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The Club will have a stand as usual at November’s Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC in Birmingham on 8th-10th of November, and there is a discount code available to visitors to this site as shown below.
Please come to this high-profile show and say hello to club members on our stand!
Members who access the archive of ‘County Counsel‘ issues online will be pleased to know that another year’s worth of magazines has now been added to the archive. You can now access all issues up to and including issue 284 (Nov/Dec 2022).
If you’re a current member and would like access to the archive, please email the editor and you will be issued a password.
The organisers of this year’s NEC ‘Practical Classics’ Restoration Show have released the code which allows us to advertise a discounted ticket offer.
Members who have registered for the ‘members only’ area of the website will see the Restoration Show flyer at the top of the list of archived files, which includes the discount code. If you’re a club member and would like a password to access the ‘members only’ area please contact me .
A copy of the flyer will also be sent with the Jan/Feb issue of ‘County Counsel’ with both the printed and email copies of the magazine, and you will shortly also be able to access the code by following the club’s official Facebook page .
You can find out more about the Practical Classics Restoration Show here
You can now buy your 2024 club membership online here The cost has been held at £30 per annum.
If you are a new member and join in November, you’ll get six copies of ‘County Counsel’, during 2024 and, as with all members , you’ll qualify for a discount with our preferred supplier of new parts, Longbridge Motor Spares.
The organisers of the November NEC Classic Car Show have released the code via which club members can access discounted tickets. Unfortunately this came just after the latest magazine had been sent for printing, but it has been included with the copy of the magazine emailed to members.
If you need to see a copy of it, it’s been added to the ‘Members Only‘ area as an item in the ‘County Counsel’ archive. If you haven’t yet requested your member’s password for the archive, please email me and I’ll send it to you.
I’ll also include a copy of the flyer with the Sept/Oct ‘County Counsel’ due out in late October.
The ACCC Annual Rally will take place on Sunday 16th June 2024, and will be held in the New Forest area of Hampshire.
As with previous rallies there will be activities, including a club meal on Saturday 15th, throughout the weekend.
Further details will be published in ‘County Counsel‘ nearer to the date.
Member Peter Harrison has kindly sent some video footage of some of our cars leaving the Makeney Hall Hotel during the Rally weekend, with some footage of them in situ at the Crich Tramway Village.
You can view the footage here .
The club held its Annual Rally on Sunday 18th June at the Crich Tramway Village, preceded by a Peak District road run on Saturday 17th, which took in such attractions as The Great British Car Journey, Dave Kingerley’s Longbridge Motor Spares premises, and some very scenic roads (with some challenging gradients!) .
The weekend was greatly enjoyed by all those who attended – whether they were there throughout the weekend at the Makeney Hall Hotel, where a thoroughly enjoyable meal was held on Saturday night, or came along for the main event at Crich on Sunday.
Our thanks must go to John and Elizabeth Reed whose hard work and organisational skills made the weekend the success that it was.
A full report will appear in the next issue of ‘County Counsel’ together with a list of all the prizewinners.
As members will be aware, the club has made new arrangements for the supply of new and used spares.
These are detailed here or can be found by looking under the ‘Spares’ menu link
The latest copy of Classic Car Weekly newspaper has some excellent coverage of our cars at the NEC Classic Car and Restoration Show on the weekend of 24th – 26th March.
Our cars and Club have 3 separate mentions in this issue alone. You can see snapshots of the articles below.
They are namely the editors snap shot choices at the show – with John Reed’s Car;
John’s Hereford featured again in the Award Winners’ Section and with a team shot;
Finally, a fantastic picture with a large write up on Dave Whyley’s A90 Atlantic on the ‘Lancaster Insurance pride of Ownership’ stand chosen by Nick Larkin and taking the main two pages.
I can see no other club in the paper getting 3 separate article of coverage as we have. So this really is a huge success for us as a Club.
Thanks to all involved and for supplying cars for the weekend.
As a further note, the Counties range was well supported at the event, not only with our Club display, and David’s Atlantic Convertible, but with an A40 Somerset on the ‘Stourbridge Pre-war Car Club’ stand and a second A90 Atlantic Convertible on the ‘Enthusiasts of British Motor Vehicles Built before 1985‘ stand.
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