For the 100th anniversary, Mr Anderson approached Glasgow City Council to try and strike a deal with them.

He said he suggested planting trees in one of the city’s gardens in an effort to offset the carbon, but he said they weren’t interested.

Mr Anderson said it was becoming increasingly difficult to organise classic car events.

“I think there’s a new attitude towards the car and we’re almost made to dislike them and the people that drive them and the size that they are,” he said.

“Old cars are a bit more polluting but they don’t do many miles a year so it amounts to hardly anything in terms of the environment.”

Now aged 75, Mr Anderson said the rally may have to change to survive.

He added: “I like cars. I like the smell of them. I like the noise and I’m not sure that the younger generation appreciate that.

“They might be quite happy to drive into an electric car and drive off and whizz away into the future, but I feel quite different.

“Yes it is a bit sad but things have changed in the world. And it might be too that the Automobile Club DeMonaco might need to change the regulations for cars.

“It might be in the future it might be all electric or hydrogen or whatever comes next. It certainly won’t be the internal combustion engine.”