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Basingstoke Classic Car Club
Passionate about cars
Next Social Evening - Wednesday 18th May
Next Event - 14th June - Hartley Wintney Show
BCCC Picture Gallery
Thornycroft Festival of Transport - Bacon rolls and coffee anyone?
Thornycroft Festival of Transport - First outing for the new club gazebo
Thornycroft Festival of Transport - Club cars on the stand - 1
Thornycroft Festival of Transport - Club cars on the stand - 2
Thornycroft Festival of Transport - Club cars on the stand - 3
Thornycroft Festival of Transport - Members enjoying cakes and a chat
Drive It Day to Lepe Country Park assembly @ Milestones
Drive It Day to Lepe Country Park assembly @ Milestones
Drive It Day to Lepe Country Park assembly @ Milestones - last minute adjustments
Drive It Day to Lepe Country Park - Destination
Drive It Day to Lepe Country Park - Destination
Drive It Day to Lepe Country Park - Getting ready for lunch
Drive It Day to Lepe Country Park - Supervision for the fire-raiser
BCCC Stand @ Hartley Wintney Show
Calling All Local Classic Car Enthusiasts
Do you own or have an interest in Classic Cars?
If so why not join us at Basingstoke Classic Car Club (or BCCC).We are a very active club of around 60 members who have variety of classic cars which we love to drive to shows and trips out. We even go on long weekends away and have toured parts of Europe and
If this and much more interests you, why not come along and see if you like us; we have monthly meetings at the Moose Centre,
Check out our events page and come along and join us.
You can contact us on email at info@basingstokeclassiccarclub.com
No classic car required - just a sense of humour
Apologies but our site is currently undergoing revision (April 2008), please keep coming back as it should change daily. Thanks for your patience - Kevin Newell (Webmaster)
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CLUB HISTORY
Sometime in 1991 three friends, Andy Hopkins, Kevin Chuck and Jeff (does anybody know his surname?) were talking classic cars in their local pub, one of them had noticed that an Andy Smallbone from Basingstoke had asked a question in ‘Practical Classics’ and an idea was hatched that if they could find Andy the four of them might form a Classic Car Club. They looked through the local telephone directory looking for A. Smallbone there weren’t very many and Andy was soon contacted and agreed to meet the others. Things went well and they formed The Basingstoke Classic Car Club.
The first meetings were held in The Beacon Pub, South Ham. At that time Andy was working as a painter and decorator at the Met. Office in Bracknell
The club soon grew to about 10 - 15 members and the pub became too small, so they moved to Hook Cricket Club’s Pavilion in about 1992. They got someone to open the bar for them on club nights and in return Andy redecorated the pavilion from top to bottom free of charge!
Over the next year or so the membership grew, Colin Stretton, Alf Wagner and Trevor Burrows had joined by this time and Trevor being a postman gained the use of the Post Office Club for their meetings, as the Cricket Pavilion was less than ideal at times. The P.O. Club proved to be an ideal venue for meetings with plenty of room for the growing membership. Big Trev counted over 70 people at one meeting there! The club continued to meet there for about 8–9 years until due to circumstances beyond the club’s control we had to find alternative accommodation.
A temporary home was found in the skittle alley of the White Heart at Sherfield-on-Loddon. This was not ideal but beggars can’t be choosers and we were there for a few months. Our next move was to the newly opened Milestones Museum
Next we moved to Sainsbury’s Griffin Social Club for a few months but this too was not ideal because we had to share with Sainsbury’s employees as we had no designated room. From here we moved to the Moose Hall courtesy of Ted where we remain to this day.
The Club has helped out with the marshalling of cars for many years at the Thornycroft Show where Bob Topliss was legendary for his informative commentaries. The Club also organises the Classic Vehicle involvement at Popham Wings and Wheels and The Hartley Wintney Show each year.
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