Irish Veteran & Vintage Car Club

The IVVCC International Gordon Bennett Rally Ireland^® was established by the IVVCC in 1974 and is held every June. Click on this button to visit the website:

The IVVCC represents almost 5100 old car enthusiasts in Ireland

Updated 12:04 19 May 2012

An IVVCC member is trying to trace the history of a Willys Jeep with the Dublin registration ZL 1246. If you can provide ANY information about this vehicle, no matter how little, please email webmaster@ivvcc.ie

The IVVCC is pleased to announce that Willie Bryans is taking over as webmaster, effective immediately. Willie has a great deal of experience in I.T. and you can expect a structurally and visually improved website in due course.

John Larkin will remain active on the website to assist Willie for a transitional period.

You can email Willie and John at webmaster@ivvcc.ie (16th May 2012)

The 2012 IVVCC Opel Spring Rally was held over the weekend of the 12th and 13th of May and encompassed Russborough House, Dungarvan, Clonmel and Kilkenny (and places in between). The erstwhile webmaster (JL) begs leave to say that this was the best organised and most enjoyable IVVCC rally that he has experienced. Particular thanks are due to John Boland, Shane Houlihan, Bernadette Wyer, Paul Noctor (and family) and Paul O'Brien, and all those who marshalled to make this event a great success.

See Jim Dolan's video here:

Passage East Ferry

The Copper Coast with future Lotus owner

A desire of Vauxhalls

Mike Dennehy who did the whole route solo!

IVVCC / AXA

Insurance scheme for affiliated clubs

Myles O'Reilly of AXA, with Shane Houlihan and Tom Farrell of the IVVCC, at the signing of the contract for the new insurance scheme for affiliated clubs.

Affiliate Clubs Insurance

On election to the board, club affiliate secretary Shane Houlihan expressed his desire to improve communications with our affiliate clubs by meeting with them to find out how we could represent them better. One of the main concerns being expressed by clubs is the high cost of public liability insurance around the country and how for smaller clubs this represented a significant part of their expenses. Shane presented this to the board and after speaking to a number of companies, tenders were received, which after discussion by the board led to the decision that AXA had the most appropriate offering. This offering was designed to meet the specific needs of our affiliate clubs for the events they run at a considerable saving. This was only made possible by the fact that we represent over forty clubs and AXA has a clear understanding of our needs. On Wednesday 1^st of February a contract was signed by IVVCC club president Tom Farrell and Myles O’Reilly of AXA to provide this cover exclusively to clubs affiliated to the IVVCC.

To avail of this policy, a club should contact either Shane at clubs@ivvcc.ie or Myles directly at myles.o’reilly@axa.ie

If your club is not yet affiliated to the IVVCC and you would like become a member, please contact Shane and he will start the simple process for you. We hope this will be just one of a number of initiatives that the club is working on to help keep our hobby on the road and we particularly appreciate any feedback from clubs around the country.

Founded in 1963.
Ireland's premier enthusiasts club for vehicles from the dawn of motoring up to 1984.

The IVVCC is the National FIVA Authority (ANF) for Ireland. (ANF: Autorité National FIVA)

Yesterday's vehicles on tomorrow's roads.

FIVA unites more than 1,500,000 enthusiasts in 62 countries throughout the world.

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The Irish Veteran and Vintage Car Club Limited was formed in 1963 to cater for owners of veteran and vintage vehicles and for enthusiasts who did not possess such vehicles. Vehicles catered for by the IVVCC now include post-vintage and classic cars. Cars are divided into the following classes:-

Antique: pre 1905
Veteran: 1905-1918
Vintage: 1919-1930
Post Vintage: 1931 – 1945
Classic 1946 – 1984*

*FIVA adopted a thirty year minimum age for the definition of an historic car from January 1st 2010. The IVVCC decided to adopt this in a modified form to avoid exclusion of owners of cars that were over twenty five years old but not yet thirty. The IVVCC adopted a cut-off date of 31st December 1984 which will remain in place until 31st December 2014, after which the thirty year rule will apply on a rolling basis (or whatever later rule supersedes it, if any).

The club organises rallies, monthly meetings, picnics and outings as well as publishing a quarterly journal giving club news, details of vehicles for sale, information on vehicle restoration and articles of general interest. Various club sections run events especially suited to their own interests and section are usually included in club rallies to cater for these various sections.

The Club's mission statement is:

lTo be the voice, custodian and facilitator of the historic vehicle movement in Ireland.

lTo promote and facilitate the preservation, ownership, appreciation and use of historic vehicles.

lTo promote public awareness of the historic vehicle movement.

lTo protect the regulatory environment affecting the use of historic vehicles.

PRIVACY POLICY

IVVCC respects your right to privacy and wants to make your on-line experience satisfying and safe. IVVCC does not collect any personal data about you on this Website (the "Site") apart from information which you volunteer (for example by e-mailing us). Any personal information which you provide to us in this way will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality. We use return email addresses to answer the emails we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

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Irish Veteran and Vintage Car Club Ltd, 20 Louvain, Ardilea, Dublin 14. Registered number 21485