Classic Car Adventures

On your marks. Get set. GO! The entry period for the 2012 Spring Thaw Classic Car Adventure is officially now open!

Snow is a four letter word. It was also the dominant factor that shaped the 2010 running of Totem Rally. While most crews arrived with modern all-wheel-drive Subarus or BMWs, a select group choose a different path, the Historic class.

Organized by the Classic European Car Club, the Rallye Du Chilliwack was held on Saturday, September 18th. Although the drive into the Fraser Valley was a soggy one- a deterrent for at least a few potential participants- by the time the teams completed their odometer calibration, the skies cleared and the sun came out….

The Classic European Car Club of British Columbia is hosting a fun one-day rally in the Lower Mainland in September.

Annie and Steve Norman were participants on the first Spring Thaw Adventure in 2009 in their Hudson Commodore. We received this email with info about their charity rally and thought we’d pass it along. This looks like a fun event with a competitive navigational TSD rally element. Announcing the 18th Annual Annie & Steve Norman [...]

Here’s a great bit of video from MINI, where they stick rally legends Paddy Hopkirk and Rauno Aaltonen in the new MINI convertible and send them off over the Col de Turini to reminisce about driving and rallying the old Minis. Rauno doesn’t hang about either, hitting 140kph up the switchbacks, and using plenty of [...]