Valley Collector Car Club
5/14/2012 - Joe Bellino Passes
The "Air boss" at the Simsbury Fly-In, Joe has been a friend of The VCCC for over a decade. Please read his obit, reprinted from the Hartford Couran...
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4/14/2012 - The Town of Simsbury is looking to the VCCC for guidance and direction on the Simsbury Memorial Day Parade and tells us that there could be many more vets looking for tra...[read more]

3/13/2012 - Spring is HERE ! Yea!!!  The VCCC trusts that you will check your tires, fluids and more, prior to taking the "ole girl" out for a spin. I wish I had followed those ver...[read more]

House Bills Defeated
Thanks to the efforts of Connecticut automotive hobbyists, [we] have good news to report as the 2012 Legislative Session has come to an end last night.

House Bill 5405, which proposed to introduce a state wide mill rate on all motor vehicles, raise the maximum property tax assessed value of an antique car from $500 to $2500, and increase the age of an antique car from 20 to 30 years is dead.  The bill, which narrowly made it out of committee and was sitting on the House calendar for a vote, did not get voted on by the full House (or the Senate).   As such, the maximum $500 assessed value on an antiqu...[read more]