Convention Dash Placard

[c170b53]

Finally got around to looking at my convention booty and I'm wondering does anyone mount the placard on their dash and how or are they collected in a picture frame?

[Bruce Fenstermacher]

When I find the "dash" in my 170 I might attach the convention placards but till then I've resisted attaching them to my instrument panel. My wife instead inserts them in the scrap book she creates of every convention we've attended.

A picture frame sounds nice as well.

[GAHorn]

Dash plaques were all the rage back in the 50's. According to Car Craft magazine, they probably evolved from the timing tags that early clubs like the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) handed out to racers at the dry lakes. These were stamped metal plaques that indicated the car, date, and top speed achieved at a given event. These timing slips were then pop-riveted to the car's dash as proof of the car's top speed.

As cars attended different events they'd acquire additional plaques. The fad was incarnated into luggage stickers, etc., that proclaimed attendance at certain events/locations/etc., and is still sometimes practiced by military and airline pilots who place them on luggage and flight bags, etc..

I don't know anyone who places more than one or two upon the actual instrument panel. Buddy and Jean McGown have a very nice shadow-box display in their den where they have displayed all the dash-plaques from the conventions they have attended and it looks very nice indeed.

The dash plaques are a gift to convention attendees from Bob and Carol Coats.