Quad City British Auto Club

[ Autofest 2009 ] [ Events Calendar ] [ Classified ] [ Links ] [ Photos ]

According to the Dispatch on Sunday Sep 9, 1984,  there was a British car show on the levee in LeClaire Park, Davenport. The weather was uncooperative but there were 35 cars on display. Some of the cars shown were a '50 MG TF, Jaguar XKE, '67 Austin Cooper Mini S and a '46 MG TC. The show was sponsored by the Quad-Cities MG Club. Also, it said that some members of the organization are thinking about starting a local British car club.  The Quad-City British Auto Club was organized in 1987 and the current president was Darrel McNeil. The club was organized by Tim Moore, an MG owner, and Bob Kirk, a Jaguar owner. Both belonged to separate car clubs for specific makes of British cars, but because both club meetings were sparsely attended, the men decided to combine owners of different types of British cars into one larger group. It also provides a wider base of information for finding parts sources, repair information and restoration services. 

The club was also formed to promote interest, and usage of any, and all British cars.  We do this through events that we hold throughout the year.  Every month, we hold a dinner social meeting at various locations in the Quad-Cities area.  We have other events such as organized drives in the country-side.   For information on joining our club, go here.  

Our premier event is one that we have held for around 20 years (at least), and that would be the Heartland British Autofest.  It is held right around the 2nd weekend in August.   Our local NBC affiliate, KWQC has even been nice enough to invite us to be a part of their Saturday morning show on several occasions.

On Saturday, we generally do a drive and dinner.  Sunday we do the auto show and it is held in the Village of East Davenport, IA. Judging is be done by the participants. Along with the class awards there is be a Best of Show and Long Distance award.

The Village of East Davenport offers local pubs in which you can have your favorite beverage and good food. Also, there are many local shops in which you may browse and possibly find that unique item that you have been looking for.

In 1999, the weather was excellent on Saturday, and Sunday.  Attendance was down a little, but that would most likely be attributed to the Healy groups meet in the Devil's Head Lake area.  In 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2004 the weather was downright fantastic!  In 2003, the weather was hot and humid, but thankfully there was no rain.  In 2005, the summer had been VERY hot and humid.  Luckily, the weather changed a couple of days before our event, so the weather again was excellent.  We had a nice turn-out, with my guess being somewhere around 80 cars.  I base this guess on the number of pictures I took.  In 2006, it was a bit warm in the 80's.  The rain Gods were kind to us once again.  In 2007, the weather was EXTREMELY hot, in the mid-90's, with heat index over 100.  This was the hottest I can remember the weather ever being, which was most likely responsible for a slightly lower event attendance.  We were lucky, because 2008 was absolutely gorgeous, with a nice breeze, and temperature right around 80 degrees.  2009 was warm, with temperatures around 93, but it was quite breezy, with southwest winds between 15 and 25mph.  That breeze made the heat a lot more bearable.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I've changed a few things with the urls of our 2007 and 2006 photo archive sites, 
so if you had them book marked, you may want to change them.

Pictures of the 2008 Autofest are temporarily unavailable.... for pictures from the 2007 Autofest, go here.... for pictures from 2006 Autofest, go here.  For even older pictures of past events, no longer found on any of these sites, go to our other archive site, by clicking here.  The larger versions of pictures from 1999 and 2000 have been removed due to storage space constraints.  It is a free space, so get ready for pop ups/unders!

=====================================================

For more information on the Quad-City British Auto Club, 
go here for a membership application, or contact us by USPS mail:

Quad City British Auto Club
C/O  Colette Bishop 
3540 - 160th Street
Muscatine, IA  52761

You can now even follow us on Facebook! 

Or, contact: Colette at daveandcolette(at)gmail.com or, e-mail Ed, the person responsible for this site. To contact us by e-mail, and help reduce the amount of spam we get, you will have to manually type our e-mail address, substituting the @  symbol where I have typed (at): qcbac(at)mchsi.com  - Thanks for your help and interest!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This site was last updated in January, 2010 by me

Go to Top of page