Category Archives: News & Events

Annual General Meeting (AGM) Tuesday 11th November 2014

On Tuesday we hold our AGM.  It starts at 8pm with drinks and finger food.  You have all had the agenda by email.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could all make the effort and turn up.  I know that to be an impossibility for some but please do your very best to turn up. Remember, it your club and you all have a say in it.

So this Tuesday, at the Club house in Windmill Hill premises at 8PM.

FIVA membership ratified…

Just to let all our members know that as from today The Gibraltar Classic Vehicle Association is a full member of the World Association for Classic Vehicles – FIVA “Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens”.
We were accepted by a unanimous vote by all the countries present at the FIVA AGM in Budapest. A proud day for Gibraltar and GCVA members!

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See:  http://www.fiva.org/

 

Upcoming Events (Nov – Jan)

Saturday 1st November 2014 –
Display of Classic Cars at Casemates Square.  Meet at the clubhouse, Windmill Hill as from 09.30 for those of you that may wish to have a light breakfast. (Free). At 10.45am move to Casemates to display our vehicles. Or, come straight down to Casemates at 11am. We have a permit until 4pm but you can leave when you need to.

Tuesday 11th November 2014 –
8pm at the GCVA Clubhouse in Windmill Hill. All members are urged to attend – Full details and nomination forms sent by Email.

Sunday 16th November 2014 –
Breakfast outing to Duquesa Port.  Arrangements are being made so we can park inside the port. Meeting at La Linea stadium to leave at 09.15am. If you live in Spain then make your way directly to the Port to arrive at about 10.15am. Last outing to Sotogrande Port was a great success so let’s try and make this one successful too. We will need to know if you are coming to make parking spaces available.

Saturday 6th December 2014 –
At the request of the Ministry of Culture we have been asked to exhibit our cars at Casemates Square as part of Gibraltar Business Day.  10am to 5pm. Whenever possible we like to assist the Government and this is one of them. So I will ask all members to please make the effort and come down.  Stay as long as you like but please support your Association and Gibraltar.

Friday 12th December 2014 –
Annual Christmas Dinner at Saffron Restaurant, Parliament Lane.  Menu send by email. Please fill in by putting an X on your preferred dish and return with payment to P.O. Box 538, or leave at Imperial Newsagents in Main Street for us to collect.

Monday 5th January 2015 –
Gibraltar Cavalcade. As usual we shall be providing three open cars to take Miss Gibraltar and Princesses.  If you have an open car and wish to participate please let me know.

Sunday 11th January 2015 –
New Year’s Breakfast in Gibraltar for all members that wish to come.  Meet at the clubhouse and we shall all go from there to our chosen venue. This is a friends and members get together and I ask you all to participate.

 

 

John Tewkesbury wins 2nd at the Concours D’Elegance at Jerez Historic Racing weekend

New member John Tewkesbury wins 2nd at the Concours D’Elegance at Jerez Historic Racing weekend – well done!

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Gibraltar Classic Vehicle Association on Film!

Dear Members,
Just a short note to tell all members that our local Gibraltar TV channel GBC aired a documentary recently featuring Classic Cars.  The film was taken at this year’s rally, club outings, Ocean Village and Cruise Terminal. If you missed it and the re-run, you can watch it online here:

GBC Documentary ‘My Classic Car’

OCTOBER confirmed Events…

Two days for your Calendar in October.
     Sunday 5th October  10.45 to 1500hrs.  Display of our Classics in Casemates Square.  This is a very popular event and I hope many of you will support it.   Entrance will be through Cloister Ramp and Irish Town. Meet 9.30am for breakfast at the club house or at Casemates.
  Sunday 19th October.  Another event that has always been very popular and well supported. Breakfast outing to Sotogrande Port. For those of us going from Gibraltar meet at the Spanish side by the stadium to leave latest 09.15hrs. If you are coming directly from Spain meet at Sotogrande Port at 10.15hrs.  Parking will be reserved so please let me know if you are coming so I can inform the Port authorities.
Hope to see you supporting both events if you can!

Upcoming Events – Sept/Oct 2014

One other event for the month of September.  It was decided that it would be a good idea to hold a BBQ whilst the weather is still warm.  So we decided to hold a BBQ on Sunday 14th September at the Clubhouse.  Around 12.30pm for 1pm.

Price will be £10 per head. Remember we are limited for space so if you want to come book early. Please email Stefan Nicholson nicholson6@gibtelecom.net and let him know.

October Monthly meet will be @ Saturday 4th October at Casemates Square – more details nearer the time…

 

End of Summer events

We have had a fantastic year with lots going on and good things happening to the Association.  There are still a few things going on in the background of which I hope to bring you more information soon. For some time now we have been trying to get special number to be able to show that our vehicles are of a Historical nature.

I am glad to say that yesterday this was confirmed and in future we shall have the G plate with an H at the end to show its a historical vehicle. G1001H (Example). Now before you all start asking questions let me sort out how this is going to be done. At the moment this will apply to all new vehicles. I will keep you informed as to how this will affect existing number plates.

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Your committee is now also working on the events for the rest of the year including Christmas Dinner.
Our NEXT event will be on Sunday 7th September 2014  with a display of our vehicles at Ocean Village Promenade. I hope to see many of you there supporting the Association.
Ocean Village have kindly moved the Sunday Market to accommodate us, so its now up to us to support the event. 
I wish you all a Great Summer    Click Me! and see you all in September.
Howard.

Upcoming June – July Events 2014

 Saturday 21st June 2014 – We have been invited to the annual Manilva Meet

This is a nice easy run not too far from here, meeting at Duquesa Castle for inscriptions as from 10.00am
There will be a run around the Castle area, Sabinillas and then Manilva where there will be a stop at the newly opened wine museum.
The return journey will see the cars all parked up in a square in Sabinillas where lunch is an optional 12€ at the  nearby ‘restaurante el molino’ @ 14.00hrs
Please get in touch with any committee member if you’d like to join the group going from Gibraltar. Alternatively make your own way there for 10am but do let us know.

 Saturday 5th July 2014 – Monthly meet at Casemates Square

This will be the last meeting at casemates before we break up for the summer so please make the effort and come down and have a nice breakfast in good company
while your significant others go off to browse the shops.

Ford Model T Drive from Lisbon to Lincoln

Two British pensioners and their Portuguese friend of are to drive the 2000KM in a 100 year old Model T Ford from Lisbon to Lincoln in aid of Prostate Cancer UK.

Larry Riches (longstanding GCVA member), the owner of the 100 year old Model T Ford – first registered in December 1913, his friends Dimas Pestana and Richard Barrett aim to complete the journey from Lisbon and Lincoln between 21 and 31 May 2014.  Larry Riches and Dimas Pestana are funding the drive and therefore all money collected will go to Prostate Cancer UK

History – The route takes in some of the major sites linking Portugal to England with the marriage of Philippa, daughter of John of Gaunt – the first Duke of Lancaster, to King Joao 1st of Portugal in 1387.  This marriage cemented the alliance (The Treaty of Windsor) between the two countries that survives to this day making Portugal England’s oldest ally.

Please visit their Justgiving page and make a donation if you can no matter how small. 

http://www.justgiving.com/Model-T-Drive

Larry’s Model T in Cascais