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
The Hillman Minx Californian -“Drive in style for less per mile”
In 1953, Hillman introduced a new model for the dashing young driver who resembled Leslie Phillips or Diana Dors.
The 1961 Jaguar E-Type ‘Flat Floor’ Roadster - “the most advanced sports car in the world”.
Looking at this 1961 E-Type ‘Flat Foor’ Roadster makes you consider the Jaguar’s impact on the average British motorist of 1961.
A DAY AT THE 1965 LONDON MOTOR SHOW
The 20th of October 1965 and the first question is whether to attend the London Motor Show during the day, and spend a whole pound, or wait until five pm, when the price drops to ten shillings. That is before you consider the many and various temptations of Earls Court:
“The Ambassador always got through” - Suraj Karavadra and his 1995 Hindustan Ambassador
For so many of us, there are cars you remember all your life. When Suraj was eight, he flew with his grandfather to India for the summer holiday.
Meet the Owner – Adam Lancaster and his Police Mini Van
Sometimes, a classic car joins your fleet as if by magic. Adam first saw his 1979 Police Mini Van 30 months ago.
“Prestige. Power. Performance” - The Rover Sterling Mk. 1
The year is 1987, and an eight-year-old named Alex is mesmerised by his father’s latest car – an “Azure Blue” Rover Sterling. Little did he release that in 2016; he would be the proud owner of – apart from the 825i in the British Motor Museum - the earliest surviving production 800.