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Historic Vehicle Association
AbbreviationHVA
Established2009; 15 years ago (2009)
Typeclub / society
Purposepromote the cultural and historical significance of the automobile, and protect the future of automotive history.
Location
AffiliationsHagerty Insurance Agency
Websitewww.historicvehicle.org

The Historic Vehicle Association (HVA) was founded in 2009 in America to promote the cultural and historical significance of the automobile, and protect the future of automotive history. The society has been an influential part of the U.S. Department of the Interior's Historic American Engineering Record (a part of the Heritage Documentation Programs), and has helped identify historical significance and excellence in car making.[1] With over 375,000 members, the HVA claims to be the world's largest historic vehicle owners' organization.

HVA was founded with philanthropic support of Hagerty, and became the designated North American representative of FIVA (Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens), the international federation of historic vehicle organizations – both for the U.S. and Canada.[2][3]

Mission strategy

The Historic Vehicle Association aims to achieve its mission in four ways:[3]

1. Documenting and recognizing historically important vehicles in a National Historic Vehicle Register.

2. Establishing and sharing best practice guidelines to ensure that authentic examples of automotive history will be available for future generations.

3. Promoting the historical and cultural significance of the automobile through media and events.

4. Protecting the future of automotive history through affiliations with museums and academic institutions, educational programs, and support of legislative action.

Main projects

Listing an automobile on the National Register of Historic Places

The National Register For Historic Places does allow an automobile to be included as either a historic object or historic structure. To date (2020) no state or commonwealth in the United States with historic property listings have an automobile individually listed. In 2014, a private attempt with the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission to list a 1922 Model T Ford. The process went as far as the Keeper of the National Register and a listing in the Federal Register. Both the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and The National Park Service rejected the nomination. (Federal Register/Vol. 79, No. 173/Monday, September 8, 2014.)(www.gpo.gov › fdsys › pkg › pdf).

Vehicles on the register

From HVA Registry, including the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) number[6]

References

  1. ^ Preston, Benjamin. "Shelby Cobra Coupe Becomes the First Federally Registered Historic Ca". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  2. ^ Global Members – FIVA
  3. ^ a b About the HVA - Historic Vehicle Association
  4. ^ Historic Vehicle Association (HVA) – Drive History
  5. ^ Documentary Films - Historic Vehicle Association
  6. ^ "Vehicles on the Register". Historic Vehicle Association. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  7. ^ Golfen, Bob. "Now 50, first Camaro added to National Historic Vehicle Register". The ClassicCars.com Journal. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  8. ^ Pearlman, Robert Z. "Apollo 12 Astronaut's 'AstroVette' Added to Historic Vehicle Register". Space.com. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
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