Nakuru motor club: A community of classic car lovers

What started as a need for three like-minded car enthusiasts to come together and enjoy fan travel while networking, has now morphed into a car club with its roots ground in Nakuru.

As the Nakuru Motor club turns one, we sat with one of the founders and Nakuru based social media Influencer Mose Alex alias Moseax to digest activities and achievement of the motor club a year on.

He starts by saying it is a great honour to be able to bring together car enthusiasts and create friends who support each other.

More to it is that they have managed to create an impactful business community that is core in supporting one another.

“When we started, we wanted a way to enjoy ourselves away from clubbing. Since we were car lovers we decided why not. Over the year, we have grown from three founding member to over 70 members now,” he notes.

Letting us in on the secret, he notes that other than networking, the car club wanted to start car meet ups to see the type of cars in town.

“I was mesmerized by the cars owned by Nakuru residents when we did our first car meet up. For me the Land Cruisers 80 series carried the day,” he notes.

Moseax notes that, from the club, they have managed to structure a membership that allows car enthusiasts to benefit by networking and on boarding their family on travel.

“Together we have travelled by road in the country and toured abroad together in Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. While travelling, we are at times guided by events organised by other motor clubs in different countries or car events happening around the world. For instance, we plan to attend the Land Rover car meet up Arusha and embark on a journey in February next year South Africa by road,” he mentions.

The membership is open to anyone at an annual fee of Sh 5,000.

Additionally, he says through the club they are revamping classic (Vintage) cars to create a collection owned by Nakuru residents, adding that the club wanted to get to a point where themed car travels will be done by Nakuru car owners.

“I am always elated to see classic cars on the move and this is one of the things we are on as a club. Many may think the motors club is a boys’ club however, we have avid lady drivers who have shown that this space is for us all,” Moseax says.

Asked what’s the thing he had had to unlearn because of the club, he says he dropped the notion that cars are expensive.

“It's in knowing how to cut the right deal that one can own great machines at a pocket friendly cost.”

On the other hand, what he has learnt is that making a car fully operational as an off-road car will cost you a lot.

His advice for people planning to do that is for them not to underestimate the cost aspect of it.

“Getting a car to be an off-road car can get to twice the amount you got the car for . The secret to getting this car to your dream off-road car is to do the upgrade as a project, setting out cash for an upgrade every time you can, as opposed to footing the whole bill once if you are cash constrained,” Moseax advices.

He concludes by saying the motor club will be celebrating its one-year anniversary with a two-day camping at Mtoni camp in Gilgil on October 19th-21st.