A red racecar throwing dust and a red monoplane cutting overhead, both on a navy field, with a line of small type at the bottom: A Product of Midwest Oil Company. Ace High was selling speed in two dimensions at once, back when both the car and the airplane were still new enough to be thrilling.
Printed on a Gildan 18500 heavy blend hooded sweatshirt — 8 oz cotton-poly, classic fit, double-lined hood with a color-matched drawcord and a front pouch pocket. Tubular knit with no side seams. Tear-away label. Machine wash cold, tumble dry low.
The name is a card player's phrase, and the imagery is pure interwar optimism — an era when a gasoline company could reasonably suggest that the same fuel powering a board-track racer might also be worth putting in an aircraft. The parent company name in small type is the sort of detail that separates a genuine sign from a modern reproduction. This design comes from a 1980s silk screen ceramic reproduction of the original graphic, part of a set that has been in the family collection for decades.
The perfect gift for the collector who works both automotive and aviation, the racer with a taste for prewar iron, the pilot who also restores cars, the dad who reads the manufacturer line at the bottom of every sign, and anyone who wants a graphic with two vehicles and no restraint.
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