PRINCETON — William Van Dierendonck of Princeton and his 1940 Hupmobile recently won a very prestigious award from the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA).

Van Dierendonck won the AACA’s President’s Cup for the Central Division at the organization’s 77th annual meeting held in Philadelphia, Pa., on Feb. 9.

“I was shocked to be nominated for this award and really, really surprised to win the national award,” he said. “I never have heard anybody winning the first time they were nominated. It is unusual to be picked the first year you are nominated. I talked to one guy who had been nominated five times before he was picked.”