Classic Car Club Manhattan has split its operations into two Midtown spaces, pairing a members-only clubhouse with a separate facility dedicated to housing its fleet and members' stored cars. The private automotive club's clubhouse sits next door to a Ferrari dealership and near an Aston Martin showroom, while a dedicated West 55th Street facility now handles the vehicles themselves.
Two Spaces, One Club
The move separates hospitality from automotive operations, according to Modern Luxury, which reported the club opened a 40,000-square-foot Midtown clubhouse. That clubhouse reportedly includes a 75-seat screening room, an outdoor terrace, a library, a billiards room, a private dining room, and a full-service restaurant and bar. The club has also reimagined its sim racing room with new equipment, per the same report.
The West 55th Street facility, meanwhile, is where members' cars actually live. It includes a showroom, a shop, and a detailing center, and it hosts cars-and-coffee events, motorcycle shows, and barbecues, according to Modern Luxury's reporting. The club reports nearly 1,500 members overall.
A Club Built Around Driving, Not Just Parking
Classic Car Club Manhattan offers an ever-rotating fleet of roughly 40 cars and motorcycles to members with driving privileges, per Modern Luxury. Membership itself breaks down into distinct tiers: social membership grants access to the clubhouse, dining, events and programming, while driving membership adds access to that fleet. The club's own membership page describes three categories in total — Clubhouse, Driver and Corporate — with Classic Car Club Manhattan noting that “Clubhouse membership includes full access to all of the member facilities as well as the Club's entire calendar of events, both here and abroad, on-track and off.” Driver membership, the club says, “includes all Clubhouse membership perks, as well as individual access to our fleet.”
Corporate memberships can be customized to allow multiple members under one account, with tailored group events, according to the club's membership page. Pricing for driving-inclusive memberships was reported in 2018 by Luxe Life NYC to start at $5,000 per year, though that figure predates the club's current Midtown setup and hasn't been independently confirmed as current pricing.
Trips, Track Days, and a Simulator Setup
Members reportedly travel together several times a year, with recent trips including Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, the Nürburgring in Germany, Baja, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Isle of Man TT, according to Modern Luxury. Members also attend Formula 1 weekends in Miami, Las Vegas and Montreal, the outlet reported.
Back at the clubhouse, the simulator setup follows a tradition the club has leaned on for years. Luxe Life NYC noted in 2018 that “there are only 30 professional grade car racing simulator machines in the world and the Classic Car Club has three of them,” and that members could drive the club's actual cars for stretches ranging from an hour to a full weekend, with additional costs involved.
A History With Shifting Addresses
Classic Car Club was born in London and founded in 1995, arriving in New York in 2005, according to Modern Luxury. Separately, Gear Patrol has reported that the club operated out of a 10,000-square-foot space in Lower Manhattan starting in 2005 before relocating — a move Modern Luxury describes as going from Hudson Street to Pier 76. Gear Patrol described that Pier 76 space as 38,000 square feet on Manhattan's far West Side beside the Hudson River, with plans at the time to build a 3,000-square-foot clubroom overlooking the car showroom out of old hay-storage rooms, plus a public garden with water access and a cafe, and space for The Ninety, the club's moto-centric creative agency. Club co-owner Zac Moseley said at the time the location would help the club “become the epicenter of automotive happenings in New York City.”
Exactly where the club's address stands today is murkier than that history suggests. Its own event platform lists the club at 793 11th Avenue, while Modern Luxury's reporting places Classic Car Club Manhattan at 66 E. 55th Street, and 2018 reporting from Luxe Life NYC put it at Pier 76, “which is really 12th Avenue just a hair north of 34th Street.” The club also has a London location in addition to its Manhattan operation, Luxe Life NYC noted, and hosts private, members-only events such as wine tastings and screenings of professional races on large screens — a tradition the club's own event site confirms, offering a screening room along with a bar and restaurant where races are also shown on screens.
