Tin Sign Info

I was looking for tin sign to write about when I can across this one. I have always loved the old cars. We use to go watch street races when My husband and I first meet. Those were the old days according to our kids. I stared looking around on the Internet to see if there was a company called Deuces Speed Shop. Well I came up with a company called Six Deuces Speed Shop.  Here’s some info for you.

Six Deuces is currently made up of a three man team. Owner/ operator Corry Hunter opened the shop in the fall of 2007 at a young age or 22. Now 24 he’s determined to make Six Deuces one of the dominant shops on the east coast. Helping him do that is  Matt Piccolo and Gary Hunter. These two guys have been in the game a long time and know what it takes to build  a killer car. Each one brings  their own unique style and talent making Six Deuces the place to go for your hot rod and custom needs.

Well here’s a auto tin sign for any man cave or woman cave you would like.

With Father’s Day around the Conor I have been looking for a gift for my husband, and then I found this authentic reproduction Chrysler Plymouth tin sign for his man cave. Our son and him spend a lot of time there.

The Plymouth automobile was introduced on July 7, 1928. It was the Chrysler Corporation’s first entry in the low-priced field, which at the time was dominated by Chevrolet and Ford. Plymouths were actually priced a little higher than the competition, but they offered standard features such as internal expanding hydraulic brakes that the competition did not provide. Plymouths were originally sold exclusively through Chrysler dealerships. The logo featured a rear view of the Mayflower ship which landed at Plymouth Rock. However, the Plymouth brand name came from Plymouth Binder Twine, chosen by Joe Frazer for its popularity among farmers.

The origins of the first Plymouth can be traced back to the Maxwell automobile. When Walter P. Chrysler took over control of the trouble-ridden Maxwell-Chalmers car company in the early 1920s, he inherited the Maxwell as part of the package. After he used the company’s facilities to help create and launch the Chrysler car in 1924, he decided to create a lower-priced companion car. So for 1926 the Maxwell was reworked and re-badged as the low-end Chrysler “52″ model. In 1928, the “52″ was once again redesigned to create the Chrysler-Plymouth Model Q. The “Chrysler” portion of the nameplate was dropped with the introduction of the Plymouth Model U in 1929.

HME can trace its heritage back to 1913, over 95 years ago, when Magnus Hendrickson founded the Hendrickson Motor Truck Company in Chicago. Quite an innovator in his day, Hendrickson began building custom trucks including those for specialized applications such as heavy delivery, stone cranes, roofer’s hoists and scavenger bodies.

It was Hendrickson that developed and marketed the first tandem axle suspension, quite an innovation in its day, and was one of the first truck manufacturers to install Diesel engines. The company built its first line of fire apparatus in the 1930s, and was the first to develop and market the first tilt cab custom pumper chassis in the 1980s.

Hendrickson Motor Truck Company changed its name over time to Hendrickson Mobile Equipment to better reflect the diversity of products being produced. Over the road trucks, crane carriers, split shaft power take offs, cast spoke wheels, tandem suspensions and specialized prime movers such as a mammoth rig that was built to transport 500,000-lb. transformers to a Canadian hydroelectric plant, proved over and over, the engineering and manufacturing expertise of HME. In 1980, HME was the first to introduce a cab over tilt cab to the fire market in a custom design. Further enhancing maneuverability HME led the industry with the introduction of a standard 45-degree front axle cramp angle.

Today, HME is located in Wyoming, Michigan with over 140 employees working in a modern five-year old, state of the art, 150,000 square foot plant, producing fire apparatus, over-the-road Class 8 truck chassis and special mobile equipment units such as drill rig chassis and heavy-duty prime movers. The vehicles begin with the frame rails entering one side of the plant, and the finished units emerging from the other. This “under one roof” facility brings together the chassis, systems, pump and body engineering to produce rigs that are truly single-source from start to finish.

The company is the world’s largest single-source producer of custom, stainless steel fire apparatus, introduced a number of new products.

Drawing from its heritage of the innovative and legendary Ahrens-Fox line of apparatus, the RAT™, or Rapid Attack Truck, combines a fully rated Class A pumper engineered into the size of a mini pumper without sacrificing water, hose or equipment carrying capacity. The CAT™ or City Attack Truck is a custom engineered solution, perfect for departments with high call volumes that need a unit having heavy duty pumping power, easy service accessibility, replacement of corrosion-prone components such as aluminum tread plate, and user-friendly design elements such as an extremely low rear hose bed. The CAT™ provides an abundance of compartment space for storing EMS and firefighting equipment and is mounted on an HME custom chassis designed to be more maneuverable than the chief’s Crown Victoria.

The new Arsenal™ aerial was designed to outmaneuver a single axle quint, provide 600-gallon water tanks and to carry a full load of ISO required ladders, pike poles and equipment. New products on the mechanical side include Hydra-Technology™ water delivery system that uses stainless steel plumbing with ‘vic’ fittings and the new MAD DOG™, patent pending compressed air foam system that combines a high level of knockdown power with an affordable price.

A world leader in fire service innovation, American owned HME is one of the fastest growing custom builders today, constructing a diverse line of innovative, heavy duty stainless steel fire apparatus that is setting the industry standard for design, performance and long life.

This international fire truck chasis tin sign makes a great gift for anyone.

Mel’s Drive-In (not to be confused with Mel’s Diner) is the name of a restaurant chain founded in 1947 by Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs in San Francisco, California.

In October 1963, the Mel’s Drive in chain was picketed and subjected to a sit-in by the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination over the fact that while the restaurant would serve food to African Americans and hired them as cooks, Blacks were not allowed to work “up front” where they could be seen by White customers. More than 100 protesters were arrested. The picketing ended when Harold Dobbs, a San Francisco City Supervisor who had run for Mayor and lost, settled with the protestors and began to allow Black workers “up front.”

Mel’s was used as a location in the 1967 film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are out for a drive and Tracy pulls into Mel’s and orders Oregon Boysenberry ice cream, then has a minor traffic altercation with an African-American man. The Mel’s was located in the Excelsior district of San Francisco. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy never actually visited the location.

In 1972, the restaurant was selected as a feature location by George Lucas for his 1973 film American Graffiti. The prominent play given to the location has been credited with saving the company from possibly going out of business. The Mel’s used was located at 140 South Van Ness in San Francisco.

Mel’s restaurants have since been featured in other media such as Melrose Place (1996, Season 5, episode 1), Doonesbury comics (December 18, 1989), and the book The American Drive-in by Mike Witzel.

Some Mel’s Drive-In locations are not actually drive-ins, but rather diners, although the sign still says “drive-in”; none of the San Francisco locations serve food to patrons’ cars.
Universal Studios built a replica of “Mel’s Drive-In” on its lot, pursuant to the restaurant being used in American Graffiti — this must-see amusement attraction also served as a gift shop for years. There are also a number of “Mel’s” located in Northern California that share the same general American Graffiti/nostalgia theme and the similarly styled Mel’s logo. These restaurants are called “Mel’s Original.” Their locations are not listed on the official Mel’s Drive-In website, although an article from the Sacramento Business Journal shows that they are related. A family rift caused the Weisses to part ways and form two chains. The elder Weiss in 1994 sold his company to Larry Spergel, who formed a group of about 50 stockholders that now owns the chain. The Walnut Creek, California location features a history of the original San Francisco Mel’s.

This car hop tin sign makes a great gift. Like I have said before it’s blast from the past.

Steven Weiss and partner Donald Wagstaff opened the first of the “Next Generation” Mel’s Drive-ins in September of 1985. The restaurant, located at 2165 Lombard Street in San Francisco, appealed to families wanting to share the tastes, sights, and sounds of the 1950s drive-in era with their children. A little over two years later, a second location was established on Geary Boulevard, also in San Francisco. The next two restaurants opened in Los Angeles, one in Sherman Oaks and the other in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip. Van Ness Avenue is home to the third San Francisco location, and the fourth opened its doors in November of 2000 next to the Sony Metreon Center in the Yerba Buena area. In the heart of Hollywood on the famous Hollywood Boulevard our fifth location was opened with a full-service Celebrity Bar. The most recent addition to the Mel’s family is the Rancho Cucamonga location located near Ontario Mills on the border of Rancho Cucamonga and Ontario.
 

This authenic reproduction tin sign makes a great gift. It’s like a blast from the past.

Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV) (formerly International Harvester Company) is a U.S. manufacturer of International brand commercial trucks, MaxxForce brand diesel engines, IC Bus school and commercial buses, Workhorse brand chassis for motor homes and step vans, and is a private label designer and manufacturer of diesel engines for the pickup truck, van and SUV markets. The company is also a provider of truck and diesel engine parts and service.

The company’s products, parts, and services are sold through a network of nearly 1,000 dealer outlets in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico and more than 60 dealers in 90 countries throughout the world. The company also provides financing for its customers and distributors principally through its wholly owned subsidiary, Navistar Financial Corporation.

This International truck logo tin sign makes a great gift.

Chrysler Group LLC is a U.S. automobile manufacturer headquartered in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Michigan. Chrysler was first organized as the Chrysler Corporation in 1925. From 1998 to 2007, Chrysler and its subsidiaries were part of the German based DaimlerChrysler AG (now Daimler AG). Prior to 1998, Chrysler Corporation traded under the “C” symbol on the New York Stock Exchange. Under DaimlerChrysler, the company was named “DaimlerChrysler Motors Company LLC”, with its U.S. operations generally referred to as the “Chrysler Group”. On May 14, 2007, DaimlerChrysler announced the sale of 80.1% of Chrysler Group to American private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., although Daimler continued to hold a 19.9% stake. This was when the company took on the name, Chrysler LLC. The deal was finalized on August 3, 2007. On April 27, 2009, Daimler AG signed a binding agreement to give up its 19.9% remaining stake in Chrysler LLC to Cerberus Capital Management and pay as much as $600 million into the automaker’s pension fund.

On April 30, 2009, Chrysler LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced a plan for a partnership with Italian automaker Fiat. On June 1, Chrysler LLC stated they were selling some assets and operations to the newly formed company Chrysler Group LLC. Fiat will hold a 20% stake in the new company, with an option to increase this to 35%, and eventually to 51% if it meets financial and developmental goals for the company.

On June 10, 2009, the sale of most of Chrysler assets to “New Chrysler”, formally known as Chrysler Group LLC was completed. The federal government financed the deal with US$6.6 billion in financing, paid to the “Old Chrysler”, formally called Old Carco LLC.  The transfer does not include eight manufacturing locations, nor many parcels of real estate, nor equipment leases. Contracts with 789 U.S. auto dealerships, who are being dropped, were not transferred.

My husband is die hard Mopar man. This auto tin sign would make a great gift for any mopar fan

Motorhead Garage is made up of a group of expert mechanics who are obsessed with motors in ever sense of the word.
We Do it ALL!!!
From the old school hot rods to the bad ass 4 cylinder street racers.
General automotive repairs.
Compter and Electrical Diagnostics.
Tune ups and Maintenance.

We will take on ANY challenge or crazy idea you throw at us!!
We love to build and rebuild, manufacture and fabricate just about anything…
and
we may even throw a few crazy ideas in along the way!!!

This authenic reproduction tin sign makes a great gift.

Marion Lee “Mickey” Thompson (December 7, 1928 - March 16, 1988) was an American off-road racing legend. He won many championships as a racer, and later formed sanctioning bodies SCORE International and Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group (MTEG). He also raced in dragsters and land speed record automobiles.

Thompson was born in Alhambra, California. He was known universally as “Mickey.” In his early twenties, he worked for the Los Angeles Times newspaper while becoming involved in the new sport of drag racing. He developed a brilliant career as both a driver and an innovative automotive technician; later as a designer, manufacturer and seller of racing and performance equipment. In addition to being a drag racing champion, Mickey Thompson set more speed and endurance records than any other man in automotive history. He is credited with designing and building the first slingshot dragster. Thompson also was noted for being the first manager of Lions Drag Strip near Long Beach, California in 1955.

In 1960, at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Thompson achieved international fame when he became the first American to break the 400mph barrier hitting 406.60 mph surpassing John Cobb’s one-way Land speed record of 402mph. In 1963 Thompson traveled to England where, along with Dante Duce, he demonstrated his Top Fuel Harvey Aluminum Special dragster at the Brighton Speed Trials. His Ford-powered dragster was then displayed at the Racing Car Show in London in January 1964.

In 1965 he published “Challenger: Mickey Thompson’s own story of his life of speed.” In 1968, he redesigned the Funny Car, and his vehicle went on to win the 1969 NHRA Spring Nationals and NHRA Nationals for driver Danny Ongais. In his long career, Thompson raced everything from stock cars to off-road vehicles and engineered numerous competition engines. He went into the performance aftermarket business in the early 1960s and then, in 1963 he created “Mickey Thompson Performance Tires” that developed special tires for racing including for Indianapolis 500 competitors.

Thompson founded SCORE International in 1973, a sanctioning body to oversee off-road racing across North America. He and his wife Trudy formed the “Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group” (MTEG) which ran an indoor motocross and off-road vehicle racing show and competition that brought the sport from the back-country terrain to stadiums in the heavily populated metropolitan areas.

This hot rod garage tin sign makes a great gift.

Song by Alan Jackson

Well I’ve been sorta worried
About Santa Claus this year
Cause we live way down south
And it didn’t snow down here
But I’m telling you not to worry
Cause I just got the word
Everybody listen closely
And I’ll tell you what I heard

Santa’s comin in a pickup
Instead of his trusty sleigh
He’ll have a truck instead of reindeer
To carry him on his way
Cause the weatherman had some problems
He couldn’t get snow you see

Santa’s gonna come in a pickup truck
When he visits you and me

Santa can’t bring his reindeer
He’ll leave them far away
But don’t you worry ’bout him
He’s gonna be here Christmas day
He’s got a big red pickup
With four-wheel drive and all
And there’s gonna be a Merry Christmas
A Merry Christmas for all

Santa’s gonna come in a pick up truck
When he visits you and me

Well in 21 days Santa will be comming. It’s still not to late to order your vintage tin sign.