Club Members Convene in Kingston, MN to Watch Veteran Cars On New London to New Brighton Antique Car Run

- John Elliott with his Maxwell in Kingston, MN during the 2010 New London to New Brighton Antique Car Run.
While the New London to New Brighton Antique Car Run is not a Mercedes-Benz Club sanctioned event, and I don’t even think there was a single Mercedes-Benz in the field, it is an event that a lot of club members seem to enjoy attending year after year. Mercedes-Benz Club member John Elliott participates in this very interesting auto event, open to all vehicles from 1908 or earlier, or any 1 or 2 cylinder vehicles up to 1915, the New London to New Brighton Antique Car Run is the largest event of its kind in the Country. Read all about the event and how it’s organized at their website.
The town of Kingston, MN rolls out the red carpet for event participants and spectators with several large tents, picnic tables and a lunch of pulled pork sandwiches and fresh corn on the cob, and I mean freah, it was picked the morning of the event and the farmer himself was preparing it for participants and spectators. When I pulled into the Kingston church parking lot I quickly spotted several Mercedes-Benz club members I recognized and for the next few hours kept bumping into other club friends.
I saw Dick and Verna Lind, Paul and Chris Bergquist, Bernice Hill, and Bruce Kelly a little later on in the afternoon. Access to the cars is amazing. They stop in the middle of the street, two by two, and you can just walk through them all, talking to the owners and drivers, many of whom come in from hundreds, even thousands of miles away to participate in the even.
Maybe next year Mercedes-Benz club members could get organized and drive in a convoy of Mercedes all together from one central point in the twin cities. Until then.. here are a few photos of some of the participating cars.


