Historic motoring you can actually be part of
The Vintage Sports-Car Club has been bringing people together through vintage and historic cars since 1934. Today, the Club organises around 40 competitive and social events across the UK each year, from Racing, hill climbs and sprints to Trials, Rallies, Driving Tests, AutoSOLOs and Tours.
But the VSCC is about considerably more than watching old cars from a distance.
Our cars are used. They race, climb hills, tackle mud, navigate country lanes and occasionally require several people to push them back into life. Our paddocks are open, our Members are approachable and there are plenty of ways to become part of what is going on.
You do not need to own a vintage car, and you certainly do not need to arrive knowing everything about them.
Find a VSCC event
Join the VSCC
Become a Marshal
Come and see what we do
One of the easiest ways to discover the VSCC is simply to come to an event.
At our Race Meetings you can watch vintage and historic cars competing wheel to wheel at circuits including Silverstone, Donington Park, Cadwell Park and Mallory Park. At our Speed events, competitors take on hill climbs including Prescott and Shelsley Walsh and sprints such as Curborough, racing individually against the clock.
Away from the circuits, Trials put cars and crews to the test on steep, often muddy sections, while Driving Tests and AutoSOLOs reward accuracy, car control and a good memory. Rallies and Tours take our cars onto the road and into some of the best motoring country in Britain.
The competition is serious, but the atmosphere around it is informal.
Get close to the cars
A VSCC paddock is not somewhere you need a special pass to enter.
You can walk among the cars, watch competitors and mechanics preparing them, see repairs being made and talk to the people who own, drive and look after them. For many Members, those conversations are as much a part of a VSCC event as the competition itself.
These are historic cars being used for the purpose for which many of them were built. They may be valuable, unusual or historically important, but that does not mean they have to spend their lives behind ropes.
We believe the best way to understand them is to see them being used.
You don't need a car to get involved
Owning an eligible car is not a requirement for membership of the Vintage Sports-Car Club.
Some Members compete. Others Marshal, volunteer, organise events, navigate, research motoring history, attend local gatherings or simply enjoy being around the cars and the people who use them.
If you are interested in vintage motoring but have no idea where to begin, that is perfectly normal. Coming to an event is usually the best place to start.
Ask questions. Look around the paddock. Talk to people. Most of us became involved because somebody once did the same for us.
Become a VSCC Marshal
Marshalling is one of the best ways to become actively involved in motorsport without owning a competition car.
VSCC Marshals carry out a huge range of roles. Some work trackside or on a Trial section, while others help in Assembly Areas, Paddocks, Administration, Start Lines, car parks and many other parts of an event.
You do not need to arrive as an expert. Training, support and opportunities to learn are available, and Marshalling is an excellent way to understand how events work, meet people and become part of the Club.
Many of our most experienced competitors, Officials and organisers started by volunteering.
Fancy having a go yourself?
Vintage motorsport is not reserved for professional racing drivers or people with enormous budgets.
Different VSCC disciplines offer different routes into competition. Driving Tests and AutoSOLOs provide particularly accessible ways to begin, while Trials, Rallies, Speed events and Racing offer opportunities to progress in whichever direction appeals to you.
The Club also works to make it easier for younger people to become involved, both as competitors and volunteers.
If competition interests you but you are unsure which route is right for you, explore our different disciplines or talk to the Club Office. We would much rather help someone find a sensible way in than leave them wondering whether they belong.
More than the competition
For many Members, the events are only part of the story.
The VSCC has a network of local gatherings, Sections and Registers, Tours and social activities. Members also have access to the Club's publications, technical knowledge, Forum, Library and more than 90 years of accumulated motoring history.
Friendships formed around the Club often last rather longer than the cars behave themselves.
That combination of competition, knowledge, volunteering, history and friendship is why the VSCC has endured since 1934.
Keeping vintage cars in active use
The VSCC exists not simply to preserve historic cars, but to help ensure that they continue to be understood, maintained and used.
That means supporting the skills and knowledge needed to keep them running, encouraging new generations to become involved and thinking seriously about how historic motoring continues into the future.
The cars matter. So do the people who know how to build, maintain, drive and enjoy them.
The future of vintage motoring depends on both.
Your first step
If you have never been to a VSCC event before, come and see us.
You can watch the competition, wander through the paddock, talk to Members and decide for yourself whether this slightly eccentric corner of motorsport is for you.
And if it is, there are plenty of ways in.
Already convinced? Join the Club
