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VSCC 80th Anniversary Accommodation Booking now Available cover

VSCC 80th Anniversary Accommodation Booking now Available

Wednesday 23 October 2013

We are pleased to be able to announce that accommodation booking is now available for the VSCC 80th Anniversary, with a number of options suitable for everyone’s pocket.

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Last VSCC event of 2013, the Winter Driving Tests, now open for entries cover

Last VSCC event of 2013, the Winter Driving Tests, now open for entries

Tuesday 22 October 2013

Members can now enter the VSCC Winter Driving Tests, which take place at St. George’s Barracks, Bicester on Saturday 7 December. The year’s traditional curtain-closer is the last chance for competitors to accrue those all-important points towards the Club’s many Annual Aggregate Trophies as well as their final opportunity to compete in earnest with the Club this year.

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Last Chance to Go Vintage in 2013 at Goodwood this coming Saturday cover

Last Chance to Go Vintage in 2013 at Goodwood this coming Saturday

Monday 21 October 2013

As Autumn leaves fall with vigour, Vintage Sports-Car Club members are busy preparing their Sprint cars for the final time this year ahead of this Saturday’s  Autumn Sprint, at Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex.

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Provisional Results for the Welsh Trial and Vintage Welsh Rally are now available for download cover

Provisional Results for the Welsh Trial and Vintage Welsh Rally are now available for download

Monday 14 October 2013

Members can now download Provisional Results for the Welsh Trial and Vintage Welsh Rally, which took place on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October.

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Subaru’s are Ready and the VSCC Welsh Weekend is GO! cover

Subaru’s are Ready and the VSCC Welsh Weekend is GO!

Friday 11 October 2013

The Vintage Sports-Car Club have taken delivery of two Subaru Forester’s courtesy of Subaru UK and they are now packed with all of the equipment for the Welsh Weekend which gets underway in the Welsh Border town of Presteigne tomorrow. The two Foresters will be used as Course Cars on the event, one of the oldest on the VSCC calendar, which started in 1937.

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Richard Wade 2013 VSCC Christmas Card now available cover

Richard Wade 2013 VSCC Christmas Card now available

Thursday 10 October 2013

The VSCC has commissioned one of the Club’s favourite artists, Richard Wade for the 2013 Christmas Card and we are pleased to announce that it is on-sale now.  ‘Spirit of Christmas Past and Present’ shows a typical VSCC gathering at The Phoenix at Hartley Wintney, Hampshire..................

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Job Opportunity at the VSCC - Membership Secretary cover

Job Opportunity at the VSCC - Membership Secretary

Wednesday 09 October 2013

Closing Date for applications at end of business this Friday 11 October

We are looking for a full time Membership Secretary to join a small and dedicated team in one of the world’s leading sporting motor clubs, providing top class motor sport meetings and social events throughout the UK.

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October Issue of Classic Competition Car is now live cover

October Issue of Classic Competition Car is now live

Tuesday 08 October 2013

The October issue of Classic and Competition Car is now available to download at www.classicandcompetitioncar.com

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Closing the Racing Season in Spectacular ‘Nash Style (Results now Live) cover

Closing the Racing Season in Spectacular ‘Nash Style (Results now Live)

Monday 07 October 2013

Frazer Nash Super Sports racer, Frederic Wakeman won yesterday’s Vintage Sports-Car Club race for Pre-war Sports-Cars, a one-off invited grid to the Castle Combe Autumn Classic event.

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VSCC Feature at the Castle Combe ‘Autumn Classic’ this Sunday in a Top-Flight Line Up. cover

VSCC Feature at the Castle Combe ‘Autumn Classic’ this Sunday in a Top-Flight Line Up.

Friday 04 October 2013

Pre-war Sports-Cars from the Vintage Sports-Car Club have a headline race at this Sundays (6 October) ‘Castle Combe Autumn Classic Meeting’, supported by Carole Nash Insurance & Bristol Forklifts.

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October Newsletter cover

October Newsletter

Thursday 03 October 2013

The October edition of the Newsletter is now available for Club members to download

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The Seaman Memorial Trophies Race Meeting Report cover

The Seaman Memorial Trophies Race Meeting Report

Tuesday 01 October 2013

The Seaman Memorial Trophies Race Meeting, the VSCC’s final Circuit Racing event of the 2013 Public calendar had attracted a strong entry for the 12 race programme, building on last year’s inaugural visit to the Norfolk venue which had been so successful.

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VSCC Statement Regarding Fatality at Snetterton cover

VSCC Statement Regarding Fatality at Snetterton

Monday 30 September 2013

The Vintage Sports-Car Club has confirmed that a competitor died following injuries sustained during a racing accident at Snetterton circuit in Norfolk, on Sunday 29 September 2013.

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Maeers Looks to net two significant VSCC racing Trophies at Snetterton cover

Maeers Looks to net two significant VSCC racing Trophies at Snetterton

Friday 27 September 2013

GN ‘Parker’ racer, Justin Maeers, goes to Snetterton leading the running in both of the Club’s MSA registered championships. The Longstone Tyres Vintage Racing Trophy recognises drivers of Sports-Cars that have been driven to the circuit to race.  Competitors accumulate points based on their racing successes throughout the season and are awarded tyre vouchers to spend with Longstone Tyres.  Justin leads the running by 14 points, ahead of a quartet of fellow ‘Nash racers.

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British GT and Le Mans Ace goes Vintage at VSCC Snetterton this Weekend cover

British GT and Le Mans Ace goes Vintage at VSCC Snetterton this Weekend

Thursday 26 September 2013

One of Britain’s top GT racers, Calum Lockie, will be showing the Vintage Sports-Car Club members how a pro would do it, as he takes to the wheel of Sean Danaher’s Maserati 6CM at Snetterton this Sunday for the VSCC’s Seaman Memorial Trophies Race Meeting.

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Will it be Another Sweet Success in the ‘Spero’ for Mahany at Snetterton? cover

Will it be Another Sweet Success in the ‘Spero’ for Mahany at Snetterton?

Wednesday 25 September 2013

The name W.J Mahany dominates the roll call of Spero Trophy winners since 2005, as his beautifully presented 1938 HRG Le Mans has powered him to eight consecutive victories in this prestigious race for smaller capacity cars.  One of the younger racers in the Club, Will has to juggle his passion for racing with a demanding career overseas and plans his annual leave around VSCC events proving his devotion to his sport.

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Can David Morris and ‘Humphrey’ make it nineteen? cover

Can David Morris and ‘Humphrey’ make it nineteen?

Tuesday 24 September 2013

Not only is ERA R11B one of the most campaigned ERA racers, having been the last ERA to be entered in a national event (Douglas Hull ran the car in the 1959 British Hill Climb Championship) it has enjoyed being in the ownership of one dedicated family for the majority of its history.   R11B, better known as ‘Humphrey’ has been part of the Morris family for 51 years, and during that time it has been campaigned to the full with much success.

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Last Man Standing as Owner – Driver –Mechanic Awards Concludes this Sunday at Snetterton  cover

Last Man Standing as Owner – Driver –Mechanic Awards Concludes this Sunday at Snetterton

Monday 23 September 2013

A full grid of Standard and Modified Pre-war Sports-Car Racers are relishing this coming Sunday’s Redgate Mug Race at the Vintage Sports-Car Club’s Seaman Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Snetterton, the final one of the programme that counts towards their aggregate Results for 2013.  Only an extraordinary turn of events will deny last year’s winner, Ian Standing another title thanks to more top class performances in his 1929 Riley Brooklands.  He goes into Snetterton with a giant killing lead of 13 points over his nearest rival, 1929 Frazer Nash Super Sports driver, Charles Gillett.

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VSCC Young Persons Trip to France Video cover

VSCC Young Persons Trip to France Video

Friday 20 September 2013

At the end of last month nearly 30 young members of the Vintage Sports-Car Club travelled to northern France with their Vintage cars for a week’s holiday. Participants came from all over the country and had all met through the VSCC; camping out and taking in the French roads, towns and sights by day.

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VSCC PRINCIPAL ASSOCIATE, BONHAMS SELL EX-TAZIO NUVOLARI 1935 ALFA ROMEO FOR WORLD RECORD BREAKING PRICE OF £5.9 MILLION AT GOODWOOD REVIVAL SALE  cover

VSCC PRINCIPAL ASSOCIATE, BONHAMS SELL EX-TAZIO NUVOLARI 1935 ALFA ROMEO FOR WORLD RECORD BREAKING PRICE OF £5.9 MILLION AT GOODWOOD REVIVAL SALE

Thursday 19 September 2013

One of the most charismatic of all the great pre-war Grand Prix racing cars  - the ex-Tazio Nuvolari 1935 Alfa Romeo Tipo C 8C-35 ‘50013’ - Scuderia Ferrari Nr ‘65’ sold for £5,937,500 at Bonhams Goodwood Revival Meeting  on Saturday 14 September, creating a new world record for an Alfa Romeo sold at auction.
The previous record for this marque was £4,245,118 for a 1933 Alfa Romeo 8 cylinder Monza 2300 sold in California in 2010.

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