different. The club members get them sequentially?

The above club needs to know where to get real plaques made... so do I, so if you know, drop me a note in the comments or email direct at jbohjkl@yahoo.com if you know a guy or company making them





















I like the black, red and silver one best... great colors that resemble a tach




for the best one I have seen, it's just amazing: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/torquers-of-ocean-beach-hot-rod-club.html

The most interesting signs, awards, and petroliana I found at the Mendenhall Museum in Buellton

The above is the art work of Pete Millar, and is actually an ad for Isky Cams























I've never heard of the Pontiac Trail




I wish I knew the story of how this cop car door left the cop car, and became a wall ornament for it's life after law enforcement

Cool mileage map








Biggest Sun test bench I've seen













a Mickey Thompson timing tag, wow
Amazing, how did any paper souvenirs last?
Awesome that Vice Grip was giving out trophys, and this is the first I've seen
The above roadster was hand carved



all of these are only a small fraction of the cool stuff at the Mendenhall Museum of Petroliana in Buellton Ca, just about 30 minutes North of Santa Barbara http://www.mendenhallmuseum.com