About Me
In the summer of 1975 three freinds thought that it would be fun to start a club that would consist of old cars. During their lunch break, in the shipyard where they worked, they came up with a flyer. In that flyer it said "If you like and have an old car and want to start a club please attend a meeting which will be held in the evening on July 10th in Chicano Park." They passed the flyers arround to thiere friends compadres and every one else. The flyer got arround, and on July 10, 18 clean ranflas from all over the San Diego area appeard, of those 18 that showed up, only 10 decided to stay to form a club. Right away they started to think of a name for this new club, In the begining, there were three or four diffrent names that came up while listening to some "Oldies", yet no one agreed on any of them. That was untill someone said."hey! we like to listen to "oldies" and we have "oldies", so what if we call ourselves "OLDIES".
Everyone liked the sound of it and acually agreed, then they came up with the idea to make the plaques out of brass with Old English letters.As time passed and the clubs prestige grew, members began to grow. Whether it was a carnal inviting another carnal into the club or by word of mouth, the positive attention we were getting was good, it seemed as though anywhere you went, you were bound to see the "OldieS" placaso iether in someones ranfla or shirt. Likewise in 1981 a member of the club went to L.A., and while there in L.A, he saw this guy with the placaso of "OldieS" on his cap. The carnal from San Diego was curious to know what "OldieS" on his cap meant, so he asked him, the guy said it stood for a car club in San Fernando Valley, The carnal from San Diego,who also had a cap with "OldieS" said that he was also in a car club.On June 28 1981, OldieS car club San Diego invited thiere canales of SFV and thiere families to come down to Chicano Park to have a good time.The gente from SFV were sporting a brown shirt with yellow block letters in a wave like manner, and the shirts from the gente of San Diego were black with white Old English letters. Both clubs came up with the idea to make one plaque that said"Oldies Car Club" with out mentioning the area where one was from so it would show unity amongst any other chapter. The shirts also changed they became black with yellow Old English letters in a wave like manner.Both clubs reallized that they shared common interests,one being the old car, the purpose to unite carnales throughout Aztlan, and the same goals which the main one was to gain respect from the community and from other clubs. Communication between both clubs were constant. Both clubs got together for caravans,parties, and shows.
the rest is history 33 yrs later.
