Who ended up with the Econo Motors plate frame?

[Mango Juice]

I was in the riverside area earlier this year and was going through one of the local classifieds for cars and there was a business that sold used newer cars called ECONO......could this be where all the checkered corner plate frames are coming from?

[restojohnny]

[Mango Juice]

I have seen so many of those plate frames floating around even on the big auction site....I never stopped by that car dealership in Riverside to see if every car on the lot had them but someone in the area could snoop it out or at least call information for Riverside and get the business address to check it out.......they just say Riverside on top and ECONO on the bottom.

[Richard Roth]

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[restojohnny]

Okay Coad ! I've been cruising the street's of North Hollywood & Beveryl Hill's for quite some time looking for every old ass 50's porsche and not a single one has a competition motor's frame but I did come across this EUROPA MOTOR'S license plate frame and a dozen warning's not to cruise the street's of Beverly hill's at 5 miles an hour looking in everyone's yard LOL It's not a Competition Motor's frame but atleast it's a VW ONLY dealership frame from North Hollywood. To bad It's not for sale.
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[clyde68]

Never mind all this econo stuff im only looking for a Whittier plate surround and ive had no joy so these must be mega rare.

LEE WOOD MOTORS, WHITTIER.

Can anyone help???????????????????

[coad]

[restojohnny]

[restojohnny]

Ya know what Will ? I've looked at my dealership book and I don't see a Competition Motor's in it. But the Europa dealership is in the book and clearly say's they are from North Hollywood. It's obvious that Competition Motor's does exist but probably too rare a frame to find but I'll come across it sooner or later and trust me bro it's YOUR'S. Until then I'll keep hittin the pavement not looking for the SHIM's & the pro's & the Ho's but for the VW's and parts that I get for free and sell to ALL of you for an outrageous amount of $$$ Just kidding about the free part (or am I )
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54 Pre-A Porsche
55 oval ribbed door non-semiphore
56 semiphore ragtop
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67 OG black paint beetle sedan empi accessorized
67 original Empi GTV beetle convertible !!
67 euro squareback
67 deluxe walkthru (work in progress)
67 convertible ghia (work in progress)

"STAY OUTTA MY BACKYARD !!! "

[clyde68]

[clyde68]

why did that last post come out as a quote?? never mind.

[clyde68]

Any joy with the frames guys?

[restojohnny]

Finally found the frame that's been hiding from me all these month's. HEY COAD ! IT'S FOR SALE Let me know if you want it because you got first DIB'S Let me know apparently the dealership must of moved in the late 50's to woodland hill's or maybe the city was divided and it fell onto the woodland hill's area. Whatever the case this is the correct COMPETITION MOTOR'S frame you need.
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54 Pre-A Porsche
55 oval ribbed door non-semiphore
56 semiphore ragtop
63 notchback (work in progress)
67 OG black paint beetle sedan empi accessorized
67 original Empi GTV beetle convertible !!
67 euro squareback
67 deluxe walkthru (work in progress)
67 convertible ghia (work in progress)

"STAY OUTTA MY BACKYARD !!! "

[EverettB]

Competition Motors was in Hollywood in the 50s but I don't know if one of those frames exists. I have never seen one.

1955 ad:

I have seen several Woodland Hills frames, all with VW emblems, both in blue and red. I don't know when they moved.
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[53 0val]

When I was into Porsches.........Competition Motors did not sell VWs. (Unless you consider the 914 a VW.) Maybe when they moved they dropped the bug?
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[53 0val]

Wrong again.
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[RareAir]

[53 0val]

914s were sold in the US under the Porsche banner as well a 914-6s. You could not buy a 914 from a VW only based dealer. In California, stores like Don Burns could sell both but that only lasted for a few years. Competition motors may have sold both VWs and Porsches for a limited time. The Competition Motors I am familiar with, only sold Porsches. They must have dropped the VWs like Don Burnes did.
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[Richard Roth]

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1954 Kabriolett Beetle
1953 Porsche 356 1500S
1957 Cable brake standard model
1962 cable brake standard model
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1960 Austin Healey 3000
1961 Corvair Greenbrier