Established in 1996, we are a group of passionate car enthusiasts who live and breathe American classic cars, and are based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Our mission in life is to provide an environment for other like minded car aficionados to savour and enjoy their American classics, without the rules and restrictions that seem to dog other areas of everyday lives.
If you are an American classic car owner who feels the same as we do, we invite you to take a small journey through our site to see if this sounds like you. If you like what you see, and want to be involved, then send in a membership application.
The only hard and fast condition of membership is that prospective members must own an American classic car that is pre-2000 model year which must be of historical interest.
Our mission in life is to provide an environment for other like minded car aficionados to savour and enjoy their American classics, without the rules and restrictions that seem to dog other areas of everyday lives.
If you are an American classic car owner who feels the same as we do, we invite you to take a small journey through our site to see if this sounds like you. If you like what you see, and want to be involved, then send in a membership application.
The only hard and fast condition of membership is that prospective members must own an American classic car that is pre-2000 model year which must be of historical interest.
American Classic Car Club members are unable to provide classic vehicles for events such as weddings, birthdays, family outings etc, as they are not licensed to undertake these activities.
Ross Brothers Museum Cambridge - Saturday 16 March 2024
More photos and story coming Thursday.....
Standring Shed Raid - Sunday 18 February 2024
Lucky with the weather, lucky with the final Plan, lucky finding Standring’s, unlucky with the lack of knowledge about the planned meeting place at the good old Smales Farm. Checked the Car Park two Sundays and all good- plenty of room for 40 or so cars to park and a couple of Coffee Places up at the main buildings for a take away coffee. Goodness, as we arrived there the place is full. There was a special one off plant market day and a thousand people all carrying little pots of ‘green’ stuff (sorry I am better with black car stuff under my finger nails than green.) Never mind as there was an anticipation of a fabulous garage visit and I am relieved to say that most enjoyed it. Graeme Standring and his car partner Nick Brown make a great commentary couple and recounted many tales of wonderful adventures wanting and buying these vehicles. Not to much ‘american’ but a delightful array of ‘motors’ never the less. I particularly liked the one about the lovely green VW Karmann Coupe. Graeme found it not far from his home. His Wife saw it and said she loved it so, with birthday coming up Graeme thought ‘mmmmm- surprise’. Graeme went to look at it and they went for a drive. The trouble was the seller kept driving past there own house so Graeme was constantly bending right down and remarking what great carpet there was on the floor, frightened his wife would be watching. Imagine pulling a very expensive ‘Gull wing Mercedes’ into a thousand pieces, recondition it and putting it back together correctly. It was one of his first and they learned very quickly to use the old Mac I-pad and take heaps of photos before disassembly. Nevertheless they have ‘done a lot of cars now including; 1. MG ‘C’ type. 2. VW Karmann. 3. two Datsun 240Z sports cars. 4. Mercedes 280SL Pagoda. 5. Porsche Cayman ‘R’ (one of his favourites I think). 6. Renault Red Bull. 7. Aston Martin Coupe. 8. Jaguar XK 120. 9. Ford Sierra Cosworth Turbo. 10. Chevrolet Corvette. Checkout the photos from the day HERE... 2024 Ellerslie Concours De Elegance - Saturday 10 February
Thoughts from Dave Roper:
After getting through the traffic jam, banked up from Ellerslie Racecourse back onto the motorway I got to the meeting point at the Racecourse parking area around 8.45 to find 3 others already there, the others all got there buy 9am. Thanks to all the club members that made today's turnout at Ellerslie Concourse the best ever, 10 cars. Thanks to Bruce Miller for bringing Ezyup. The organisers came to the party and supplied an extra 2 tickets over the 8 normally allocated to allow all those that asked could attend. There were displays from nearly 80 car clubs. In the main hall was a display of Zagato bodied classics and another hall had a range of supercars from the Giltrap stable. Thoughts from Rodger Anderson: I have been involved with Concours De Elegance since 1963 when the M.G.Car Club used to run events at Sunken Gardens in Cornwell Park. The event was moved to Ellerslie and it then started to ‘blossom to the huge event it is now. It reaches out for all New Zealand Car Clubs these days. Several Clubs are represented on the Committee that runs the event and it is run annually (unless Covid intervenes) usually on the second week in February. If you like to wear out fingernails, crawl around under cars, paint little parts, align fittings that were probably crooked like that in the assembly factory, then you can maybe have the ‘honour’ bestowed on you to be part of a Team that presents a car entrant. I have now done his for most years the event is run. It has been my privilege to work on a few makes. Last year I was on the Wayne Marmont winning Porsche 911 car team and this year I worked on the winning Chris and Mary Fitzpatrick 1968 Ford Mustang California Special team. The two cars are quite special models; The White Mustang Fastback of Shane McCallum’s is a 1965 “K” Code car, 289 cu.in. V8. The red Mustang of Chris and Mary Fitzpatrick is a 1968 Notchback GT California Special 1968 pre production 289 cu.in. car well accessorised. Against Jaguar, TR Register, MG, and a second Mustang team, this team came out on top with most combined points. There are five judged category’s being; 1. Teams of 2 cars (the main event), 2. Survivors, 3. 50/50/50 cars, 4. Modified class, 5. The PREMIER Masters class. Masters Class has undoubtably always been the very top class and yet another Ford Mustang 1965 Fastback won this event this time. It is a rebuilt Silver Blue original 289 cu.in. “K” code car that achieved 551 points out of a possible 580. As you can see the judges could find very little wrong. Probably a couple of specs of dust blown there on the day! A vast array of just about any car you could find makes this show one to be not missed for any enthusiast. Checkout the photos from the day HERE.... |
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UPCOMING ACCCA EVENTS
April - Saturday 7th Run to Waiau Pa Hop, Clarks Beach, Franklin. Meeting point TBC at 9am to depart 9.30am. Note you MUST pre-register to get in. 1. Today at the bank, an old lady asked me to help check her balance. So I pushed her over.
2. I bought some shoes from a drug dealer. I don't know what he laced them with, but I've been tripping all day. 3. I told my girlfriend she drew her eyebrows too high. She seemed surprised. 4. My dog used to chase people on a bike a lot. It got so bad, finally I had to take his bike away. 5. I'm so good at sleeping. I can do it with my eyes closed. 6. My boss told me to have a good day... so I went home. 7. Why is Peter Pan always flying? He neverlands. 8. A woman walks into a library and asked if they had any books about paranoia. The librarian says "They're right behind you!" 9. The other day, my wife asked me to pass her lipstick but I accidentally passed her a glue stick. She still isn't talking to me. 10. Why do blind people hate skydiving? It scares the hell out of their dogs. 11. When you look really closely, all mirrors look like eyeballs. 12. My friend says to me: "What rhymes with orange" I said: "No it doesn't" 13. What do you call a guy with a rubber toe? Roberto. 14. What did the pirate say when he turned 80 years old? Aye matey. 15. My wife told me I had to stop acting like a flamingo. So I had to put my foot down. 16. I couldn't figure out why the baseball kept getting larger. Then it hit me. 17. Why did the old man fall in the well? Because he couldn't see that well. 18. I ate a clock yesterday, it was very time consuming. Mark Twain on intelligence:-
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