About Wairarapa Vintage Car Club

Upcoming Events:

The Wairarapa Vintage Car Club is organising a Daffodil Day Motor Show at Masterton Motorplex on Sunday, August 24. If you would like to enter your vehicle in this event, please fill out the sign-up form in the Contact Us section below. Click here to download an A4 jpg copy of the poster.

...WE NEED VOLUNTEERS to help with this year's Rex Porter Rally.

We require some club members to volunteer and help with the organising and running of this year's Rex Porter Rally, to be held on the 4th of October.

We need members who can door knock local businesses in order to procure prizes for the group winners of the rally. There are 13 classes of vehicles. Time is short, so if you have a bit of time to spare, please share it with the club. If you don’t want to door knock but would like to sponsor a prize, that too would be appreciated.

We will also need help from a few volunteers to time-keep on the day. There will be 3 time checks, 2 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon. They will also set out “silent checks”.

If you are keen to help out in any of the above roles, or in the organising stages please contact Simon O’Hara either by phone: 021 141 2332, or

I will be grateful for any help offered.

Our next club meeting is at 7pm on Monday, September 1st 2025

The Wairarapa Vintage Car Club is a club for anyone who is interested in cars, bikes & trucks that are more than 30 years old. We have our own club rooms, library and parts department in Clareville, a few minute north of Carterton.

Its parent organisation, The Vintage Car Club of New Zealand (VCC) is a national organization dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of vintage motoring. It was established in 1954, by a small group of enthusiasts in Invercargill.

By 1963 the club had more than 60 members and New Zealand won the right to host the 6th International Vintage Car Rally, further promoting the VCC and vintage motoring. In 1996 the VCC celebrated its 50th anniversary with an illustrated history book.

The VCC has now swelled to 36 branches throughout New Zealand and runs a variety of events to cater to all our members' interests.

Club Monthly Newsletter

Wairarapa VCC produces Zenith, its own monthly newsletter, to keep members up to date about current and future events. Click the cover to read the current issue.

History of the Wairarapa Vintage Car Club

On 10th February 1962 the Wairarapa AA celebrated their 50th jubilee with a run to Tauherenikau Racecourse where 36 veteran and vintage vehicles put on a picnic day parade.

The success of this event prompted a follow-up letter which was sent to all known vintage car enthusiasts in the Wairarapa, suggesting a meeting be held in March 1963 to set up a Wairarapa vintage car group. Prior to this, local vintage motoring fans had to travel out of the district to events in Wellington and Whanganui for contact with fellow enthusiasts.

This meeting led to the official formation on the Wairarapa Vintage Car Club at a second meeting held on 6 June 1968, when the inaugural committee was elected.

Wairarapa Vintage Car Club membership

If you wish to become a member, contact The Wairarapa Vintage Car Club using the Contact Us form below and request a membership application.

The Wairarapa Vintage Car Club organises tarseal trundles, rural runs, hillclimbs, swapmeets and speed events as well as regular club evenings around the country for a yarn with like minded enthusiasts. The images below are from our most recent events.

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Winter Wander

The Wairarapa's excellent Pukaha Mt Bruce Native Bird Sanctuary is enduring tough financial times at the moment so we thought we'd help them out a bit by going for a "Winter Wander" from Masterton via the back roads to Pahiatua then back down SH2 to Pukaha for lunch.

Participants paid $15 each to participate, and the Club matched this contribution and donated all of the proceeds to Pukaha.

1 Icy Winter Wander Solstice dawn

2 Ian Stewart in Farriers parking lot

3 Winter Wander instructions

4 Pukaha Mt Bruce

5 Austin in Farriers parking lot

6 More Winter Wander cars.

7 Winter Wander cars

8 Winter Wanderers

9 Pukaha Mt Bruce scenery

Here you will find all of our past newsletters, plus other items of interest to Wairarapa VCC members.
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Newsletters

Copies of the Wairarapa VCC Newsletter, from XXXX until the present.

Zenith June 2025.pdf

Zenith July 2025.pdf