Aston Martin Owners Club

The Aston Martin Owners Club (AMOC, pronounced am-oc) is one of the oldest one-make car enthusiast clubs, one of the largest with worldwide membership and one of the leaders.

It was the late Mortimer Morris-Goodall, 'Mort' to many friends, who started it all. Having been fired with enthusiasm by winning an automobile race at age twenty and by his first meeting with 'Bert' Bertelli shortly after, his success led to the purchase of the team car LM7 and an invitation to drive “under works control’’ at Le Mans in 1933. His reverence for "Bert and his Astons" prompted the thought that almost everyone else who had the good fortune or sense to own an Aston felt the same and “how nice it would be to meet some of these people.

S. C. H. "Sammy" Davis agreed that an Aston Martin Owners Club would be a good idea and inserted a note in (of which he was Sports Editor) of 3 and 17 May 1935, calling a meeting. The 20 or 30 people who turned up on 25 May also agreed and elected a committee which included Lance Prideaux-Brune, Dick Anthony, Maurice Falkner, Harold Bevan, Miss Dorothy Bean and Peter Cadbury.

Charles Jarrott was persuaded to become the President and Sammy Davis the Vice-President, with Leslie Keevil as Honorary Treasurer and Mort Goodall as Honorary Secretary. The Club's activities, mostly social, including an annual dinner-dance at the Park Lane Hotel, were brought to a close by the Second World War.

The process started again at a meeting led by Dick Stallebrass at the R.A.C. on 5 March 1948. However, following his death at Spa only four months later, Dudley Coram started to play a leading role in the re-formed Club, with Eric Cutler as chairman. At one time or another, Coram served in every capacity in the Club before he died in 1976.

Although the pre-war archives have been lost, the present rules are believed to enshrine the same principles as those drafted in 1935. Our Memorandum of Association provides, inter alia, that the Club is established to “promote the sport and pastime of motoring’’, “develop interest in the ASTON MARTIN CAR’’ and “encourage social intercourse between Members’’. The Club, in the UK, puts on some five race meetings a year, at least one hillclimb and three sprints. Worldwide, the Club is represented on most continents, with thriving sections in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the USA. Other countries have a smaller representation which are no less enthusiastic. These groups also entertain their fellow Members with various events.

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