Registering A Classic Car

[GrayRider]

I have joined the AACA,and paid my first years dues,currently waiting for my new member card in the mail.

In the meantime I want to ask about three Thunderbirds I have and another one is coming to me from Tampa to Tucson.

I have two 69's/one 71 and a 73 Bird I just bought and is currently being shipped to me.

So I want to ask can I register these cars with AACA?,unless these cars are not old enough to be registered with AACA?.

If they can be registered how do I do this here on line at aaca.org after I get my new membership card in the mail.

Thanks for any further info

GrayRider

[ex98thdrill]

Are you talking about showing your cars or licensing them <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

We have a 25 year rule for AACA. At this point anything built in 1982 and before is eligible to participate in AACA events. With that in mind, your cars meet the criteria.

As for the licensing, that will be up to your home state.

[D Binger]

Gray Rider

Contact BIll Schoening, Al Eichelberger or Peter Garaphy. All live in the Tucson area and would be able to help you with the answers you need. They also belong to the Tucson Region of AACA and would be more than happy to help get you into the local club. The Tucon Region would be a good group to belong to.

Dan

[GrayRider]

Thanks for the reply's

Probably I would be talking about licensing the cars,but I would be showing the cars as well.I did call the DMV here in Tucson,but i didn't get to much out of them.They did ask if i was and are the cars registered with what they call Classic Car Club of America(CCCA),i'm not sure who these people are since the one here is AACA and not sure what the difference is between clubs.I would think the results should be the same to put classic or antique tags on the cars here in Tucson?.

As far as getting in contact with Bill Schoening or Peter Garaphy,i will try to locate them.I did join the Tucson Region of the AACA,almost two weeks ago,and paid the first years dues,but haven't heard from them since,and still waiting for a membership card from them as well.

So at the moment I'm not sure if I can put what may be called Classic tags or Antique tags on these cars here in Tucson and what the rules are?.

I will try to get in touch with the two persons mentioned,but I do not see Bill Schoening on the list of officers here at the Tucson region of the AACA.

THX

GrayRider

[Peter J.Heizmann]

GrayRider...Welcome to the AACA Forum and Club.

I will send Peter Gariepy an e-mail to take a look at your post. (Not my place to give his phone number)

Regards,

PJH... <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Peter Gariepy]

GrayRider,

Give me a call anytime.

Peter Gariepy

AACA Tucson Region member

520-991-7940

[GrayRider]

Thanks for the reply's

I will be talking to Peter in a little while.I just tried to call him.i will wait until after he eats dinner,sure don't want to interupt that,ha

GrayRider

[Packard enthus.]

Welcome to the used car hobby! If you like calling your cars "antiques" and "classics", that is your RIGHT - dont let anyone tell you what to do !

Your above sentence "what they call the Classic Car Club Of America" indicates you are not clear on the distinctions between the CCCA and the AACA. In terms of us all being nuts about used cars, WE ARE ALL THE SAME CRAZY BUNCH ! Most of us like ALL used cars, and thus are members of many old car clubs.

There WERE some differences in earlier times in the focus of the two groups, but that should not concern anyone these days.

Let me give you an example - yesterday, I was at the big Barnes and Noble book-store, where I looked at a copy of Quentin Wilson's very pretty book entitled ULTIMATE CLASSIC CARS. He states on P. 10 "THIRTY YEARS AGO THE CLASSIC CAR HADNT BEEN INVENTED".. and goes on to say about older cars "THEY WERE JUST THE PROVINCE OF THE LUNATIC FRINGE, BEARDED WITH GREASE UNDER THEIR FINGERS" . . . " THE FIRST USE OF THE WORD 'CLASSIC CAR' WAS IN OCTOBER 1973"...(describing post World War Two cars (meaning for describing cars built after 1945).

Quentin Wilson's beautiful books ( he has a number out on his idea of CLASSIC CARS ) arent the only ones that will assure you it is perfectly proper to refer to used cars as CLASSICS or ANTIQUES.

Occasionally, you may hear some grizzled old fool like me muttering about all this, because we come from a different era with differnt priorities. But we will be gone sooner or later, so dont worry - in a few dozen years there shouldn't be anyone around to smirk at the current practice.

So dont pay any attention to those of us who think an "antique" car is one that has "antique" features, meaning prior to the 1920's. There was a time when people felt the Model "A" Fords, with their four wheel internal expanding brakes, on-board electrical systems, (as distinguished from the carbide gas lights of "true" antique" cars, and self-starters

were NOT welcome in antique car clubs - they were way too "modern" to be called "antiques", and way too ordinary to be called "classics".

There was a time when people used the word "classic" car to refer only to the largest, most luxurious, fastest, most elegant and most powerful cars of the ultra rich, built between 1925 and 1942.

But again, it is a free country, and with more and more "experts" like those discussed above changing history, YOU are in the majority, and YOU will be making the policy decisions for the car clubs.

So dont let anyone tell you your used cars are not "antique classics"! My 1971 Toyota Corona is already an "antique", and so is my 2001 Toyota RAV 4 (well...it will be, under AACA Rules).

Especially dont listen to those old fools who think the Classic Car Club Of America has been going strong since 1952 !

And if you happen to blast by on a hot day, on a modern freeway, with your air conditioning going, some old nut driving a car built before 1942 - wave...because he or she WILL wave back - regardless of what we call our used cars, we are all alike in wanting to enjoy them and share them with our friends !