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2012 VCOA National Meet in St. Louis, MO

St. Louis, MO, March 6 – “Meet Me in St. Louis” is the theme for the 2012 Volvo Club of America’s National Meet to be held in St. Louis, MO on June 1-3, 2012. The St. Louis-area’s Gateway Chapter of the Volvo Club of America (VCOA) is hosting the 3-day event.
Tickets for all events are available now to all VCOA members on the www.vcoa.org website. Tickets include admission to all meet events. A special room rate is available for attendees at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel. More information is available on the Hotel Details page of the Gateway VCOA website at: https://sites.google...ite/gatewayvcoa

On June 1, registration for 2012 VCOA National Meet ticketholders takes place at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel lobby from 3:00pm until 7:00pm. A dinner will be held for all registrants at the Weiss Brentwood Volvo dealership that evening from 6:00pm until 8:00pm.
The premier event of the meet will be held on June 2 when the Volvo Car Show will be held at the Forest Park Muny Upper Parking Lot from 10:00am until 3:00pm. This is open to the public with no admission fee. Participant check-in for the car show will occur from 8:00am until 10:00am. New and vintage Volvos of all years and models will be on display, including a 1962 Volvo P1800, the 5-time Volvo Historic Series Champion Car. Food and Volvo accessory vendors will also be in attendance at the show.

The new Volvo C30 EV electric concept vehicle will be on display at the car show. This all-electric sedan seats four and has a range of 90 miles on a 24 kWh battery. First seen at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, the electric car has acceleration from 0-60 mph in 11 seconds, a top speed of about 80 miles per hour, and needs eight hours to recharge the battery pack from a 220-volt household outlet.

In the evening of June 2, a dinner and awards banquet will be held in the Lindell Ballroom at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel. The keynote speaker at the banquet will be Lars-Erik Lundin, who led Volvo’s groundbreaking development of the Volvo 850 model, from 1983 to launch. 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the 850.

Lundin was most recently Vice President and General Manager of the Volvo Monitoring and Concept Center (VMCC) in Southern California. Now retired, Lundin spends his winters in California and his summers in Sweden.

On Sunday, June 3 a breakfast will be held at the Suntrup Volvo dealership in O’Fallon, MO from 8:00am until 10:00am. Following breakfast, meet participants can drive in the Volvo Rally from 10:00am until 12:00. An awards ceremony will also be held to award trophies in six car show categories: Rear Wheel Drive (People’s Choice), Front Wheel Drive/All Wheel Drive (People’s Choice), Performance Oriented (judged), Champions (judged), Best of Show (sponsored by Volvo Cars North America), and other special awards (Dealer’s Choice, Diamond in the Rough, and Road Warrior for most miles driven).

Dealer sponsors for the three-day event are Suntrup West County Volvo, Suntrup Volvo of O’Fallon, and Weiss Brentwood Volvo.
For more information about the 2012 VCOA National Meet, visit the Gateway VCOA’s website at: https://sites.google...ite/gatewayvcoa or the chapter’s Facebook page by searching for Gateway VCOA.


We have worked very diligently to make this an event that is welcoming to all Volvo owners, including those with a more performance oriented attitude. As you can see by the addition of the Performance Oriented class and some of the exhibitors at the meet. All are welcome.

If you're coming from the South you might want to stay over until Tuesday when the Hot Rod Power Tour comes to town. I am going to run the tour from E St Louis to Miami, OK; Stillwater, OK; and then finish the tour at it's closing in Arlington, Tx. Anyone that wants to join in with that is welcome.

If you have any questions please feel free to shoot me an e-mail or a PM.


Thank you!