I found this jacket with the Holley carburetors patch, and had a seamstress add the vintage Mercury racing patch I picked up from an online auction.
One of my good car-nut friends is a graphic designer who has done a lot of excellent automotive graphics work, including some for the Delmarva Cougar Club, which focuses on 1967-73 Mercury Cougars. He's done some great T-shirts and decals for us, and when the club celebrated its 10-year anniversary, he designed a huge embroidered patch that we had made for club members. The perfect way to wear the patch is, of course, on a vintage racing jacket. Our club colors are yellow, red, and black, so this jacket was perfect for the patch.
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I've found these racing jackets in the usual places, online auctions and vintage clothing stores, thrift shops and the like. I've scored a couple from the online store The Rusty Zipper. If you haven't visited there, check it out, they've got a ton of nice vintage clothing with good photos and size information.
Sweet! Loved your Hawaiian shirts too. =D
ReplyDeleteI used to have THE ugliest vintage cowboy shirt. Why oh why did I get rid of it? It was worth photographing and laughing at, at the very least lol...
Nice! I have some Dodge & Dart patches that I gotta sew onto something!
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