Gordon Bennett Rally 2022
Conor Twohill and Chris Foley flying club colours at Gordon Bennett Rally for the 1915 Ford Model T Tourer.
All cars in this event were pre 1930.
1915 Ford Model T Tourer
Best of Luck to Club Members Chris Foley and Conor Twohill who are competing in the this event tomorrow in Conor ‘s 1915 Ford Model T Tourer.
All cars in this event are pre 1930.
2022 Gordon Bennett Run
Club members Chris Foley (Club Webmaster) and Conor Twohill Newtowndshandrum Charleville Cork will compete in the 2022 Gordon Bennett run in a 1915 Ford Model T tourer. This event is a competitive event for cars up to 1930 and takes place on Saturday 11 June.
Conor Twohill is son of the late Tom Twohill founder member of Kvvccc Club and first club president in 1979. Few vintage enthusiast have done this event due to it being a 1930 cut off. The event was last done by former club chairman Fintan Foley and the late club president and founding member PJ O Riordan in 2010, the pair also having competed in 2009 and 2010.Red Model T
Car brief history – It is an Irish car, discovered in ballyvaughan Co. Clare in the 60”s as a barn find restored by Tom Byrne in Wicklow in the 70’s, changed hands a few times later and my father purchased it in 1985 from John Moloney in limerick and it’s been in our family since. Was off the road then for 20 years until I got it going again in 2005 and has been very active since then.
New Instagram Account
Alan Fitzell has create a new Instagram account for us. He quotes:
“I have made an Instagram page for the club… Some are on Instagram more are not…
Anyone should …great pictures of cars if you follow the right accounts
On Instagram just type in kvvccc
And you will find us …
Something I’ll be updating as much as possible for our great and mighty club
Safe driving until then.”
Thanks Alans
40th Anniversary of the KVVCCC Interview Radio Kerry
The KVVCCC club members had a interview on the Saturday Supplement Show 2nd of March 2019 on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the KVVCCC.
Trevor Mitchel’s Memoirs
Vintage cars, its an interesting hobby, it brings people of all ages and from all walks of life together. For some people the idea of having an old car and going to a run or show at the weekend is a way of meeting people and passing the time. For others, they may have lusted after a certain make of car when they were new but could never get one and now they can fulfill their dream of having such a car and then there is people like me who never knew any thing different.
From an early age I was being taken to vintage events by my parents, in 1976 my parents John and Joan Mitchell took me, aged 4 and my brother alan aged 6 weeks in their newly restored Armstrong siddeley to our first vintage rally. And so it all started there, in the first few years we went to rallies all over the country as there was only a few clubs around and nothing in kerry until 1979 when the kingdom vintage and veteran car club was formed.
I do remember those early days of the club when we would take part in the Rose of Tralee Festival Parade and then we would go to Banna beach and camp out for the night.
When the Ring of Kerry Run started we would meet up at the airport in Farranfore before heading off on the day long trip around the Ring.
Through the years we stayed at different hotels on the Ring such as the Butler Arms Hotel in Waterville where Charlie Chaplin stayed. Then there was the newly built Waterville Beach Hotel complete with a swimming pool, something an 8 year old like me had never seen before except on tv. I saw the same hotel some years ago and was very dissapointed to see it derelict and ready to be demolished, later on we then stayed in the Derrynane Hotel which was a regular stopping point for many years.
As im writing this there are lots more memories being awakened in my mind of those early years of vintage rallying so it’s no surprise that vintage cars are such a major part of my life now.
I still enjoy going to vintage runs and shows even though a lot has changed since those early days of the club. It still can be a family day or even a weekend out. I’m glad to say my new family are enjoying our old cars as much as I did all those years ago, hopefully there are many more years to come.