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The VSCCA was founded on December 14th, 1958. Founded in Boston, it was the brainchild of a group of Sports Car enthusiasts interested in a club focusing on the cars, their history, preservation, and use.   Several of these enthusiasts had also been founders of the Sports Car Club of America just over ten years earlier. They had watched that club evolve towards one more focused on competition than on the cars themselves. It appears they resolved to remedy this situation by creating a new club, the Vintage Sports Car Club of America (VSCCA). The impetus for the founding came from two mid-fifties events that brought American and British enthusiasts together for what was called the Anglo-American Vintage Car Rallies. In 1954 a group of Americans took their cars to the UK to be guests of the British Vintage Sports Car Club (VSCC), and in 1957, the Americans hosted the British. Exposure to the VSCC in the UK served to encourage the Americans’ enthusiasm, and from that enthusiasm came the founding of the VSCCA.

Initially, the club was focused on prewar cars, but soon, those of the early fifties were made welcome. As the club grew, the Officers and Board of Directors realized that the VSCCA would need to work hard to stay true to the founders’ vision.

Over time a calendar of events evolved with an effort to offer activities for all interests within the club and to ensure that wheel-to-wheel racing events would be kept low-key and sporting as well as ensuring that they would not come to redefine the club itself.
As the vintage racing movement grew up in the United States, often in the wake of the VSCCA’s successes, the club decided that one of the best ways to keep its traditions vibrant was to maintain the focus on the cars that were available in the earliest days of the club, prewar and postwar through the fifties.
Now, nearly sixty-five years after its founding, the VSCCA continues to offer its members a balanced calendar of events, be they over the road, on the slopes of various hillclimb venues, and on racing circuits.  Additionally, this commitment to the club’s identity has made the VSCCA now about the only club in the United States that keeps the prewar and postwar fifties sports cars active without mixing in the confusion of more modern cars that could significantly change the dynamics of our events. We choose to stay firmly rooted in those earlier days when driving sports cars was still a romantic adventure.
In 1958 the founders of the club chose to keep its ambiance romantic. We, many of whom have come later to their vision, have come for the romance.
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