Classic Car Adventures

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

1903 Peerless owned by Bonhams CEO, Malcolm Barber, journeys back to Colorado to be reunited with the family of its original owner.

Frantic flagmen, haybales for safety (kinda), and lots of excitement in this 8mm filmstrip from Northern Californian SCCA racing in 1965.

Warwick has posted photos from today’s action at the Westwood 50th races on his website. More to come on Sunday…are you coming too?

This is your Friday reminder to top up the fluids, fix that electrical fault, and drive out to Mission, BC for this weekend’s “Westwood 50” vintage races! Fifty years ago this month, Canada’s first dedicated road race course opened near Vancouver, and provided lots of world-class racing entertainment until real estate development took over in [...]

With the Westwood 50th Reunion coming up, I recently stumbled across this great video on YouTube featuring a lap of Westwood with Sterling Moss. Westwood Racing Circuit was Canada’s first purpose-built road race track, and was located in Coquitlam. Sadly, the track is long gone, but you can still see vintage cars in action, and [...]

I stopped in at the Vancouver All British Field Meet today to drool over cars and play the “what will I buy when I win the lottery” game! I ran into some fellow Spring Thaw’ers there, some of whom were still sporting their Spring Thaw number plates – thanks!  In the vendor area, I picked [...]