Right from the start GCCC has had excellent connections with a number of foreign sister clubs. Good contacts with the French sister club Ledorga, the Britsish GCCG (Gay Classic Car Group), the German club Queerlenker, and the Danish Gay Owned Vintage Cars (GOVC) with whom we have a lot of contact too. These contacts have led to a number of highly successful international events.These started off in 1993 when an Easter Run was held around Brussels, during the Easter weekend, followed a few weeks later by the first RIGAC (Rencontre Internationale des Gay Automobile Club) at Le Touquet on the Opal Coast in France. The organisation held a competition with the ‘grand prize’ being the opportunity to organise another international event. This was won by members of GCCC.
Consequently, the following year, 1994, GCCC organised its first international gathering, with Maarssen, in the province of Utrecht, as its base.We called it IGM, International Gay Classic Car Club meeting.
In 1995 the British GCCG organised an international gathering in Crawley , West Sussex, and they they were the ones who called that ‘Euro Tour’. That name has been adopted as the name for such events ever since and it has become a tradition for each club to take turns in organising a ‘Eurotour’. Events since then were held around Maastricht (NL) 1997, Kent (UK) 1998, France 1999, Nijmegen 2000, Cambridge (UK) 2001 and in the Eifel region in 2003.
Eurotours since 2004
- It was our turn again in 2004, when, at Whitsun, we had a gathering of some 160 people in and around Antwerp.
- In 2005 the British club organised one around Southampton.
- 2006 saw a weekend around Gladbeck and Essen .
- In 2007 it was our turn again around Emmeloord (in the land reclaimed from the sea), with the motto ”Dutch Lowlands & Highlights”.
- From May 16-18, 2008 we were guests in the British Cotswolds, a special Eurotour organised by the GCCG.
- In 2009 we helped Anders, Lars and Steffan from the Danish GOVC to organise the first Eurotour in Denmark on the Island of Fynen (May 29 – June 1, 2009).
- In 2010 QueerLenker organised Eurotour, from May 21-24 in Neumünster, near habour city Kiel.
- From June 10-13, 2011 the GCCC organised Eurotour in Belgium, this time in Verviers.
- In 2012 for the first time a Eurotour in Switzerland from Bern took place from May 25-28.
- Eurotour 2013 from May 17-20, 2013 took place in Wiltshire, organised by our sisterclub GCCG in the UK.
- In 2014 Denmark hosted a Eurotour in Lolland and Falster.
- Queerlenker organised the Eurotour in 2015 (May 22 – 25). It was situated in the Pfaltz, the region between Frankfurt and Alsace.
- GCCC was host again in 2016 (May 13 – 16). This time it was the area between Leyden and The Hague, with a visit to the Louwman Museum and a round trip by boat through the Leyden canals.
- June 2-5: Eurotour around Baden (CH)
- May 18-21:Eurotour around Norwich (UK)
- Denmark hosted again in 2019, held in Jutland.
- Covid-19 was the cause of the next Eurotour only taking place in 2022. The GCCC was up again and organised a successful weekend around Alkmaar from June 10 to 13, with a prison converted into a luxury hotel as the central location.
- Our British sister club hosted again from 19 to 22 May 2023 in beautiful Yorkshire, a county also known as ‘God’s Own Country’.
Switzerland organised one in the Langenthal area in 2024.- Germany hosted another one in 2025 in the Bonn area.
- GCCC organised a successful Eurotour in 2026 in Burgh-Haamstede in the province of Zeeland from May 29th till June 1st.
