Events

June Regularity Run
Sun, 30 Jun
Folkestone Garden Centre , MR 179/215431
30 Jun 2024, 09:00 – 15:30
Folkestone Garden Centre , MR 179/215431, Canterbury Rd, A260, Swingfield Minnis, Folkestone CT15 7HX, UK
30 Jun 2024, 09:00 – 15:30
Folkestone Garden Centre , MR 179/215431, Canterbury Rd, A260, Swingfield Minnis, Folkestone CT15 7HX, UK

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Latest News

27/06/2024 Highway Newsletter

We are pleased to welcome Sue Watson as the new editor of the club newsletter Highway. Sue has some very large shoes to fill as she takes over from our esteemed former Chairman Brian Millen, who did a fantastic job of editing Highway for many years. If you are a regular competitor then expect to hear from Sue as she endeavours to find features to fill the pages. If you have any stories, reports, articles, pictures, etc that you would like to see included in Highway then please send them to Sue at sue.blackpalfrey@gmail.com . We wish Sue the very best of luck in her new role and look forward to perusing her first Highway in due course.

Club Rally Championship

The 2023/24 Club Rally Championship. Don't forget to register your Rally Results with our Championship Administrator, Dick Athow, at regruns@outlook.com. Regulations for the Championship can be found below

Tour of Kent 2024

The next Tour of Kent will be held on Sunday 6th October 2024. Full details of the 2024 Tour will appear here in due course. We look forward to meeting Tourers old and new in October 2024. Blackpalfrey Motor Club's Annual Tour for Classic Cars continues to support Demelza Hospice Care for Children and we thank you for your generosity towards this charity in previous years. In 2022, thanks to your support £1300 of much needed funds were raised by the Tour of Kent.

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Blackpalfrey's annual subscriptions are only £15 single, £20 for joint (family) members living at the same address or only £5 for under 25's.

Members Subscriptions are due on 31st March each year, but new members who join after 1st January will not need to renew until 31st March the following year.

To join the Club or renew your membership you can now access our online membership system here. Your details will be held securely and payment is via Paypal, credit or debit card and for those who prefer it cheque. Our privacy and data protection policy is published on the bottom of the 'Join Us' Page. For further information about membership please contact our Membership Secretary, Tom Ash, at membership@blackplafrey.co.uk or click on the name on the contacts page.

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About Us

The Blackpalfrey Motor Club was formed in 1965, by a group of rally enthusiasts, as an amalgamation of the Black Horse (a Public House) Car Club from Tunbridge Wells and the William Palfrey Limited (an engineering company) Car Club from Rochester.

We formed our base in Maidstone and immediately applied for R.A.C. Motor Sport Division (now Motorsport UK) recognition, in order to promote Motor Sport at club level in the South East. We became a limited company in about 1972. In the mid '70s we became aware that not being affiliated to a town was a disadvantage and we changed the name to 'The Blackpalfrey Motor Club of Kent'.

In the early years we promoted annually three night road rallies; the Hughes Rally, the Hassel Rally and the Harris Rally, three Autocrosses, Production Car Trials, Grass Autotests and Social events, including Dinner Dances attracting 350 guests etc. In the 1980s we moved on to promote Slalom Autotests and Sprints on West Malling Airfield, but unfortunately these events came to an end with the development of the Kingshill complex on the old airfield.

In 1996, we decided that the future of the Club would be with the development of the Classic Motorsport and social scene in Kent and the annual Hughes Historic Rally, with 150 mile road section and tests on private land, was born. In 2004 we ran our first Tour of Kent for cars 'over 20 years old and newer 'interesting' cars'.....and here we are today

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