Drive It Day 2025: 23 ways to join in

By Ryan Standen

| 17 Apr 2025

Classic & Sports Car – Drive It Day 2025: 23 ways to join in

Expect to see lots more classic cars on the roads on 27 April for Drive It Day 2025.

This year, the annual celebration is slightly later than usual, to avoid a clash with Easter weekend.

Drive It Day was created in 2005 by the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs to mark the anniversary of the One Hundred Mile Trial of 23 April 1900, when 65 vehicles drove from London to Edinburgh and back to prove the safety and reliability of cars. Impressively, 35 entrants reached the finish line.

Today, the initiative is used to raise awareness of the classic car movement.

Interested? Here’s how you can get involved in Drive It Day 2025.

If you can, click here to buy a Drive It Day plate – all proceeds go to the FBHVC’s charity partner, NSPCC Childline.

You don’t need to attend an event to take part, but hundreds of clubs and venues will be hosting Drive It Day gatherings.

Here are some of the classic car meets happening across the UK on 27 April 2025.

All of the information below was correct at the time of writing, but it’s worth checking that events are going ahead before you travel

1. Drive It Day at Eden Camp

Where: Eden Camp, North Yorkshire, YO17 6RT

Event website: edencamp.co.uk/whats-on/drive-it-day

For classic car enthusiasts in North Yorkshire, there’s the Drive It Day event at Eden Camp Modern History Museum in Malton.

You need to register online in advance. Tickets cost £5 and include entry to the museum, with proceeds going to NSPCC Childline.

2. Classic Car Club of Bury St Edmunds

Where: The Coffee House, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 6JY

Event website: facebook.com/CCCBse

As well as static gatherings, many clubs take part in road runs for Drive It Day.

This trip, organised by the Classic Car Club of Bury St Edmunds, will start at The Coffee House in Fornham All Saints at 10am.

From there, participants will follow a pre-planned route to Ipswich Transport Museum.

Newcomers are welcome to join, but you will need to email cccbse@gmail.com to reserve a spot.

3. Drive It Day at Brooklands Museum

Where: Brooklands Museum, Surrey, KT13 0SL

Event website: brooklandsmuseum.com/whats-on

Cars and ’bikes built before 31 July 1995 can park outside the near-100-year-old Clubhouse at Brooklands Museum for the site’s Drive It Day celebration.

The historic circuit is the perfect backdrop for a classic car gathering – and the site’s excellent museum will be open, too.

4. April Scramble

Where: Bicester Motion, Oxfordshire, OX26 5HA

Event website: bicestermotion.com/calendar

The April edition of Bicester Motion’s popular Scramble gatherings falls on Drive It Day, so expect to see even more classic cars at the restored RAF site.

If you’re going, make sure you check out the central display, ‘The Record Collection’, which will be dedicated to world-record-breaking vehicles, plus those that have appeared on record sleeves.

5. Drive It Day at the Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum

Where: Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum, Wiltshire, SN11 0NF

Event website: atwellwilson.org.uk/whats-on

If you’re looking for a Drive It Day gathering in south-west England, why not head to the Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum’s celebration?

Founded by the late Richard and Hasell Atwell in 1981, the museum is located between Bath and Swindon and will be open as normal on Drive It Day. Admission costs £12.

6. West Coast Classic Car Club

Where: Dobbies Garden Centre, Ayr, Ayrshire, KA6 5JJ

Event website: driveitday.co.uk/events/drive-it-day-ayrshire-road-run

For Scottish enthusiasts, how about this road trip with the West Coast Classic Car Club?

Meeting at Dobbies Garden Centre in Ayr at 10am, the group will head south-east to the town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders, about 70 miles away.

7. Isle of Wight Morris Minors Owners’ Club

Where: Ryde Canoe Lake, Isle of Wight, PO33 1ND

Event website: iowmmoc.blogspot.com

If you’re on the Isle of Wight on 27 April, look out for a group of Morris Minors driving a loop of the island to celebrate Drive It Day.

This road run will be split into three sections, and Morris Minor owners can come along for the whole trip, or just do part of it.

The day will start at Ryde Canoe Lake at 10am.

8. Historic Wheels Club

Where: Grampian Transport Museum, Aberdeenshire, AB33 8AE

Event website: historicwheelsclub.org

The Historic Wheels Club, one of the oldest classic car clubs in Scotland, celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025.

To mark this half-century, why not join the club’s Drive It Day road trip across the Cairngorms to the Grampian Transport Museum in Aberdeenshire, where there will be a photo opportunity on the museum’s on-site track.

If you’d like to take part, please email membership@historicwheelsclub.org for more information.

9. Microcar and Three-Wheeler Day

Where: The Crown Inn, Humshaugh, Northumberland, NE46 4AG

Event website: crowninnhumshaugh.co.uk

Pint-sized classics, from Bond Bugs and BMW Isettas to Reliant Robins and Messerchmitt KR200s, will gather at this countryside pub, near Hadrian’s Wall, from 12pm on 27 April.

There’s no need to book, simply turn up to this Drive It Day meet.

10. Castle View Windsor

Where: Castle View, Berkshire, SL4 5GG

Event website: castleviewwindsor.co.uk/events-calendar/

For classic car enthusiasts enjoying the roads around Berkshire on Drive It Day, Castle View retirement village will be serving coffee and cakes for those in need of a pitstop.

Refreshments will be available between 10am and 2pm.

Last year, more than 45 classic cars turned up throughout the day.

If you’re planning to arrive as a group, call 07778 554666 in advance to give the organisers a heads up.

11. Highland Classic Motor Club

Where: Rollerbowl Inverness, Scottish Highlands, IV2 4BQ

Event website: highlandclassic.org.uk/public/events/did.php

Join more than 25 classic cars – including an Austin 10/4, Lancia Fulvia and Toyota Celica GT4 – in the Scottish Highlands for this 44-mile trip from Rollerbowl Inverness to the Shandwick Inn, Invergordon.

The Highland Classic Motor Club’s event is open to non-members and is free to take part, although you must register on the website in advance.

12. Colne Valley Classic and Vintage Club

Where: Waitrose & Partners, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2SS

Event website: colnevalleycarclub.org.uk/general-clean

A 40-mile adventure from Sudbury, Suffolk, to Blake House Craft Centre in Essex with the Colne Valley Classic and Vintage Club.

Entry costs £5 and is payable on the day. If you’d like to take part, click here to contact George Wilder via the club’s website.

13. Drive It Day at Great Northern Classics

Where: Great Northern Classics, Derbyshire, DE24 8AE

Event website: greatnorthernclassics.co.uk/drive-it-day-sunday-27th-april

Great Northern Classics is holding a Drive It Day gathering in partnership with Iconic Auctioneers.

Refreshments will be available and trophies will be up for grabs in the car-park concours.

Come along between 10am and 2pm.

14. Jupiter Owners’ Auto Club

Where: Salts Mill, West Yorkshire, BD18 3HU

Event website: joac.org.uk/events

The Jupiter Owners’ Auto Club will display a line-up of classic models outside Salts Mill.

The former textile mill in Saltaire isn’t far from the old Jowett factory in Bradford.

This Drive It Day gathering will also mark the Jowett Jupiter’s 75th anniversary.

15. North Norfolk Classic Vehicle Club’s St George’s Day Run

Where: Sheringham, Norfolk, NR26 8RE

Event website: nncvc.org.uk/diary-and-event-details.html

This 60-mile rally from Sheringham to Holkham coincides with Drive It Day 2025. You must register in advance if you’d like to take part.

This year’s run will be extra special, because a 126-year-old Panhard et Levassor (above) that completed the original One Hundred Mile Trial of April 1900 will join participants for the last few miles of the St George’s Day Run.

16. Dundee Museum of Transport

Where: Dundee Museum of Transport, Tayside, DD1 3LA

Event website: dmoft.co.uk/event-details/drive-it-day-2

If you arrive at the Dundee Museum of Transport in a pre-1981 classic car on 27 April, you will be eligible for half-price entry to the museum.

Come along to this Drive It Day event between 10am and 4:30pm.

17. Vintage and Classic Car Rally at Glenarm Castle

Where: Glenarm Castle, County Antrim, BT44 0BQ

Event website: driveitday.co.uk/events/uvocc-34drive-it34-to-glenarm-castle

The Ulster Vauxhall Opel Classic Community will display a line-up of classic cars at Glenarm Castle in Northern Ireland for this Drive It Day event. The show will be preceded by a road trip along part of the Antrim Coast Road.

Don’t worry if you don’t drive a Vauxhall or an Opel, the gathering will be supported by the Northern Ireland Italian Motor Club and local Land-Rover enthusiasts – and all makes and models of classic cars are welcome.

18. Great British Car Journey’s tour to Peak Village

Where: Great British Car Journey, Derbyshire, DE56 2HE

Event website: greatbritishcarjourney.com/events-calendar

A 46-mile tour of charming Derbyshire villages, which will start and finish at the museum.

The route will pass Carsington Waters, Bradbourne, Tissington and Thornbridge Hall, in the Peak District.

Entry costs £25 per vehicle and the price includes a donation to NSPCC Childline. Participants will get a commemorative plate, a route map and a hot drink.

Email adrian@greatbritishcarjourney.com if you would like to take part.

19. Mercedes-Benz Club South Wales and Herefordshire trip

Where: The Hollybush, Cardiff, CF14 7EG

Event website: mercedes-benz-club.co.uk/events/south-wales-and-herefordshire-drive-it-day-event-cardiff-to-llandovery

If you’re a classic Mercedes-Benz owner who lives in south Wales, how about this road trip?

It’s from The Hollybush in Cardiff to West End Café in Llandovery, via Abergwesyn Common and Llyn Brianne reservoir. And, in fact, you don’t have to do it in classic car.

However, the event is open to members of The Mercedes-Benz Club only.

The club is hosting a number of Drive It Day events across the UK, which you can see here.

20. Crash Box & Classic Car Club

Where: The Den, Teignmouth, Devon, TQ14 8BQ

Event website: crashboxclub.co.uk/events/8998

Come along to the Crash Box & Classic Car Club’s classic car show in Teignmouth from 10am.

Expect everything from pre-war pioneers to modern-classic cars.

This free-to-attand event will likely draw a crowd in the seaside town.

21. Hampshire Midget and Sprite Club

Where: Tichborne Arms, Hampshire, SO24 0NA

Club contact: hampshire@midgetandspriteclub.co.uk

For MG Midget and Austin-Healey Sprite enthusiasts, there’s this relaxed drive and pub lunch with the Hampshire contingent of the Midget and Sprite Club.

If you’d like to get involved, email hampshire@midgetandspriteclub.co.uk for more information.

It’s one of many Drive It Day events being organised by the Midget and Sprite Club; click here to contact the club and find out where your nearest gathering is taking place.

22. Transport Museum Wythall

Where: Transport Museum Wythall, Worcestershire, B47 6JA

Event website: wythall.org.uk/whatson-apr

Last year, 120 vehicles attended Transport Museum Wythall’s Drive It Day celebration, including the Volvo P1800 that starred in The Saint and an Austin Heavy Twelve once owned by actor Peter Sellers.

The organisers are expecting another big turnout this year.