CLASSIC CAR EVENTS
Classic Motor Show 2025
Tickets are on sale from 8th May for this years’ Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show!
🚗🚗🚗 Join us at the motoring season finale at Birmingham NEC, 7th – 9th November 2025! 🚗🚗🚗
- Over 3,000 classic cars and bikes on display, the most in the UK!
- A record-breaking 338 motoring clubs in attendance
- Browse and shop from 350+ specialist traders, including the UK’s largest indoor autojumble
- See the usual must-haves: spectacular displays, celebrity appearances, and expert insights
- Choose from over 500 classic cars and bikes on sale
- Catch your favourite motoring celebrities on stage
Don’t forget to use code PTLAN for £2 off a full price day ticket.
Cars & Coffee
Ours Cars and Coffee events are BACK by popular demand!
After a fantastic event on 14th September, we're pleased to confirm the return of our popular Cars and Coffee mornings at our St Ives headquarters.
We're currently confirming dates for future events, however you can register your interest to attend one of these by contacting our Car Club Manager Brian - brianthomas@markerstudy.com
Here's what to expect from these events:
The Lancaster Insurance team provide hot drinks and light refreshments for all events. If you’re wondering what sort of vehicles to expect, previous events have seen a huge mix of cars including kit cars, pre-war motors, 4x4s, mid-century classics, race cars, modified vehicles, commercials and campers and lots of retro runabouts and future classics.
The events will run from 10am-12noon and are completely FREE to attend. Classics of all conditions are welcome to the event and every car is made to feel welcome, whether it’s a work in progress or a concours show winner.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
For previous events please check out our gallery pages.
Did you know we featured a Porsche 917 and 962 at the Lancaster Insurance Services Classic and Supercars Show back in 2019 at Sherborne Castle? Find out more. We were also joined by Derek Bell MBE, who enjoyed one of the most successful, diverse and wide-ranging careers of any British racing driver - you read more about him here.
LANCASTER CLASSIC CAR NEWS
1964 Ford Consul Cortina De Luxe - “small-car savings…Big-car everything else”
Dean Webster’s Consul Cortina De Luxe - https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1853032 - is a vivid reminder of how it was the prefect car for its market on launch in 1962.
Meet The Owner – Phil Caunt and his Messerschmitt KR200
“I owned a (Heinkel) Trojan and three BMW Isettas years ago, but never a Messerschmitt. So, I thought... why not!”. Phil’s KR200 could never be accused of being conventional.
Meet the Owner – Frank Claypole and his Vauxhall Viva HC 1800 GLS
Signs that time is passing; police officers looking younger, complaining about modern music – and noting there is apparently only one HC-series Vauxhall Viva 1800 GLS on the road in the UK.
Setting the Style – The Ford Consul Classic
Some years ago, I wrote in Classics Monthly I wrote of how in 1961: