NAMAC stands for Dutch General Model Car Club and they celebrate their 50th anniversary this year.
They are the organisers of the famous big swapmeet in Houten. This sawpmeet atracts aprox 4.500 visitors each time (6x per year).
(aprox 1.400 metres of table)
As I wrote in another tread a big exhbition with 112 collectors and 112 glasscabinets will be organised from july 1st till aug 9rd this summer in the famous vintage carmuseum in The Hague.
See:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3267&p=39134&hilit=louwman#p39134
The club has over 5.200 members.
Twice a year take the members of the NAMAC on the club day, consisting of a meeting and a visit to a museum. This time we were guests in the Healey Museum in the Dutch village of Vreeland.
Visitors of the clubday got a talk by the owner of the museum who told something about the special versions he has of the Austin Healy.
There are very special Healey's, as told by chairman Hans van de Kerkhof. A good example is a Healey Duncan DHC / A, of which there is only one built in 1947.
Among the exhibits eventually as many as 156 members found a place, which witnessed an almost historical event: after some 18 years, Otto Fast said farewell to the presidency of the association. With a loud applause Sander Berghuis was proposed as new chairman. His first official act was the appointment to Otto Snel now being honorary member of the NAMAC.
After his talk the members got an inside of the future plans of the club and the fiinances of the NAMAC club.
After a lunch we got a briefing about the exhbition at the Louwman museum in the Hague and they had a floorplan of that museum with all the glasscabinets numbered so that collectors could already see which cabinet will be for them.
It was a very successful day. I realy liked all the very nice Spot-On, Dinky Toys, Schuco, Triang, Tootsieyoy, Scalextric models and more in the modelcar cabinets.
Some of the photos I took of the many superb models on displays and the great 1:1 Austin Healy cars.
Outside was the 1:1 example of the club model, which comes in August. A very nice old DAF car.
I took a lot of photos in the Austin Healy museum. The remaning photos can be viewed here:
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=NI8HGR8E
Website of the dutch Austin Healy museum:
http://www.healey.nl/healey_museum/
A report in dutch with more and better photos can be found here:
(each can be viewed bigger when clicking on the photo)
http://namac.nl/index.php/28-clubdag/22 ... eland.html
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