Established in 2024 in Utah, United States, Sunday Drive Club is a local driving community and art project.

Led by British Creative Director Chris Mann, Sunday Drive Club offers community events, limited-edition apparel, objects and art. Each piece reflects a commitment to people, places, and world culture.

STORY

My Grandpa Len lived to 98 years old. He was a dreamer, inventor, and storyteller. During his career he owned and eventually sold a few vacuum cleaner repair shops just south of London. He was a tinkerer, constantly creative, and the kind of person who needed to be the first. He was the first in the neighborhood to own a color TV, the first to ride an e-bike (which he built himself by strapping two car batteries and a motor to a road bike), and his version of the first minivan? A Morris Minor cargo van with a deck chair and cushions in the back.

He was more than just innovative—he was a man of loyalty and devotion to his family, the kind who built his life around the people he loved. As the years passed, so did his ability to do the things that once filled him with joy. The cycling trips through the English countryside, the books he studied, the journal he diligently wrote in every morning, the long car drives that lead him to adventure and the world outside his home. Slowly, those freedoms slipped away, leaving him with memories of the life he once lived.

In his final years, my Dad and uncles made sure he never lost the connection to the world that fulfilled him. Every Sunday, they would take turns driving him along the country roads he once knew by heart. The same winding, open roads where he had cycled, where he had seen the world in all its beauty and promise. In those Sunday drives, he was free again, alive in the moments where the world rushed past his window, reminding him of the life that filled him to the brim.

In those Sunday drives, my Grandpa rediscovered the feelings brought by the open road and the spirit that had defined his nearly 100 years. Though he didn’t reach the century mark, he lived a rich life—filled with love, adventure, and boundless optimism. Each ride reminded him, and us, that freedom doesn't come from the destination but the passion with which we embrace the journey. His legacy lives on in the lives he touched and in the roads he traveled.

—Chris Mann, his Grandson