Our Story
The Bakersfield Car Club Council (BCCC) was formed back in August of 1988 by two local car enthusiasts, Ken Kisor and Chris Addington. Both were members of local car clubs for years and saw the need to have an organization where local car clubs could meet once a month and share their events as well as share experiences of a recent car club outing. Ken belonged to Vintage Ltd. Street Rods, the Model A Ford Club, the Thunderbird Club, and Kernville Street Rods. Chris had also belonged to Vintage Ltd. plus several local VW clubs including V-Dubs Ltd. and Cal Volks.
The BCCC held these monthly meetings at Ken and Pat Kisor’s home in central Bakersfield. The BCCC started out with around ten local clubs but word got out and the BCCC grew to 35 clubs as any club in the Golden Empire was welcome to be a part of the BCCC. With the growth of the BCCC and interest in doing something annual for the community, it was decided to do a charity of some sort. The BCCC’s first charity was the annual U.S. Marines Toys for Tots campaign. After several years of doing this event and Ken and Chris had stayed on as Co-Spokespersons of the BCCC, it was decided that it was time for a change. Lynn Hubbard and Fred Evenson came on board as the new Spokespersons and the BCCC was approached by the Society for Disabled Children of Kern County and it was decided that this would become the main charity for the BCCC. The BCCC Super Cruise was born in 1996.
The Society for Disabled Children was impacted like many other charities, during the pandemic had to permanently close in 2020. Although this saddened our organization, we had to regroup and find a new main charity for the BCCC. We are proud to now be in partnership with the Bakersfield City Firefighter’s Burn Foundation as our main charity which took affect in 2021.
There was and still is no cost for clubs to belong to the BCCC. Clubs select a person to become their club’s Rep. and this person attends the monthly BCCC meetings. An election is held at the end of each year for one or both of the BCCC Spokespersons. The BCCC Spokespersons are responsible for running the monthly meetings as well as coordinating and organizing the annual Super Cruise event. They are also the contact people for the BCCC and frequently get contacted for various local functions that need cars or want to put on a fundraising event and need help. BCCC Spokesperson through the years: Ken Kisor, Chris Addington, Lynn Hubbard, Fred Evenson, Roy Romagno, Phyllis Culp, the late Rudy Gallups, Gil Edmondson, Debbie Launer, Bette Addington, Richard Lopez, Danny Rodriguez, and “Lugnut” Larry Thomas. Current BCCC Spokespersons are Jordan Tyack, Jimmy Normandin and Johnny Fuentes.
BCCC currently meets on the second Monday of each month and vote to go dark in July and August or not. Meeting time is 630pm and most meetings seldom go to 8:00 pm. BCCC has approached 80+ Affiliate Clubs and growing as more clubs see and understand what we do for our hobby.