San Diego Roadster Club

The San Diego Roadster Club is a hot rod club from San Diego, California. The club was founded by eight like-minded individuals in 1941.

The original eight founding members proudly displaying their new uniforms and patches in 1941. Photo from The San Diego Roadster Club Photo Collection.

A photo of Bozzie Willis with his gow job taken in 1942. Photo from The San Diego Roadster Club Photo Collection.

Paul Schiefer's 1925 Ford Model T Roadster of San Diego, California. Schiefer was a member of the San Diego Roadster Club. He started racing his roadster in 1947, and it became one of the few cars campaigned on the lakes and the strips that, within a decade, saw its first-year top speeds on the dry lakes exceeded by its later 1/4-mile ETs.

The San Diego Roadster Club is a hot rod club from San Diego, California. The club was founded by eight like-minded individuals in 1941. Friends that wanted to run their roadsters at the dry lakes of Southern California.

The Original Eight

The original founding members are John Cervany, Chuck Floto, Charles McMahon, Ed Stewart, Johnny Vesco, Rollie Packard, Bozzy Willis and J. Otto Crocker.

Still Running

The club was still active in 2019, and membership was limited to people who genuinely wanted to participate in the sport of land speed racing and who genuinely wanted to participate in the sport of land speed racing.

Members

Bozzy Willis
Bruce Crower
Charles B. Floto
Charles McMahon
Chet Culbert
Chuck Floto
Ed Stewart
Fred Lobello
Hank Osborne
John Cervany
Johnny Vesco
Jack Osborne
J. Otto Crocker
Lou Bingham
Paul Schiefer
Rollie Packard
W. Coahran
Ward Soule
J. Downey

Club Cars

Paul Schiefer's 1925 Ford Model T Roadster