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  1. Bullet Nose
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    Last month I ran across a post in another thread that mentioned the "Car Club Plaque Photos?" thread I started 10 years ago. That got me to thinking it may be time to start a new thread and add the HAMB photos that have since disappeared. In 2008 I had "almost 4,000" photos on the site that has since gone away. Today, the new website I created for these photos has over 9,000 different club plaques shown. According to a couple of experts I know, there were about 30,000 different plaques produced so I'm still looking for those other 20,000.

    My interest in the artwork on these cast plaques, or drag plates as they are called in some areas, began when I retired and moved to Arizona. I found some plaques for clubs I belonged to in the 50's stashed in the bowels of my garage. These are my plaques and the cars they were mounted on .....


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    In 1993 I purchased my Bullet Nose Studebaker and belonged to these clubs .....

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    This is the club I belong to now .....

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    If you have a plaque for a club you once belonged to, or still belong to, post a photo of it here and I'll add it to my site. The URL is .....


    As time permits, I hope to go back through all 40 pages of the old thread and post the photos that were submitted. The first photo posted was from "Canadianzed" .....

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    The original thread had 40 pages and had been viewed 262,968 times.

    Another contributor was "LOWCAB" who sent this photo .....


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    "Alfster" posted these photos .....

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    skirv posted this photo of a plaque he had made for his dad .....

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  5. Bullet Nose
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    This one was designed by G V Gordon .....

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  6. Bullet Nose
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    Posted by skyrodder .....

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  7. Jimbo17
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    I always loved car club plagues and each one has a story to tell.

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    Posted by KustmAce .....

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    Posted by Buford36 .....

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    Posted by deuceroger .....

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  11. Bullet Nose
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    BigKen posted these .....

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  12. Bullet Nose
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    Contributed by happy hoppy .....

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    He also posted this one on another thread .....

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  13. Beau
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    We pour our own.

    The Delinquents C.C. Twin Cities, Minn.

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  14. Bullet Nose
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    They look much better when painted .....

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  15. we did ours in bronze DCFN0006.JPG
     
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    Still going strong!
     

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  20. engineboy
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    My dads old plate I have in my man cave

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  21. zjerry
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    This is my dads old car club 037.jpg
     
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  22. a couple from my collection.. carclub.jpg
     
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  24. My avatar is the local(Erie) breakfast gang!
     
  25. Bullet Nose
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    From Kman1932 .....

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    From our Swedish chapter of the famous Duke's CC.
     
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  27. Bullet Nose
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    Slick50 sent this one .....

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  28. sanfordsotherson
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    from So. Cal.

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    My Dad (Pat Coleman) and his friends started the CAMSHAFTERS in Beaumont, California around '55. Some people see the plaque I put on his old Studebaker, and think it's a car club from (Beaumont) Texas, but it's not. He said he drew the design for the plaque with a 'sketch' of a camshaft. He thought the foundry would redo it, but they cast it just like the drawing. The other guys in the club teased him about the cam only having five lobes. His original plaque burned in a fire in the 60's. I searched the internet for years, trying to find another plaque. He passed away in 2009, and two months later I found two reproduced plaques on Ebay. He's pictured in a newspaper article 3rd from the left. My brother and I would like to find any of the other members pictured in the photo. It was taken in Dec. '56.

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    24103_103140569725367_6641316_n.jpg 25443_106281829411241_6144710_n.jpg my dad with 3 of his innocents Minneapolis car club members
     
  30. Given to me by Ak Miller when I joined in 1960.

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