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2026 SAOCA 25th Anniversary Invasion! Back to our Rootes!

This is the last day to get your hotel room at the special rate. Everyone who has registered at the hotel as of today gets FREE registration for the Invasion. Info for the registration for all others after this date will be on this forum soon.
Here is all the info for the hotel and the car show registration.
The Board has negotiated a terrific rate of just $134/night - including breakfast for two! – at the DoubleTree by Hilton Dayton Fairborn. Our rate is good from July 28th, 2026 through August 5th for those who want to extend on either end, and we will hold an event dinner banquet there on Saturday night after the car show. The hotel hosts multiple car clubs throughout the year and is very experienced at taking care of groups like ours. We will have a dedicated parking area, ample room for trailers and a large parts room/hospitality area that will be open for the duration of the event. We have a room block for 20 rooms (10 with two queen beds and 10 with kings) on Thursday the 30th, and 40 rooms (20 and 20) for the 31st and 1st. You can book your room at:

https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/saoca2026atdoubletree/

The Dayton British Car Day (https://britishcardaydayton.com) will be held this year on Saturday, August 1st
And bring parts to sell too-we have a big parts room to fill up!
 
Good news for all of you procrastinators: The hotel has agreed to extend our special rate until July 10th! And, the club is going to extend our free registration offer, too! So, if you haven't booked your room and registered for the Invasion, you have another 9 days!
 
Good idea. Greg: I'm not sure how to be sure everyone sees this when the access the forum. Any way to do that?
 
I’ve forgotten if I registered or not - I know I reserved a hotel room though. I’m not bringing my Bunseam, because it’s still being painted (delayed due to the heat), so I didn’t register for the British car day. Anyway, I submitted an Invasion registration - apologies if it’s a duplicate!
 
Thanks, Kevin. I just checked and you had not registered previously. I am waiting for an update from the hotel; we should be able to get a good count between the two lists.
 
Just registered today after taking first in class for both the Harrington V8 and the Tiger this past weekend at the 2026 Western Washington All British Field Meet.
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I didn't need a Hotel room so just registered for our Invasion and the British Car Day.
 
Alpine 1789 said:
The SAOCA was founded in 2001 by a handful of Alpine owners in Ohio, most of them in the Dayton area. Some of our best and most remembered national Invasions were later held in Dayton, where we invaded that city’s annual British Car Day. And now, we are going to return to the city to celebrate our 25th Anniversary!

The Dayton British Car Day (https://britishcardaydayton.com) will be held this year on Saturday, August 1st and our Invasion will start on Friday, July 31st with a group trip to Dayton’s British Transportation Museum (https://www.britishtransportationmuseum.org), home of multiple Rootes Group cars and a collection of donated Sunbeam parts which will be available for us to browse and purchase!

The Board has negotiated a terrific rate of just $134/night - including breakfast for two! – at the DoubleTree by Hilton Dayton Fairborn. Our rate is good from July 28th, 2026 through August 5th for those who want to extend on either end, and we will hold an event dinner banquet there on Saturday night after the car show. The hotel hosts multiple car clubs throughout the year and is very experienced at taking care of groups like ours. We will have a dedicated parking area, ample room for trailers and a large parts room/hospitality area that will be open for the duration of the event. We have a room block for 20 rooms (10 with two queen beds and 10 with kings) on Thursday the 30th, and 40 rooms (20 and 20) for the 31st and 1st. You can book your room at:


There will be more information to come in the coming weeks and months, along with event pricing, which the Board has voted to subsidize and keep very reasonable! In the meantime, please mark your calendars and feel free to book you rooms!

See you in Dayton this summer!
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Are there activities planned for saturday and and Sunday? We would not make it until Saturday late afternoon/ evening.
 
Alpine 1789 said:
The SAOCA was founded in 2001 by a handful of Alpine owners in Ohio, most of them in the Dayton area. Some of our best and most remembered national Invasions were later held in Dayton, where we invaded that city’s annual British Car Day. And now, we are going to return to the city to celebrate our 25th Anniversary!

The Dayton British Car Day (https://britishcardaydayton.com) will be held this year on Saturday, August 1st and our Invasion will start on Friday, July 31st with a group trip to Dayton’s British Transportation Museum (https://www.britishtransportationmuseum.org), home of multiple Rootes Group cars and a collection of donated Sunbeam parts which will be available for us to browse and purchase!

The Board has negotiated a terrific rate of just $134/night - including breakfast for two! – at the DoubleTree by Hilton Dayton Fairborn. Our rate is good from July 28th, 2026 through August 5th for those who want to extend on either end, and we will hold an event dinner banquet there on Saturday night after the car show. The hotel hosts multiple car clubs throughout the year and is very experienced at taking care of groups like ours. We will have a dedicated parking area, ample room for trailers and a large parts room/hospitality area that will be open for the duration of the event. We have a room block for 20 rooms (10 with two queen beds and 10 with kings) on Thursday the 30th, and 40 rooms (20 and 20) for the 31st and 1st. You can book your room at:


There will be more information to come in the coming weeks and months, along with event pricing, which the Board has voted to subsidize and keep very reasonable! In the meantime, please mark your calendars and feel free to book you rooms!

See you in Dayton this summer!
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Hello Jim. I mentioned to Paul A that I was planning to be there with my son, Paul, but thought I should maybe let you know, too. I managed to book the last room some time ago. I hope we can arrive in an Alpine, but we will have to see if the car will run by then. They both need some work. Barb Blue
 
I am very happy to know that you will be there! Especially since it the event is really due to you and your questions about the club's origin. See you soon!
 
I just unpacked a very generous donation of door prizes from Kelly at Sunbeam Specialities. We have two $100 gift certificates, multiple owners manual reprints, several copies of Performance Tuning the Sunbeam Tiger (for any Tiger owners who show up), key fobs, pens and one set of Alpine monogrammed floor mats! WOW! And, more is coming shortly from Classic Sunbeam. If that wasn't enough to convince anyone who is still on the fence about going, we have selected a very nice menu for our opening reception and our final night banquet. Our partners at the Doubletree are even supplying coolers and ice for us to stock with beer in the hospitality room.

There is still time! I hope to see you there.
 
Wow ! That's very generous. Sounds like a good time is going to be had by all. Now just to make it there .
Seems like we'll be on our own coming up I 75 from the Atlanta area.
Tom j
 
As far as I know, I will be alone coming from NY. Trailering the car as I am not sure my body can take a 15 hour Alpine drive anymore, nor that my Alpine can take the drive either.
 
Mine is in this state presently... so it's obviously not coming... but Jan and I will be there. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

(Paint color is actually Carnival Red, but the bright booth lights make the images below look far too red.)
 

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Heading out tomorrow taking the slow route I'll go about 1/2 way then 2 days off. As long as everything is going okay I'll continue on Wednesday hope to be in Dayton Wednesday night
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