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Eastern Etching, Foot of Grape St. Chicopee Mass. is still in business according to Ed Minnie whose family is friends of these people. I will explore some prices from them, or any other companies that I can find. I too am somewhat separated from the plaque business. The Glens Falls/Lake George meet plaque indeed was very pretty, and I think Tom Lutz handled that acquisition. This whole discussion is not an earth shattering subject for the Pierce club, just an attempt to retain what use to be a very nice momento for our always great meets.

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Paul: I guess I had really forgotten the reason for the rule being repealed. Surprisingly, I sponsored the winter meet in Florida, that year at my club. The reasons make sense, and others may chose to chime in on that portion of the discussion. However, the abandonment of quality multi color brass plaques is something that we should do, and in regard to that point, I think we should rule that some basic plaque standards are reinstated and insisted upon.

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Is this the Bob Mehl car that burned in Buffalo?

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Paul: A couple of summer meetings ago, I remarked that this mandate had been abandoned. i.e that the Weis trophy winner car would appear on the meet plaque the following year. Charley Gils related that the board had repealed this motion a couple of years past. Charley is pretty astute as to what is going on, I don’t know.

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Bob: You are absolutely correct. The board did pass a rule about the previous year’s Weis award being on the following year’s meet plaque. When I mentioned that to the board a couple of year’s ago, someone said, no we repealed that a couple of years ago! Be that as it may, the need for a memorable plaque, not an aluminum Cracker Jack type, should be made a perpetual phenomenon.

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Years ago, I had a Pierce bike with wooden wheels. At that time, an older gentlemen in west Virginia, Virginia, I don’t recall made tires for these bikes. In my conversation with him, he made some recollections. He said that his parents moved to Jacksonville Florida after WWII. While visiting them shortly after the war, he was touring a junkyard in that area. He remarked that he saw the most unusual Pierce-Arrow. He said this Pierce-Arrow in the junkyard had the spare tires in the front fenders. He seemed too old, and too genuine to be putting me on. Perhaps someone else can relate to this rumor of a junkyard Silver Arrow in Florida.

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Could this be the Johnson car from the Treasure Coast here in Florida? The colors look right. I see Ed is not a member now. If in fact it is that car, there were some engine issues I believe.

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last one. These days, this type of plaque is probably 5 or 6 dollars. Based on the number of cars at meets, it would be an insignificant portion of a meet budget.

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Liz asked mse to post some pictures of what the nice old meet plaques were like. Bob Sands sent some pictures this am. I will try to post some. Solid brass, beautiful baked enamel finishes

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A long time ago, past president and chief judge Leo Parnagian told me that ground fish scales were used as the first metallic.

What I have found for top color, is to use Hartz cloth, but to pipe the top with skived leather close to the color of the car. Both my ’36 and former ’31 were done this way. It looks very pretty, and eliminates (in my opinion) the ordinary look of binding/piping done with the same material as the top.

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Great company. The food was very good and priced reasonably.

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I don’t remember receiving one of these, or ever seeing one. It could have been given out at one of the meets that I did not attend, but it seems that I would have recalled that.

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I will take one of the time spots that are not filled when I get to Hershey on Tuesday. For the rest of you, come on and respond to David. This fellow does more for the club than probably any other person. This work is for the club and museum and not for him. Let’s see some responses here.

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the 1930 and 1931 are the totally round ones, not the ones that are flat on top and bottom as on my ’36, right Eddie?

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That is very reasonable. I wish I still had my ’31 so I could buy an extra set.

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How much are they Paul?

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What about a truck radiator or chassis or something?

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My ’31 model 42 had painted shutters, in-op when I bought the car. I pulled the radiator out to go through it, and had the shutters plated, and made to work. The difference in appearance of the car with closed, plated shutters is amazing. It is the most beautiful sight! Plate them!-

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These people have some great stuff, especially the Owen-Dyneto regulator replacement. Not a price on anything, though, anywhere.

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