Coachmakers’ Car Club events 2026

The Coachmakers’ Car Club has announced its events for members in 2026.

These events are of course open to any Coachmaker Liveryman or Freeman. Should you wish to attend please join the Coachmakers’ Car Club for the small sum of £10 payable on an annual basis. Subscriptions will contribute to the 350th fund.

Please note that for certain Car Club events on the Events page of the website, the dates are indicative only. Further details will be announced in due course.

‘Tulip’ rally

‘Tulip’ rally with fun and easy to follow(!) mapbook (example as below) around the Surrey/Sussex countryside, in your lovely car (doesn’t have to be a classic) meeting early at a Surrey garden centre for coffee/tea and bacon sandwiches and arriving (hopefully!) after a wonderful tour following the mapbook, for a late BYO picnic lunch together. Friends welcome as passengers also.

Spring 2026, date tbc.

Goodwood Members’ Meeting 18th April

Each year at the Members’ Meeting, the iconic Goodwood Motor Circuit plays host to incredible grids of racing machines, from classic tin-tops and GTs, to motorcycles and open-wheeled Formula 3 and F1 machines. In 2025, we enjoyed spectacular demonstrations such as: the first competitive GT3 Shoot-Out, the running of the Cadillac Hertz Team Jota WEC Hypercar, and a tribute to Ayrton Senna with his first Grand Prix winning Lotus 97T driven by his nephew Bruno Senna. CCC get together for those who have tickets through their GRRC membership.

BYO fizz and bites.

Visit to Portmeirion

Portmeirion is an Italian-style village in North Wales, designed by architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975. It is known for its unique architecture, and coastal scenery in Snowdonia, and as the filming location for the TV show The Prisoner. The village features colorful buildings, two hotels (one of which we will stay in for one night), shops, restaurants, and extensive gardens and woodlands to explore. The following day we will have a tour on the Welsh roads, before leaving for home. Late Spring 2026, date tbc.

Haynes Motor Museum

A tour of Haynes Motor Museum with an opportunity to visit The Sherborne and Sherborne Abbey. The Haynes International Motor Museum is the UK’s largest collection of the greatest cars from around the world with more than 400 amazing cars and bikes from the dawn of motoring in the late 1800s through nostalgic classics of the 1950s and 1960s, glorious Bentley and Rolls-Royce models to world-renowned supercars such as the Jaguar XJ220. We will have a dedicated tour and the opportunity should some of us be overcome with the extend of the display, to visit The Sherborne and Sherborne Abbey.

Autumn 2026, date tbc.

Hampton Court Concours of Elegance

The Concours of Elegance on 5th September 2026 will once again bring together a selection of 80 of the rarest cars from around the world – many of which will never have been seen before in the UK.

Uniquely, the Concours of Elegance winner isn’t selected by a panel of judges but by the owners of the cars themselves. Complementing the Concours of Elegance will be displays of hundreds of other fine motor cars, including entrants to The Club Trophy. Now in its 12th year, The Club Trophy sees some of the UK’s most prestigious car clubs offering up their finest examples to an independent panel of judges. The winning Club Trophy car will secure a place in the following year’s main Concours of Elegance event. Maybe it is the turn of the Coachmakers’ Car Club this year? As usual the highlight will be our now famous long picnic lunch!

100 years of Brands Hatch

The UK’s Brands Hatch circuit will celebrate 100 years of competition in 2026 with a programme of demonstrations, displays and guest appearances. Set in a natural bowl amid the rolling Kent countryside, Brands Hatch began life as a mushroom field before evolving into one of Britain’s most significant race venues, initially for Motorcycle racing. Once the surface was asphalted in the early 1950s, Brands Hatch began to stage events for both bikes and cars.

During the next 75 years, Brands Hatch hosted everything from club meetings to Formula 1, the World Sportscar Championship and WorldSBK – including European and British Grands Prix won by the likes of Jim Clark, Niki Lauda and Nigel Mansell.

To mark the centenary in 2026, circuit operator MotorSport Vision’s Century of Power programme will centre on a raft of historic race meetings.

More details will be available in the new year together with CCC participation and exact dates.