MotorPunk July 2013 | Page 17

CAR CLUB 18-30

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An exclusive collection of fast, interesting, or just plain cool modern classics, that were born no later than 1995, or remained in production until 1983

\r\n\r\nIt’s widely accepted that Derbyshire-born Baptist preacher Thomas Cook became the founding- father of the all-in package holiday when, in 1841, he chartered a train to take 540 God-bothering teetotallers on a short excursion from Leicester to Loughborough for a Temperance Society meeting.\r\n\r\nIt’s actually hard to believe that the same man’s company would, 130 years later, become synonymous with the booze-fuelled bonkathons we associate with today’s Club 18-30 holidays. I mean, who chooses to go to Loughborough for a day out?\r\nShamelessly ripping off this idea, we at MotorPunk bring you Car Club 18-30; an exclusive collective of fast, interesting, or just plain cool modern classics, that were born no later than 1995, or remained in production until 1983. \r\n\r\nEach month we hope to salute the entry of fresh-faced eighteen year olds into the gang, and wave goodbye to other cars that have become too old to qualify and grown up into sensible proper classics (replete with tartan picnic rugs, Werther’s Originals and drivers that tend to repeat themselves ... probably). \r\n