2015 Hagerty Spring Thaw Entry Forms!

Ball drops, champaign and a list of resolutions…who cares!?! The best part of every New Year is the opening of entries for the Hagerty Spring Thaw Classic Car Adventure! We might be a little bit biased, but the crowd of folks who drive up to our office each year suggests we aren’t the only ones thinking the same thing.

Before we release you to the entry forms, you might be interested to hear we’ve been hard at work all Fall planning the Hagerty Spring Thaw. This year’s version will combine many of your favourite things, along with a few new changes which are sure to excite you. “Changes,” you say, “you can’t change it!?!”  Well, lets not panic too early! We’re not tossing out the carburetors for fuel-injection, or opening the entry list to 1990 Cavaliers. But we are, for starters, changing our sweep team. Our regular guests on the Hagerty Spring Thaw are all familiar with Nigel and Yoki, who have for years followed our event ensuring each and everyone of our guests has made it to hotel in the evening. Nigel is one of the most passionate classic car enthusiasts we know of, but he’s only ever experienced the Hagerty Spring Thaw from the very back of the pack. Wouldn’t it be great to have him running ‘in the pack’ with the rest of us?

Fortunately some great friends have also wanted to give Nigel and Yoki a chance to experience more of the Spring Thaw for themselves. Robert and Jacyln, from RWM & Co. had so much fun joining us as sweep at the Fall Freeze, they asked if they could do the same for the Hagerty Spring Thaw. We couldn’t be more delighted! Robert has done more than a few road-side repairs for guests in previous Spring Thaws, and having a classic car restoration specialist at the back of the event is never a bad thing! Hagerty Collector Car Insurance will continue to offer the roadside assistance package should a breakdown be terminal, but RWM & Co. will be offering their assistance to help you repair your car and avoid the dreaded flat-deck. If you’re at all concerned about the need for our sweep protection, it might be wise to book your car in with RWM & Co. for a pre-Thaw inspection?  For more info about the shop, and photos of current projects, visit their facebook page here.

Hopefully you’ll agree with us that our “big changes” for 2015 are a great idea, and will only change the event for the better. We’ve been very careful to stick to our recipe of Great Roads, Great Cars and Great People. Speaking of which, we should mention Dave Koszegi and Mid-Island Realty. Dave Koszegi (Dave K) is always the first person to approach us about supporting the Spring Thaw each year. As we sit writing this, it seems to us that it was at registration for the 2014 event that Dave K smiled his traditional huge smile and confirmed “we’re doing this again next year, right?!” Mid-Island Realty loads up our prize table each year like it’s a Christmas Tree for the whole event, helps to fill your schwag bag with items you really want to keep and use, and (most importantly) reminds us often how excited everyone is for another year of adventures. Whether you’re looking for a home on the island, or elsewhere, it would be wise to call up Dave Koszegi. Mention you’re a participant of the Hagerty Spring Thaw and he’ll make sure you’re well taken care of.

But wait! We’re not done yet. We have one more change we think you’re going to like, especially if you live in Seattle or Portland.

For the past few years it’s been quite popular for Vancouver-area entrants to drive their entry form up to the Classic Car Adventures office in Squamish. So popular, in fact, that we’ve had to implement a new rule where you are only allowed to drop off your personal entry, and one other. This rule was put in place to allow our friends south of the border time for their couriered entries to arrive. New for 2015 we’re also going to have a drop-off option in Seattle, and one in Portland! The time frame for each drop off is a little truncated, but if you’re able to meet-up with Warwick at either location it will save the stress of tracking your entry form via Fed-Ex! Warwick will be waiting for you at the following times and locations:

Friday, Jan 2nd
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Starbucks Coffee, Capitol Hill
1600 East Olive Way
Seattle, WA
98102

Saturday, Jan 3rd
12:00 noon to 1:00pm
Trackside Motorsports
8131 N Interstate Ave
Portland, OR
97217

…and finally, HERE are the 2015 Hagerty Spring Thaw Entry Forms!

6 thoughts on “2015 Hagerty Spring Thaw Entry Forms!

  1. Jean and Johanna Oosthuizen

    Good Morning to you
    We have completed the entry form for the spring thaw we were newbies last year and loved loved loved it so much that we drove from Williams Lake to Sqaumish on 3rd of January and hand delivered our entry form to your fiscal address. Now being that we towed a big car Hauler we could not drive into the complex and our teenager ran inside and just kindly put the entry form on your doorstep where he saw the VW Blue pickup. The weather was brutal at the time and I was wondering if you got it…and maybe it blew away in the wind. In our haste to get it to you we forgot to add a picture of our 1965 Mustang fastback. How do I send a picture to you if the car if you got the entry form .
    Sincerely
    Johanna

  2. Tony and Phyllis Bradwell

    Hi Dave.

    Happy New Year. A quick note to let you know that we have not entered Spring Thaw this year as we will be traveling. We will be on a two-week “Blues Crawl” from Memphis to New Orleans. We will be with some friends and the tour Includes a platinum tour of Graceland to see a few of Elvis’s classic Caddies and we will be touring Highway 61 in a bus so won’t be too far from the spirit of the “Thaw”. We will miss being there. I hope we can take part in the fall event in the States. I pitched a couple of names from the Survey Monkey. Take care. Tony

  3. duane crandall

    Apparently I’m far too late for the spring thaw event but want to attend the fallfreeze. If I send you money now can I get in? Hpoe to drive the XK150S in Robert’s shop but if not possess other suitable cars.

  4. Dave Hord Post author

    Hi Duane,
    If you send us a Spring Thaw application (form only), you’ll be added to the pre-sell list for the Fall event. It’s a bit too early to start receiving entry forms for it, but wait-list guests on the Spring Thaw will have first crack.
    -Dave

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