What do you do with old trophies?

[1937hd45]

What do you do with your old car show trophies? Do you keep them on display long after the car is gone? Box them in the attic? They're meaningless to others, just wondering as I look at the dust on some of mine.

[Dynaflash8]

You give them to your local Region or Chapter, then get new plates made for them, and on a given day they use all of their donated trophies at one of their Meet's and same a passle of money.

[1937hd45]

That's a bit drastic, National would think I was ungreatful, I'll just box them.

[R W Burgess]

I don't know about trophies, Bob, but when a certain Director moved out of Virginia, I begged him for everything he couldn't take with him. I especially like the old touring banners from before my time. They will look great on the wall of the garage I'm to build shortly, and the price was right!! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Some of those posters even have names of now famous AACA members before their time "in the spotlight".

You need my address Bob? <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Wayne

[Amphicar BUYER]

I have a few early 60s vintage trophies decorating my garage. The one I have from the one show I put my white Amphi in sits in my office.

[Bhigdog]

When the grand kids come over we get out the .22 and use them for target practice. Let me add, not the AACA or National ones.......Bob.

[Mark Shaw]

Pull the nameplates and put them together in a frame you can hang on your wall (they don't gather dust that way).

Then recycle the trophys at your next club car show.

[Guest Moepar]

Donate them to a fella who does local charity car shows to 'recycle'. He then only has to get someone to 'donate' funds to have new plates made, and that way all proceeds from the three cruise ins he does yearly goes to the charity or needy family the show is supporting. That way the excess is outta my hair & it does someone some good. Besides, there is only so much room I have to 'warehouse' trophies in a 880 square foot house. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

[Guest windjamer]

wife and I go to a show most every week end spring to fall.Wining often they accumelate quickly.After a few years we contacked a guy that runs a race track for kids with mic rods.We boxed up 50 or so and gave them to him to give free to the kids.Also made arangements to donate some to special olempics. Beats the hell out of destroying them. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

[Guest aussie610]

May I speak for the majority here and say... Never had that problem....... ;-(

What can I say i'm jealous

[Shop Rat]

A friend of ours in the Mountain State T Club uses old local tropies to make up new ones for their annual Christmas dinner. Fun trophies for things like the Hard Luck Award, Harper Luck Award (John Harper is another friend that won the other one so many times they gave him is own trophy <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />), etc. Everyone looks forward to the special trophies but prays they are not the ones getting one. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Some people have made up albums of photos of the trophies with the car(s) that won them. They take up a lot less space but the memories are still where you can show them off.

[ex98thdrill]

I think what is worse when you see that one guy at the flea market during Hershey who sells old AACA trophies. I don't remember his name, but he's usually set up in the red field a couple of rows in from where the bridge crosses over to the Giant Center.

What we do when we win a trophy is take a marker and write on the bottom of it the car that won it.

Of all the trophies we've won, I'd still say that the nicest of them all was the old style First Grand National Awards. They are without a doubt one of the nicest trophies ever made, but unfortunately, they priced themselves out of existence. Aside from that, I feel that the badge on the front of the car is nicer than all the trophies put together.

I wish more of the local shows did a plaque system like AACA does with the Preservation Awards and Judging Program. I think it is just as nice and more sensible to have one plaque with a series of small tabs on it than it is to have 25 trophies. Plus the plaques can be stored easier and not eat up as much space.

The Wayne Drumlins Region gives out plaques at their annual show. The main part of the plaque is nothing more than their dash plaque (which usually pictures one of their member's cars) with one tab showing the award (1st place, best of show, National Winner, etc.) and the second tab with the sponsor's name.

[yirgaman]

a long time ago when I was younger and dumber - I used to drag race my

'61 MGA in "M"stock at a drag strip. Won several trophies until I was beat

by a guy with a '49 Olds in the same class. he went on to the NHRA

Nationals and bolted his trophy heads onto his Olds as a racing stripe.

He was disqualified for having "illegal ballast". I still have my old

trophies - I think they will go into the garage now.

Larry

[Guest windjamer]

Nice rides. You must admid the best throphy of all is the smile and thumbs up you get when you drive it down the road. Dick. Hope to see you in Binghamton. Ny. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[mrpushbutton]

I used to hang out with a guy who made trophies. We liked going to detroit dragway (SUNDAY!,SUNDAY!,SUNDAY! at DETROIT DRAGWAY--FUEL BURNING FUNNY CARS!--TOP RAIL DRAGSTERS!!!)

he used to take a bunch of trophies that were in process (karate, 4-H, softball, bowling leagues) unscrew the karate kid, cow, softball player, bowler etc., go to the stock room, get some car figures, screw them on, put the trophies into bags (like brown paper grocery bags), put them in the back seat of his car, then we would go to the races. When we got to the gate he would pull up to the guy in the nail apron collceting money and say "I'm here with the trophies", we would get waived in.

[TG57Roadmaster]

A few years back, the local college was on a "spring-cleaning jag," and pitched more than 100 old trophies. Riding down the road that sunny day, I made a U-ey and grabbed all I could; they were in big trash cans, on the curb, literally lining the street. These weren't just any old ersatz plastiche/fiberboard crap, there were several old ones from the early '60's, real metal, marble and hardwoods.

I felt sorry for the folks who'd won them, mostly Ladies' Golf, Tennis, some Men's Basketball, and more than a few Statewide Championships of solid walnut. I've been parceling them out to charitable groups since then; like what's mentioned above, a $4 brass plaque and a little elbow grease makes 'em look like new. Change the toppers, <span style="font-style: italic">et voila</span>, you've got something to really be proud of.

My '71 Swinger, "Goldie," never glittered so as on that day when she performed "curb service," loaded to the gills with all that history.

TG

[The Old Guy]

I had quite a few trophis left over from my drag racing days, and I gave them out for Halloween to the kids that wanted them instead of candy. ( This was back before thecrazies ruined Halloween with the razor blades in food) I then gave the rest to a friend that was involved in Boy Scouting, and they relabelled them and gave them out .