Club news, July 1987

Saab Owners Club’s national weekend event is set for July 17-19 at Highmoor Farm Park, Skipton Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire. Details from Flat 2, Dorval House, Silverdale Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO1 2NH.

“Salute to Brooklands” is one of the ground exhibitions at the Tiger Club Airshow at Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey on Sunday July 26, featuring cars and motorcycles which raced at the Weybridge track. Show coordinator is Janet Ayres, 6 Woodstock Road, Croydon, Surrey CR10 1JR.

Twenty years of the Ferrari Owners Club, forty years of the marque, and the 5000th car sold in Britain are being celebrated at an international event in Cheshire on July 16-19. Centres of activity will be a hotel in Prestbury and Oulton Park Circuit.

Members and non-members alike will be welcome at the Alfa Romeo Owners Club Northern Section’s concours and gymkhana at Nostell Priory near Wakefield, West Yorkshire on July 26. Details are available from Peter Beagle, Thornbrook House, 39 Main Street, Thorner, Leeds LS14 3DX.

London’s Dorchester Hotel will be the scene of the British Automobile Racing Club’s 75th anniversary celebrations on the night of Friday October 23. Tickets for the Grand Gala Ball and Casino cost £34 for members and £36 for non-members, profits being devoted to the BARC’s rescue fund. Apply to BARC Ltd, Thruxton Motor Racing Circuit, Thruxton, Andover, Hampshire SL11 8LN.

Silverstone’s 1000km meeting on May 9 included the first round of a new championship for modified Porsches, the Autofarm Performance Porsche Club GB Challenge. Intended to be inexpensive and fun, the series will comprise five rounds, and may next year include an additional class for “exotic” Porsches. For more information, contact Josh Sadler on 02403 21112 or 044 282 7922.

Amateur enthusiasts in the United States have founded the Monoposto Register, whose declared purpose is to preserve, restore, exhibit and race authentic pre-1970 single-seaters. The Register will organise race series for various classes of cars and will sponsor the 1987 North American Formula Junior Championship.

Lancia Motor Club holds its Annual General Meeting on Sunday July 5 in New Brighton. A full programme of events for the weekend includes a tour of Port Sunlight and formal dinner in Birkenhead on the Saturday, and concours and driving tests on the Sunday afternoon.