Alamance Region AACA Car Club

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2024 Alamance Region Antique Auto Show – May 18, 2024

Join us on Saturday May 18, 2024 in Downtown Burlington at the Historic Depot for our 52nd Annual Antique Auto Show.  Online Registration is open, and will save you $5.00!

ONLINE REGISTRATION

Judging Classifications

SHOW FLYER

Sponsor form for Alamance Region 2024 Antique Auto Show

 

2023 Web Sponsors

Jim Shaw

July 30, 1938 — March 23, 2024     Alamance Region member Jim Shaw passed away on the morning of Saturday, March 23.  The funeral service will be held at 1 PM on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at Bellemont Methodist Church with Dr. Richard D. Booker officiating. The burial will follow at Alamance Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 PM on Friday, March 29, 2024 at Lowe Funeral Home & Crematory. 

 

Upcoming Events

Next meeting will be on Saturday,  April 13 at the Leland Little Auction facility in Hillsborough.  We will attend the Carbs & Carburetors cruise-in (coffee and doughnuts) starting at 9:00 am, followed by a tour of the Leland Little facility and inventory.  We will have a business meeting at 12:00 noon inside the Leland Little facility, followed by lunch on your own in your choice of restaurants in Hillsborough.  We will meet at 8:30 AM at the Buffaloe Lanes bowling alley in Mebane (103 S. Fifth St, Mebane) to tour down to Hillsborough.  You can also meet us at Leland Little separately if it suits your schedule better.  The address for the auction site is 620 Cornerstone Court, Hillsborough, NC 27278

AACA National Events (see aaca.org for details)

April 4-6, 2024 – Charlotte, NC – Southeastern Spring Nationals and Grand National, sponsored by AACA Hornets Nest Region

June 9-13, 2024 – Fredericksburg, Virginia – Eastern Divisional Tour – sponsored by AACA Buzzards Breath Region. Open to vehicles up through 1999. 

June 20-22, 2024 – Saratoga, New York – Eastern Spring Nationals, sponsored by AACA Saratoga Region

July 10-13, 2024 – Big Horn Mountain, Wyoming – Western Divisional Tour, sponsored by AACA Nebraska Region. Open to vehicles up through 1999.

August 22-24, 2024 – Hampton, Virginia – Special Eastern Fall Nationals, sponsored by AACA Historic Virginia Peninsula Region

September 12-14, 2024 – Loveland, Colorado – Western Fall Nationals, sponsored by AACA Poudre Valley Region –

September 22-27, 2024 – Fairfield, Pennsylvania – Revival AAA Glidden Tour®, sponsored by the AACA Sugarloaf Mountain Region

October 8-11, 2024 – Hershey, Pennsylvania – Eastern Fall Nationals, sponsored by AACA Hershey Region

October 23-26, 2024 – Huntsville, Alabama – Southeastern Fall Nationals, sponsored by AACA North Alabama Region

Local Events:

Second Saturdays of each Month – Cars & Coffee, 697 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC
First Saturdays of each Month (Apr – Oct), 4 – 6 pm, AutoZone/Sonic, 1509 E. 11th St, Siler City, NC
April 7 – Mt. Gilead Cruise-In, 109 N. Main St, Mt Gilead, NC
April 13 – Reidsville Car Show (10 – 3), Clayton Homes, 1131 Freeway Dr, Reidsville, NC
April 13 – Old Salem Chapter Meet, 505 Nelston St, Kernersville, NC
May 4 – Coastal Plains Chapter Meet, Washington, NC
May 11 – First Capital Chapter Meet, New Bern, NC
May 18 – Alamance Region Antique Auto show, The Historic Depot, 200 N. Main St, Burlington, NC
May 18 – RedOak Cruise In – 6905 Konica Dr, Whitset, NC.  Starts 12 noon.
May 18 – NC Region Spring Meet, 310 S. Academy St, Cary NC
June 1 – San-Lee Chapter Meet, Sanford, NC
June 8 – Three Rivers Chapter Meet, Eden, NC
August 3 – Zooland Region Meet, Ashboro, NC
August 10 – General Greene Chapter Meet, Piedmont Triad Farmers Market, Colfax, NC
Sept 14 – NC Region Fall Meet, Spencer, NC

 

RECENT ACTIVITIES

March 9:  Our monthly meeting was held at the Shiloh Presbyterian Church Scout Hut.  We discussed our upcoming show in May, as well as our recent purchase of land to build a new clubhouse on.  Exciting times ahead!

March 1:  We close on the purchase of the new club property in the Village of Alamance! 

February 10 at Kimber’s Steakhouse.  We had our monthly meeting at Kimber’s Steakhouse (230 W. Main St, Gibsonville).   Great meal, great fellowship

AACA National Convention was Feb 8 – 10 in Chantilly, VA. Seminars, trade show, AACA Library and AACA Merchandise, plus all of the annual special awards!  What a great time!

January 12 & 13   NC Region Annual Meeting & Seminars, Raleigh, NC.    Several Alamance Region members attended, including Elizabeth and Larry Coble, Rick, Richard, Judy, and Hannah Holmes, Stuart Brandt, and Bill Cox (pulling double duty!).  Our own Stuart Brandt presented  “When is a Jeep not a Jeep?”  (When it is a Ford GPW of course!).  Hannah Holmes won the ladies division of the popular “What Is It?” contest, identifying several automotive related items.  We all enjoyed the National Judging Class and CJE classes put on by Dain King.

Rick’s Model A update: Engine is out!  Richard Holmes shows Rick and Matt how to determine if it needs honing or boring…  Needs boring,  of course! 

 

December 16 Cruise in at Holly Hill Mall benefiting Sam’s Wish Kids Fund at Authoracare.

October 14 – Scavenger hunt, with a sweet ending!  We had a great time chasing down the history trivia in and around Burlington and Alamance County!  We all made it to Homeland Creamery for our meeting (and ice cream!).

  • Henry gives instructions for the Scavenger Hunt

Sept 16 – NC Region Fall Meet – NC Transportation Museum, Spencer NC

51st Alamance Region Antique Auto Show

2023 Show Sponsor Poster

May 13, 2023     This was our last regular meeting at our Clubhouse.   We had a great turnout, and enjoyed a slideshow of some of the early days of the club and the clubhouse and shows.

 

March 11, 2023     Our March meeting took place at Butch McKenzie’s garage, where we enjoyed seeing his collection and checking out his benchtop electroplating process.  We had a great turnout, and enjoyed each others company.  Looking forward to more garage tours this summer!

5/21- Alamance Region 50th Annual Car Show.

Our 50th Annual Antique Car Show was held on May 21, 2022 in Downtown Burlington, NC.  We had a great time checking out all of the beautiful vehicles at the show, and the weather was fantastic! 

We would like to thank all of the sponsors that made our show possible!  Please take visit our sponsors and mention that you saw their ad on our website.  Sponsorship supports the show and club expenses, as well as a $1000 scholarship to the Automotive Program at Alamance Community College each year! 

 

Charlie Humble and Gage Hutchins loving the rumble seat!

 

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2019 Hospice Car Show

2019 Alamance Region Car Show

May 18, 2019, Downtown Burlington/Historic Depot

 

2019 Zooland Car Show

Aug 3, 2019, Downtown Asheboro

 


Join us on the second Saturday of the month (typically) with a covered dish dinner. Afterwards we have a program related to cars and plenty of fellowship and car stories!