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
MEET THE OWNER – MICHAEL BIRKETT AND HIS COLT SIGMAS
Michael Birkett is a such a connoisseur of fine Colt cars that one Sigma was not enough. To augment his 1978 model, he recently acquired an automatic version owned by Siraj Farook, which we featured in a recent blog.
ITALY’S MOST IMPORTANT POST-WAR CAR? THE FIAT 600D
John Stock’s 1964 Fiat 600D is not a rare example of a RHD UK-market car, but one of the most important cars in the history of the Italian motor industry. Here are 25 facts about this remarkable motor car.
A Visit to the 1955 London Motor Show
The year is 1955, it is the 19th of October, and the place is Earls Court. The 40th London Motor Show looks set to be the greatest since the first post-war event in 1948 and certainly worth investing 2/6d in the show guide.
“The XJ That Went To Finishing School” - Ken Sadler’s Daimler Super V8 LWB
It has been 16 years since the Daimler name vanished from the UK’s new car market with the demise of the Super Eight, and cars such as Ken’s 1998 Super V8 are a reminder of what we have lost