Greg Harper of Breakfast Television visited the Vancouver Auto Show on Friday, April 1st. You can watch the full video Clip here. At about 3 minutes in, Greg talks to Nigel Matthews of Hagerty about the very rare 1959 Jensen 541-R, which was a big...
Tom Johnston's 1990 Canadian Formula Atlantic Champion Ralt RT4 was one of the many star attractions at the Vancouver International Auto Show, which ran from March 29th to April 3rd at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Racing fans were very pleased to hear that the famous car is being...
VRCBC members Manny and Linda Zumm are long time volunteers at all of the road racing events at Mission; Manny as a Track Marshall and Linda with Driver Services. Linda has always been a great help with Driver Services at our BC Historic Motor Races. Linda...
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The Club held its February General Membership Meeting at Intermeccanica Custom Coach Builders in Vancouver ( www.intermeccanica.com ). Paula Reisner gave a fascinating presentation on the history of the company that she built with her husband, Frank, who passed away in 2001. Intermeccanica was founded in Turin in 1959 and eventually moved to Vancouver in 1981. The company's first projects included speed equipment and one of the first rear-engined Formula Juniors. Over the years, they have produced a wide variety of specialty vehicles; many of which, such as the Apollo and the Indra were immediately recognized by Club members. In recent years, production has been focussed on their Speedster replica, in its many forms. The entire company story is well told on the company website.
Henry Reisner, the president of Intermeccanica, then walked us through the entire process of building their very impressive, high performance cars. A big thank you to Intermeccanica from the VRCBC!
And if you want to see another story of the tour with some really excellent photos, check out our friend Carl Jarrett's blog on the SpeedHunter site here.