The Classic Car Club of America (CCCA) is an organization founded in 1952 with a goal of celebrating the automobiles of the prewar period.
to have invented the term classic car, which was coined to describe the vehicles covered by the club's interest.
[citation needed] This may be considered analogously to the correct usage of 'Classical music' to mean only from a specific historical period, even though many people use the term to mean any orchestral work.
The CCCA has a narrow focus, tending towards only the high-priced cars available in a limited time period.
However, the CCCA's list of "Classics" is arbitrary, accepting all eight-cylinder Auburns, an assembled Buick/Hudson product, but not the non-Imperial Chrysler eights of the same era, which also featured full-pressure-oiled engines, hydraulic brakes, and overdrive beginning before the rest of the industry in 1934, and were arguably as attractive as the Auburn pre-Airflow models.
The CCCA's car shows and judged championships are known as Grand Classics and are held at various points throughout the US.
If the car now is identical to its as-new condition (or indeed better, given the quality of modern restoration) then 100 points are awarded.