The Vintage Motor Car Club of America

A Message from the President

- posted July 2, 2025

Summer is in full swing! By now I am sure that many of us have taken advantage of the season to get out and enjoy all the great things that our hobby has to offer. Trish and I have a tour or two under our belts and are marking off the days until we load up the old car and embark on another old car adventure.

If you haven’t done so already, I’d like to suggest you stuff a couple of our VMCCA brochures in your glove box or door pocket. They sure come in handy when people ask you about the car clubs you belong to and, hopefully, how they can join. If you don’t have any, contact your regional director or any national officer and they will get you as many as you might need.

Wearing club apparel like polo shirts, ball caps, and jackets is another great way to introduce people to our club. I usually wear a polo shirt and ball cap displaying the VMCCA logo during all of our tours and also sport them when I attend one of the seemingly endless “cruise nights” now being held somewhere locally every night of the week. Marilyn Talbot presents us with a wide assortment of embroidered apparel and is always ready to assist the membership when club-related apparel is on your shopping list. Not sure of what she has? Contact Marilyn at mjbotal@gmail.com. Take a look at some of our club merchandise on page 49 of this issue.

Our Technical Vice President Steve Fitzgerald has been busy reorganizing the list of awards that can be presented for 2025. Any current member of VMCCA can nominate a member or a member’s car or truck of their choosing to be considered for an award. The nominating forms are available on our web page — www.vmcca.org — along with a listing of the available awards. Whenever you attend a VMCCA event and see a car you feel is worthy of a trophy, take a picture or two, find out about the ownership, and then when you have a few moments, fill out the form (on page 43) and send it along with your pictures to Steve.

In closing, I would like to suggest that almost all of us know of at least one club member whom we haven’t seen in a while. There may be a very simple reason why you haven’t seen them, but the fact still remains if you don’t reach out and check on them, you may never know. Reach out and let them know they are missed. I am sure you will bring a smile to their face when you do.

Be safe and have fun!

Duane Copley
VMCCA President