Round up your family, friends, neighbours, fellow fun-seekers and their vehicles – the Bay of Plenty Vintage Car Club is hosting a Daffodil Rally for Cancer on Sunday, August 20, at its Cliff Rd clubrooms.

The rally includes a public car show from 10am-1.30pm at the club’s base at 29 Cliff Rd, Tauranga.

At 1.30pm all vehicles registered will participate in a rally that will finish at a historical hall on the other side of the district.

“We want the public to know is that everyone and every type of car is welcome to join the rally – no matter what kind of vehicle you drive,” says Bay of Plenty Vintage Car Club vice chairman Donn White.

“We’ll have a lot of vintage and classic cars in the rally – but we want as many cars as possible of any make, model or age to join us.”

With August 20 being NZ Vintage Car Club’s National Day – all VCC branches across Aotearoa will be on a fundraising drive of some sort to raise funds for their local Cancer Society branch.

“Some clubs have a car show, some have a rally – the BOP branch is doing both,” says Donn.

The BOP VCC’s public car show is from 10am-1.30pm. There will be a gold-coin entry fee to view an array of beautiful vehicles of all makes, models, sizes and ages. The gates open for display vehicles from 8am.

“Our event organiser Raewyn Hughes has organised a fantastic range of food and refreshments to be for sale on-site at the club grounds for the day.”

A sausage sizzle will be available from early; the BOP VCC kitchen will be open for tea, coffee and morning tea to purchase. Plus food caravans and coffee carts on-site.

The rally briefing will be given at 1pm. For those wanting to join the rally with their vehicles, the start-time is 1.30pm and costs $10 per vehicle; afternoon tea at the final destination is $5 per person.

All proceeds will be donated to the Cancer Society.

While kept under wraps until the day, Donn hints the rally route will be “an awesome mixture of highway, byways, and country roads, which you will travel down, to the barrels of the earth, and back up along the ridges”.

“Rally participants please note there is 1km of hard, unsealed road on the route – and the rally’s duration is about 1.5 hours,” says Donn.

“We’re looking forward to everyone joining us for a great afternoon of motoring around the local countryside, with like-minded people who love their vehicles, and having a chat over a cuppa at our fantastic destination.”

Donn says the goal of the car show and rally is “to collect the biggest figure we can for the Cancer Society Waikato/Bay of Plenty”.

“It’s going to be an awesome day – so do come along and enjoy the fun!”