The Model T Ford Club of Southern California
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2025 5:02 am
The Danish Veteran Car Club runs the Danish Motorhistoric library and archive and from them I have been given a stack of leaflets and newsletters of "The Model T Ford Club of Southern California" from 1964-65.
At first I was a little reluctant, but what the heck - Always fun to browse through old club artifacts until I spottet a name: Bruce McAlley! One of the later founders of M*TFCA. MTFCA was formed in 1965 so these artifacts are pre-MTFCA.
Now I could expect the old Model T Ford Club of Southern California was still around and one of the chapters in MTFCA, but that does not seems to be the case.
Clubs comes and goes as a fact of life, so is The Model T Ford Club of Southern California just closed at some time or fusioned with another with another name for the combined club or has it just changed name?
Regarding the artifacts - I do probably not want to keep the stack. I have offered them to the museum, but they clain they already had them.
At first I was a little reluctant, but what the heck - Always fun to browse through old club artifacts until I spottet a name: Bruce McAlley! One of the later founders of M*TFCA. MTFCA was formed in 1965 so these artifacts are pre-MTFCA.
Now I could expect the old Model T Ford Club of Southern California was still around and one of the chapters in MTFCA, but that does not seems to be the case.
Clubs comes and goes as a fact of life, so is The Model T Ford Club of Southern California just closed at some time or fusioned with another with another name for the combined club or has it just changed name?
Regarding the artifacts - I do probably not want to keep the stack. I have offered them to the museum, but they clain they already had them.