Classic Car Adventures

One of the big local early-season events for classic car fans is the Vancouver All British Field Meet. This annual celebration of the British motorcar and motorbike is the largest of its kind in Western Canada, with more than 5,000 attendees and 600 vehicles displayed at the beautiful VanDusen Gardens on Saturday May 22. Hagerty Insurance will also be hosting a series of seminars called “Cars That Matter”.

As an organizer of the Spring Thaw, the days of planning, preparing, and participating merge together into one blur and my experience becomes very different from a participant’s. There are moments over the three days, however, that make me realize why I love classic cars and why its important for people to get out and drive them.

Directed by Claude Lelouch of Un Rendezvous infamy, the quirky French film, Un Homme et Un Femme, features great cars and driving scenes that will appeal to all classic car fans.

Compared to the multi-level ‘hospitality suites’ the F1 circus has now, the transporters of 1973 were little more than a shed on wheels, and the two McLaren M23 F1 cars epitomize the “wings and slicks” era.

We immerse ourselves in the atmosphere and culture of a bygone era – especially at events like Goodwood – and yet you rarely see vintage camera gear. Filmmaker Dikayl Rimmasch takes a step back in time to shoot the 2006 Rolex Invitational on vintage film cameras.

In this first installment of the Project Mini series, Warwick has reached a milestone in his first ever restoration – but will it be back on the road in time for the Spring Thaw?

Bill “Doc” Molle, dentist and war hero, was quite disillusioned when Jim Hall came along and usurped his accustomed number 66 in the West Coast events, and felt that perhaps the “big bore” boys were stealing more thunder than they deserved. Read his raw, humorous, and honest remembrance of those early days of sports car racing.