Veteran Car Tour 2025
Saturday, may 3, 2025 - SUNDAY, May 4, 2025
NEWPORT - BRISTOL - NEWPORT
Where History Lives AND Comes to Life
Audrain Motorsport is proud to announce the fourth annual Newport-Bristol-Newport Veteran Car Tour that will once again be gracing the roads of Newport and Bristol, RI. For 2025, we have expanded the event to two full days of Veteran motoring! The Audrain Veteran Weekend is truly a celebration of the early days of motoring, with many brass-era car collectors from New England and across the United States taking part. We are thrilled that the Audrain run is now thought of in a similar way to the world-famous London to Brighton Veteran Car Run that began with The Emancipation Run in 1896, which celebrated the Locomotives on Highways Act which liberalized motor vehicle laws in the United Kingdom.
For 2025, we have organized a parade and display of cars at the historic Fort Adams in Newport on the Saturday followed by a leisurely drive along the beautiful Ocean Avenue in Newport. This will be followed by a celebration dinner in Newport for entrants and guests. On Sunday, the route of the Audrain Veteran Car Tour will be a 50-mile roundtrip, departing from the Audrain Automobile Museum on Bellevue Avenue in Newport and will drive via the beaches of Newport before heading north along the comfortable back roads through Middletown and Portsmouth before crossing the historic Mount Hope Bridge to Bristol where it will turn around. Lunch will be at Blithewold Manor & Arboretum in Bristol before returning onto Aquidneck Island on the final leg back to the Audrain Automobile Museum for a celebratory reception.
This historic car-run promises to be an exciting celebration honoring the great history of the early days of motoring in Newport whilst offering enthusiastic owners a chance to use their antique motorcars in the manner for which they were indeed intended.
The entry fee is $950, for two people per car and includes all driving activities as well as breakfast and lunch on the Sunday. A VIP dinner on Saturday evening is open to entrants by reservation. The event is open to two categories of vehicles: cars built between 1895 and 1907 and cars built from 1907 to 1918.
$950 PER VEHICLE.
The event is open to suitable cars built prior to 1908. Limit 2 people per car. Please contact us for information on additional passengers.
It promises to be a magical trip – truly bringing history in motion to vibrant life!
