Australian Historic Motor Club- Blue Mountains
The club was formed in about 1977 by Ross McRae, Eric North, Alan Fidler and a Mr Sutherland. At the time the people mentioned were members of the Australian Historic Motor Club in Sydney and found attending meetings in Sydney to be difficult. They therefore asked and received permission to create a Branch in the Blue Mountains and at that point the Australian Historic Motor Club - Blue Mountains Branch was born.
The history of the AHMC Sydney was created from 3 men whose names are John Johnston, John Curtain and Bruce Cooper. Together, they formed the 30-40 Car Club, with the meetings being held at the Australian Hotel in 1967.
Not long after the membership of their club started to grow and with much more modern cars, it was felt there was a need to change the name of club from the 30-40 Club to AHMC to more reflect the vehicles involved. These organizations were created by these men to gather together like-minded car lovers for social outings. The Car Club registration at the time was a nice benefit of membership but not the reason why these people came together.
The AHMC-BM is set up to bring together people who have an interest in road-going vehicles more than 25 years old
- To promote the restoration and preservation of such vehicles
- To foster friendship and co-operation by meeting together and participating in organised events
- To promote interest in and use of vehicles which come within the interest of the Club
- To assist members, where possible by their use of the Club library
For more information, our club website is at – ahmc-bm.org.au
Ronald Dixon
