The coolest hot rod trophy I've ever seen. Wow. My compliments to the creator, and the Helldivers CC for giving it to a hot rodder of their choice.

 I see a cocktail shaker, fuel filter, half a fule pump, wingnut steering, hinge seat, headlight glass for the dome, 3 thermostats, a couple taps and sockets, tail light, and chrome trim

Is this not the coolest car parts art / hot rod trophy you've seen? I've seen similar art sell for thousands. 

A Gull Wing car club has been around since 1961, and just had their 50th anniversary

http://www.gullwinggroup.org/ is their website, and I learned of them at http://driven.urbandaddy.com/2011/06/21/gull-wings-at-golden-gate/

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!!!!

Model A club on a Saturday morning ride

Rengades Car Club scrapbook

a hot rod truck club is forming up, looking for more members, Hot Rod Haulers

http://hotrodhaulers.net/

Car clubs featured on the Ogden's Cigarette cards, 1915

pretty cool that they had different tokens for men and women

  

found http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Automobiles%20--%20Periodicals%22

National car club conventions and meets

June 5-11th, Veteran Motor Car Club of America Petoskey Michigan http://vmcca.org/calendar/calendar.htm

June 16-19th, the Checker car club will meet in Springfield Illinois
http://www.checkertaxistand.com/index.php?option=com_jevents&view=cat&task=cat.listevents&Itemid=32

June 19-25th, Studebaker Drivers Club Invitational Meet, Springfield Missouri http://www.sdcmeet.com/

June 26 - July 1 Kaiser Frazer Owner Club International convention, Rancho Bernardo (San Diego) California http://www.kfclub.com/temp.php

July 5-9th, Pontiac-Oakland Club International, Bowling Green Kentucky http://www.poci.org/POCI_Annual_Convention_Registration.cfm

July 6-9th, Buick Club of America, Danvers Massachusetts http://www.minutemanbuick.citymax.com/buicknationalmeet.html

July 7-10th, International American Motors Owners Association, Sedona Arizona http://amo2011.org

July 11-16th, The Packard Club National Meet, Galena Illinois http://packardclub.org

July 14-16th AMC Rambler Club National Show, Annapolis Maryland http://amcrc.com

July 14-16th, National Chrysler Products Club National Meet, Lahaska Pennsylvania http://www.nationalchryslerproductsclub.com/calendar/calendar.htm

July 18th-22nd, Hudson Essex Terraplane Club National Meet, Oklahoma City OK http://www.hetclub.org

July 25-30th, Corvair Society of America National Convention, Denver Colorado http://rockymountaincorsa.com/denvaireleven.html

July 27-31st, Lincoln and Continental Owners Club Mid-America National Meet, Pontiac Michigan http://lcoc.org/Meets.asp

July 27-31st, Oldsmobile Club of America National Meet, Reno Nevada http://www.oldsclub.org

August 10-14th, Cadillac LaSalle Club Grand National, Columbus Ohio https://www.cadillaclasalleclub.org/calendar

September 18-24th, Antique Automobile Club of America, Cumberland Maryland https://www.cadillaclasalleclub.org/calendar

Heading over to the San Diego Low Rider Car Club Council meeting

It starts at 7pm, the Cabo Wabo Grill http://www.cabowabogrill.com/ 2994 Main St, San Diego get off the I-5 at 28th street exit, or down the I-15 south to where it drops into Logan Heights and get off at Main Street, not 32nd street.

there are 17 car clubs in the Lowrider Car Council and 11 events this summer

April 23rd: Amigos 41st annual Chicano Park car show

May 4th: Lowrider Night -El Cajon summer nights

May 14th Slow Lane Familia 1st annual Picnic @ Dennis Allen Park

May 22nd Viejitos14th Annual Picnic @ Dennis Allen park

May 27th Them Streets Car Show

June 18th Set Free North Park 1st annual car and bike show

July 10th Qualcomm Show Lowrider Fest

August 13th Xavier the X-Man Otay Ranch Blood drive and bone marrow match

September 18th Aztlan 5th Annual Picnic J St

The car clubs in the Lowrider Car Club Council are: Amigos, Aztlan, Bombas, Domestic Rides, Individuals, Klique, Latin Styles, Majestics, New Wave, Oldies, Slow Lane Familia, South Cali, Str8 Clownin, Them Streets, Vargas, and Viejietos Car Clubs along with Twisted Minds Bike Club (pedal bikes)

Hot rodders

photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927

Loco Banditos.. .. know how to make stuff better with lettering and pinstriping (and a little art)

On the lake in '48... awesome color photos of early El Mirage racers

These photos are all from http://www.scta-bni.org/EM_1948_photos.htm where about half of them have captions I'm not interested in, since I won't know the people, and I heard about that page from Dan at http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/02/06/four-links-bonus-edition-vans-trucks-roadsters-retromobile/

For 1947 color photos of lakes bed racing http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/chris-at-speed-seekers-foudn-more-1947.html

A photo with a story,

Go to http://lowtechblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/picture-with-story.html for the whole story, but in a nutshell, Marc found a post card years ago, then met the son of one of the guys in the photo... wow, and it's a great photo!

SD Car Club Council meeting is the first Tuesday of each month