The Historische Opel Club Nederland (HOCN), founded at the end of 1994, was established after a merger of the two Old-timer Clubs that existed in the Netherlands. Those clubs were already active in the field of historical Opels and did this for more than 10 years.

The present HOCN has over 1.000 members and these members possess a large variety of ancient Opels.

The object of the HOCN is to maintain the products made by Opel, such as sewing- machines, bicycles, motor-cycles, refrigerators and cars. Cars of at least 20 years of age are the main point.

The club publisches their club magazine " Opel Klassiek" five times a year. This magazine is fun to read but also provides the club members with indispensable information, which they need to exercise their " Opel hobby". The magazine is written in Dutch.

A lot of attention is paid to the history of the brand name, technical information and support, but also to public and political matters in case of historical transportation and to club meetings. The magazine also has a column with advertisements.

Naturally, advertising is free for club members.

Several times a year, club meetings will be organised spread out all over The Netherlands. At such a meeting, club members can meet other club members, they can exchange spare parts, share information and show their car(s). Usually, a special tour for the ancient cars will be held as well.

The main club event of the year will be held at "Opeldealer Terberg in IJsselstein (near Utrecht)". For one day, the parking place of Terberg will change into an open air Opel museum and one of the buildings is converted into a large club house.

To promote the club and as an extra service to the club members the club will often be present at motor shows

The club appointed several specialists, as the club covers a large variety of historical Opels models These specialists have a thorough knowledge of one specific model or a group of models. Club members can turn to these specialists if they need more information of a certain model or if they need parts for a certain Opel model. The specialists proved to be valuable asset to the HOCN.

On a regular basis, a member list is distributed. Separately, a list of the HOCN car register is distributed. These lists can be very useful in finding other club members owning the same Opel model. When knowing a lot of others club members one can achieve maximum profit of his/her memberschip.

The HOCN is also associated with the FEHAC, the federation of historical motorbike- and car clubs in The Netherlands. The object of the FEHAC is to serve the interests of the owners of historical vehicles, in case of social and political developments. The FEHAC is associated with the international FIVA

The HOCN maintains good relations with other Opel clubs in the countries surrounding The Netherlands, like Germany, Belgium and Denmark.

MEMBERSCHIP FEE

The fee for one year ( January- December) subscription is € 35,-.

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