This coming weekend, February 8th and 9th, sees the annual Concours d'elegance and NZ Classic Car Show being held in the picturesque Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland.
It is a celebration of classic and marque cars - competitions based on presentation, appearance, originality and excellence. In the United States and Europe the attendance at such events is in the hundreds of thousands, the investment measured in millions.
Similar events are held at Goodwood UK, Pebble Beach USA and the famous Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este at Lake Como, Italy.
What is the Concours d'Elegance and NZ Classic Car Show?
A celebration of classic and marque cars
Competitions based on presentation, appearance, originality and excellence
The MG Car Club launched the first Intermarque Concours d'Elegance at the sunken gardens of Auckland's Cornwall Park on December 1, 1972. Then as now, the event was an inter-club affair and MG became the first winner of the Inter-Club Challenge Shield. Honours also went to Alvis, Studebaker, Jowett, Riley, and Citroen Car Clubs.
Until 1981 MG and Jaguar dominated the Cornwall Park event. Then Porsche took the Shield and moved the rapidly growing show to Ellerslie. Today over 65 car clubs, leading new vehicle dealerships, sponsors and the restoration industry support the event.
In recent years, the Mini Car Club of Auckland have won the "Best Club display" title, with their imaginative displays, and also their members' driving prowess in the Gymkhana event - known for revving engines,smoking and squealing tyres. The Mini club regularly upstages the wealthier cousin BMW Car Club of NZ, showing that bigger and more expensive is not necessarily better.
Each year thousands of car enthusiasts and those who are simply curious spend the day browsing round the displays. There are now more honours - ranging from the coveted Intermarque Team Shield to Masters Class for individual vehicles and Best Display - the theme for which this year is "Back to the Future" - with an original DeLorian car featured.
Minis
This year clubMINI NZ combines with the Mini Cooper of NZ Register in a display of Cooper and Mini Cooper cars from the past to the future.
Amongst the clubMINI NZ display cars will be a 1961 Cooper Formula Junior 1 litre racing car, a 2010 MINI John Cooper Works WC50 special edition, and a 2008 MINI John Cooper Works Clubman, and a guest appearance of MINI DOWN UNDER book author Donn Anderson, who will be selling and autographing copies of his book for Mini fans..
Vehicles not only come from around New Zealand but also the world - in 2003 for example we welcomed 27 Alvis owners and their cars from the UK.
It takes almost a year to put a show like this together. The winning club each year hosts the subsequent event with the support of other leading clubs.
Continuity, procedure and judging is overseen by TACCOC, the Thoroughbred and Classic Car Club. The organising committee meets monthly.
Vehicles displayed will range from the early '20s through to the latest modern exotics, and will vary from Micro cars through to Utes and the most exotic cars in New Zealand.
The show opens to the public on Sunday 9th February at 10.00am. We hope to see you there!
http://www.clubmini.co.nz/
http://www.concours.org.nz/
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