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| Founded | 1970 |
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| Founded at | Perth, Australia |
| Type | Outlaw motorcycle club |
Region | Australia, Norway, Germany |
| Website | www.coffincheatersmc.org |
The Coffin Cheaters are an international outlaw motorcycle club that was formed in Perth, Western Australia, in 1970.[1] The Perth-based Coffin Cheaters amalgamated in 1999 with a previously unrelated club in Victoria called Coffin Cheaters, and later "patched over" two Norwegian gangs, Forbidden Few MC and Wizard MC, in 2004 and 2005 respectively.[2] The Coffin Cheaters were the first Australian gang to expand internationally.[1]
An unrelated US club, Coffin Cheaters MC, founded in the early 1960s in southern California has no connection to the Australian club. City Crew Mc is a feeder club .[3][4] The US club is also unusual in not having "prospects" or probationary members and normally allows only blood relatives of existing members to join.[4]
- ^ a b Cowan, Sean. "Secret case against Withnell". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
- ^ "Oz Coffin Cheaters expand into Europe". dinosmc.com. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
- ^ "'Often imitated never Duplicated' The original Coffin Cheaters MC". coffincheatersmc.net. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
- ^ a b Hayes, Bill (2011), The One Percenter Encyclopedia: The World of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs, MBI Publishing Company, pp. 134–136, ISBN 9781610598019