The Road Devils
The inspiration for this Stockholm located club came from a movie from 1958 - "Hot Rod Rumble", in Swedish "Vägens Djävlar".
It was displayed during a short period in cinemas in Stockholm and with a young Bo "Gamen" Sandberg in the audience.
After the movie, Bo said to his friend "Pilen": - Let's start the club Road Devils! And so they did.
The attitude was clear, nothing could beat "The Road Devils". They owned the town, had the best cars and the prettiest girls.
They caused a lot of fuzz and the newspapers eagerly wrote articles of the wild parties and alcoholic indulgance.
Bo had several aluminum club plates made to hang on the rear bumper. They were numbered and given to selected members.
Bo himself had the Plate number 0, indicating he was the leader.
The plate is designed with a road, and the name San Fernando is written. That was the name of the Dragstrip where they raced in the movie.
It is not clear how many plates that were made, many are unfortunately lost.
However Lennart Djurberg still has Plate #2. It hangs on the wall in his son Johan Djurberg car shop.
Plate #3 was given to Janne Eriksson but is now lost.
Bo's son Lee Sandberg has inheritated Plate #11.
Plate #13 is owned by Robert Dahl according to a FB note by his brother Anders Dahl.
The Plate #14 sign belonged to Kalle Rundkvist.
According to a note in a Facebook group here, Plate #22 went to Thorbjörn Östberg and Gunnar Eriksson with a Buick 1950.
An old photo shows a Pontiac 1954 convertible with Plate #28, owner might be Janne Halvarsson.
Harald Walczok in Stockholm had Plate #15, we are unsure if he still has it.
If you have seen or know of any of these plates please contact us!!
In the early 1960s the wild car life in the Road Devils began to diminish.
Other (more proper) car clubs managed to get facilities by the city but the Road Devils had too bad reputation.
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