Director`s Welcome

 Welcome to our club web page.  It is my pleasure to serve as director of the Spirit of St. Louis Region of the Classic Car Club of America.  I am presently completing my third and final year as Regional Director.  One of the things our region does is to pass around the club leadership roles.  This facilitates the generation of new ideas, allows more people to become active in the club, and keeps us from overworking individual members. 

We are the premier car club in the St. Louis region.  Our region is centered in St. Louis and includes the eastern half of Missouri and the south western portion of Illinois.  However, we have members from all over the nation.  Many people join our region just to receive our award winning publications.  We publish a high quality glossy magazine (The Spirit) on a bi-annual basis. Our newsletter, (The Spark Plug) is published every other month. This year we added a nice wall calendar to our publications.  The calendar features a different classic each month and contains action photos of club activities that occurred on the corresponding month last year.  Samples of our publications may be viewed on our web page.

Our region has one of the largest memberships in the nation. We have approximately 140 members and continue to grow. We have never lost membership in a year since our inception.  For a large part, this is due to the fact that we are a very active club.  We average two activities per month throughout the year.  Each year we come up with new and exciting ideas.  For example, two years ago we started a tradition of taking our cars as a featured group to a different show each year.  Last year we provided a special marketing attraction for the annual Roxanna, Illinois car show.  This year we are a special feature at the annual Wheels in Motion Show which benefits the National Children`s Cancer Society. 

Another new idea we introduced this year is the Kid`s CARd Club.  This is a project designed to attract young families to our activities. The Club features baseball type trading cards with photos and details on our cars.  Kids collect the cards; attend workshops on a variety of topics ranging from car photography to car judging. The National Museum of Transportation, located in St. Louis, has embraced the kids club which has now extended this exciting activity to 16 car clubs that have shows similar to the Classic Show we hold each year at the museum.  The Kid`s CARd Club has its own web site which is linked to this site.  Be sure to take a look at the cars that are available for kids to collect.  Also look at the photos the kids took at our Classic Show.

If you are not a member of the Spirit of St. Louis Classic Car Club of America I invite you to review our publications, and if you live in the region, to attend some of our activities and experience ride in one of our cars.  You do not have to own a classic to be a member. Also, as I mentioned previously, you do not have to live in our immediate region.  All we ask is that you have an appreciation for and an interest in the finest automobiles in the world that were built during the classic era (1925-1948).

Happy Motoring,

Wendell Smith

Regional Director