New Limited Rods of Western Illinois / Railtown Rumble / River 2 River

10/06/2026

Limited Rodders, it's meeting day once again! The finance committee has met with the refreshment committee and we're good for a 7pm start!

09/24/2026

Limited Rods would like to thank everyone that attended our 3 events this year, participants and spectators alike. With your and our great sponsors help, we were able to award three Scholarships, donate to the VFW, Oaks and several other charitable events during the year.

09/23/2026

The club was invited to breakfast with the VFW this morning. Several of us were able to attend. We were happy to present the remaining donation from the Car Show. Thanks to Larry Lynch for donating his winning half of the 50/50 too.
We still have a donation to make to the OAKS for their part of the show.

08/26/2026

Just like Limited Rods except bigger.

Metallica is one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. What most of their fans don't know is what the band has quietly been building off stage: one of the largest trade-school pipelines in the country.

It runs through their foundation, All Within My Hands, and specifically the Metallica Scholars Initiative. In partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges, the band funds career and technical education, real, hands-on training for real jobs. Welding. Plumbing. Electrical work. And increasingly, nursing, EMT and firefighting, automotive repair, pipefitting, and agriculture.

The scale is the surprising part. As of 2026, the program supports 93 community colleges across all 50 states, plus Guam. Its latest round alone put more than 3 million dollars into those schools. And it has now backed some 13,000 students in learning skills that lead to stable, well-paying careers, with the program recently expanding overseas too.

Frontman James Hetfield has explained why it matters to them. Touring, he points out, runs entirely on skilled trades: the electricians, drivers, cooks, and mechanics who make every show possible. The band said it wanted to reinvest in exactly those kinds of workers.

No splashy campaign. No album tie-in. Just a metal band deciding that the people who build and fix and wire the world deserve a shot, and quietly footing the bill for thousands of them 🤘

07/19/2026

Limited Rods would like to thank everyone that braved the heat and threat of rain to come out to the Cruise today! We had some great food vendors, some awesome marketing partners and last but not least some of the coolest Cruisers and vehicles in the area.

07/03/2026

07/01/2026

The Car Club members were servers at Culvers tonight, fund raising for our scholarship fund. Thanks to Culvers and all that supported us.

06/08/2026

A beautiful day at the park.

06/07/2026

Lincoln Park, today Sunday June 7