I (for one) would rock this one with pride, just as it is.
Everybody is going to have an option-- but if it can't be the "Clown Car Club of America", then "PCCA" works well enough because it's an obvious thumbing of the nose at the PCA, which gets it bunches of style points. I'd just like a creepier clown and a tow truck in the crest.
If not a tow truck, then perhaps a hubcap flying off the clown car. I don't know, I'm not the artist.
If anybody can do it, it's our man Sacto Mitch!
OK, a little democracy in action here, folks. Time to vote, option A or option B.
Here's a bozo with a little more attitude:
And, wait a minute, isn't Canada in North America?
Sacto Mitch posted:
And, wait a minute, isn't Canada in North America?
Yes.
Now, about that Ferrari horse...
"Now, about that Ferrari horse..."
Yeah, I don't get that, either, but I started with the existing PCA badge, and, for some reason, that's part of it.
You could look it up.
That is the Porsche horse. It is very similar to the Ferrari horse which is more upright.
Stan Galat posted:Sacto Mitch posted:
And, wait a minute, isn't Canada in North America?
Yes.
Now, about that Ferrari horse...
Stuttgart's Coat of Arms has the prancing horse; as Stuttgart was once grazing lands / stud farms for war horses. Stuttgart was derived from Stuotgarten in Old High German; which means "stud garden".
Interestingly enough, it is the same exact horse found on the Ferrari logo.
"Countess Paolina Barracca suggester Ferrari adopt the prancing horse on their logo in honour of their sons success in WW1 as a pilot with Stuttgart's rampant horse painted on the side of the plane."
A story I had read some time ago was that Max Hoffman was the one that urged Porsche to develop a logo for the brand. Erwin Komenda drew it up. Based upon the coat of arms of the Free People’s State of Württemberg and the Coat of Arms for Stuttgart.
Ah, right you are, Michael (and Kevin). There it is right in the middle of the Porsche crest - apparently from the coat of arms of Stuttgart.
I wonder what the coat of arms of Hawaiian Gardens looks like.
Sacto Mitch posted:I wonder what the coat of arms of Hawaiian Gardens looks like.
A flying hubcap or a flatbed tow-truck, I tell you.
Gordon Nichols posted:Todd wrote: "Also, does anybody know what the distance should be from the steering wheel to the dash?"
Without going out to the garage, uncovering the car, getting all of the various and sundry things away from the door so I can open it (like sand buckets and snowblowers and stuff), if you have your hands on the steering wheel and simulate driving the car, you should be able to reach the headlight and wiper switches to pull on them to turn them on without removing your hands from the steering wheel. THAT's the way the originals were set up (and for that reason).
How's that sound? My guess, from the couch in my Man Cave on the banks of the Quinsigamond river, is about 4" - 5" or so. YFMV...(Your fingers may vary - Besides....It's a replica. Do what'cha like).
Thanks. I didn't know if there was some safety issue or if there was some standard distance that was comfortable when moving the seat back and forth for pedal reach.
Love the badge/sticker and yeah, PCCA is MUCH better than CCCA. Also +1 on the "print 'em at home & cut 'em out yeeself" concept. The home-madier the better!
Why not have multiple different clown designs—some with a dorky, cute, benign clown, some with an evil clown...maybe some featuring multiple clowns stuffed inside a tub? Keep the PCCA font and the outer rim lettering and let a thousand clowns bloom inside.
Boom. Ed Erikson for the win.
I work on the speedster project for a few hours today and there on my PC is a frig'n Clown badge staring at me..I Love IT ! PCCA rocks... a total finger wave to the PCA ! Make them with that clear film that clings to the glass like Colorforms we played with as kids.
Maybe we can use the Porsche font for Plastic Car.
I can't leave you kids alone for a couple hours without you stirring up trouble.....
I like the Bozo from Hell on the second one.
Sacto Mitch posted:
OK, a little democracy in action here, folks. Time to vote, option A or option B.
Here's a bozo with a little more attitude:
One hand empty....why not give him a gun and say it all ? This guy's got two....
looks like a couple of bullet holes of different caliber in the clowns upper forehead.
Stan Galat posted:Sacto Mitch posted:I wonder what the coat of arms of Hawaiian Gardens looks like.
A flying hubcap or a flatbed tow-truck, I tell you.
I've told this story before.
My brother worked for the City of Hawaiian Gardens about 45 years ago. One of his chores was to dig up and remove the water meters from properties where the owners didn't pay their water bills.
One day he was removing a meter and the lady of the house had her pet monkey attack my brother while he was in the hole. My brother summarily beat the monkey to death with his shovel. Still has the scars from the monkey bites.
Big brouhaha but nothing came of it.
What that has to do with the seal or crest of the City of Hawaiian Gardens or plastic cars escapes me, but it is a pretty good story.
That is as much thread drift as I can provide.
Panhandle Bob posted:...One day he was removing a meter and the lady of the house had her pet monkey attack my brother while he was in the hole. My brother summarily beat the monkey to death with his shovel...
Say what you will about The Samba, you just never ever come across a paragraph like this over there.
I've cleaned up the bozo from another mother a bit. Bullet holes are gone. The solitary hand and the distracting balloon are gone. A little cleaner, I think, and the PCCA reads better.
Of course, as a PCCA member, I knew that the missing hand was trying to remove a Weber idle jet by feel alone, but anyone else viewing the one-armed bozo might have other thoughts.
I'm looking into procuring the Porsche font, but I'm almost certain that will lead to litigation of one form or another.
And, alas, still no tow truck.
That's great Mitch! Are we gonna let Corvettes into the club? Must a member car be all plastic or just partially plastic? Plastic interior parts shouldn't be enough to qualify or then just anybody can get in, and we wouldn't want that. You should have to be able to prove the provenance of your plastic.
Sacto Mitch posted:
And, wait a minute, isn't Canada in North America?
We are so far, but that could always change...
Instead of a clown, how about a Hip, oversized Shriner dude stuffed in a Speedster, complete with the cap. We joke about Clowns, but I am not sure I want to fly one on my ride. Appreciate the work, but it sounds like I am the minority.
Sacto Mitch posted:
I've cleaned up the bozo from another mother a bit. Bullet holes are gone. The solitary hand and the distracting balloon are gone. A little cleaner, I think, and the PCCA reads better.
Of course, as a PCCA member, I knew that the missing hand was trying to remove a Weber idle jet by feel alone, but anyone else viewing the one-armed bozo might have other thoughts.
I'm looking into procuring the Porsche font, but I'm almost certain that will lead to litigation of one form or another.
And, alas, still no tow truck.
This right here is the one.
Never name your kids: Porsche, Mercedes or Yugo as you can never get their Polo shirts custom personalized!
Art posted:
That font is close enough for government work. I'm waiting for a flying hubcap in the crest.
As far as voting, I like everything so far. My wife thinks the original is "the one", but thinks the horse ought to be a unicorn.
I am dead serious. I want to rock this on my windshield. This would be the coolest badge/stickers I've ever had, and I've got some cool ones.
You could lose the horse and put in a rendering of a five spoke Fuchs wheel. That should get the attention of a certain other club. I also like Jeanie Galat's idea of a unicorn.
I think the logo should look almost identical to the real PCA logo and have the "Plasticar club of America" words small so it can only be read within 12" by most people. We can make Plasticar a newly created word to describe our cars. Just a thought.
I stopped at Michael's this morning and they have a clear static cling vinyl, 8-1/2" X 11" that is printable on ink jet printers . You could reverse the image and print it such that you can apply it to the inside of your windshield OR they also offer an adhesive backed sheet, also clear, that you could stick to the side of the car (MUSBJIM can place one right beside his Pegasus ponies).
Just ask someone for clear, static-cling vinyl that's printable.
Sizing it to your needs can be done on a variety of apps. Personally, I would use Powerpoint and scale it, simply because that's what I know best. I'm sure Photoshop can do that, too, but I don't speak Photoshop (too many layers and things to set).
This is for Jeannie. The Prancing Unicorn:
You could replace the crest with Slayer's one for the criminally insane
Although this is probably more appropriate
Carlos! You nailed the P car script.
Carlos The P' Attorneys Mr. Ben Dover and Mr. C. Howitsfeelz will be in touch :~)
Carlos, great job!
I was going to futz around with the text tonight, but you've beaten me to it.
This looks better than the original PCA badge, which uses two different fonts for some reason. And the spacing's better, too.
I'll have my attorneys, Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe, look into it.
Which graphic program are you running, Mitch?
Carlos, I'm using Photoshop on a Mac, but had never used the text around a path function before - it seems really kludgy.
I found some pseudo-Porsche fonts online at a number of sites - all of which look a little suspicious. I was going to download and install one of them, but thanks for saving me the trouble.
I use CorelDraw on a PC. I've been doing it since the early 90s.
I created this font, so it's not really a "font", they're just individual pieces of line art.
I can send you this art as an eps or something else that you can work with. Or send me Crusty and I'll recreate the logo.
