NAACC PRESIDENT’S REPORT #115 – MAY 2024
Posted by Cam Hutchins in Uncategorized On Apr 24 2024NAACC Accomplishments April 2024 –taken from NAACC Report #115Submitted by NAACC VCCC Rep & NAACC President John Carlson Hello members and executive of the Vintage Car Club of Canada and collector car friends.I was asked recently to update and provide a list of our NAACC accomplishments. In the past months […]
2017 CANADA 150 TOUR
Posted by Angela Holbrook in Event Coverage / Uncategorized tagged with Classic / Show / vintage On Aug 18 2017A Magical Tour Authored by Del Holbrook The Vintage Car Club of Canada’s Canada 150 Tour was a tremendous magical success. Ken Hoshowski and his committee put together an interesting and adventurous tour through the center of B. C. 58 cars started in Chilliwack on a sunny June 6th […]
Crusin’ the Okanagan – May Tour 2016
Posted by Angela Holbrook in Event Coverage / Nostalgia / Uncategorized tagged with fun / May Tour / tour / vintage On May 18 2016What a wonderful weekend!! We arrived to a friendly group of organizers who handed out the registration packages and escorted us out to waiting buses to go on a tour for the afternoon. There were two amazingl venues on our bus tour. Our first stop was the Summerhill Winery, where […]
Rally in the Valley – May Tour 2015
Posted by Angela Holbrook in Event Coverage / Fashion / Nostalgia On May 19 2015On a beautiful spring weekend, May 8 – 11, 2015 Central Fraser Valley Chapter hosted our 57th Annual May Tour. Over 100 vintage and antique vehicles and almost 250 people arrived at the Ag Rec Centre in Abbotsford. They were greeted by a very enthusiastic and energetic team lead by Jack […]
Vancouver Chapter’s Garage Tour!
Posted by Angela Holbrook in Event Coverage tagged with Garage Tour / Vancouver Chapter On Jan 27 2014Vancouver Chapter’s West Side Garage Tour took place on Sunday, October 27th. At 10:00AM we met at the Cheshire Cheese Inn at 4548 Dunbar Street for a bit of a brunch. Seen here is Peter Trant shouting instructions for our first checkpoint. And what a checkpoint it was! Peter […]
Bill Trant’s 1910 Buick Rear End Rebuild.
Posted by Angela Holbrook in Projects tagged with Buick / Rebuild / Trant / Vancouver On Jan 26 2014Some of you may remember that during the Vancouver Chapter’s Babe Run in July, 2011 my vehicle suffered a major engine failure when the centre main bearing broke out of the crankcase. Having repaired the engine it was behaving flawlessly and everything was “happy” with my car. While backing the […]
Porsche Museum Visit: The Birth of the 911.
Posted by Angela Holbrook in Nostalgia tagged with Museum / Porsche On Aug 20 2013I had planned to tick off two major boxes on my automotive to-do list. One was the Hungary F1 race, and the other was the BMW Welt and Museum in Munich. In upcoming blog posts you’ll get to read all about those two experiences, but today I’m documenting my spur of the moment visit to the Porsche Factory and Museum in Zuffenhausen near Stuttgart.