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The Practical Classics Classic Car and Restoration Show, with Discovery, is this weekend and we can’t wait to see you there!

The 20 finalists in the first Lancaster Insurance Pride of Ownership of 2019 have been revealed ahead of the Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show, with Discovery, at Birmingham’s NEC from 22-24 March.

Spring has truly sprung as the Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show, with Discovery, returns to Birmingham’s NEC from 22-24 March for its biggest show yet with over 170 classic motoring clubs and over 1,300 cars on display.

Some us older types have sometimes mused on how there seem to be more XR2 Mk. Is on the road than actually left the factory and today you are far less likely to encounter an early base model Fiesta.

Bex of Artbybex will be joining us on our stand at the Practical Classics Classic Car and Restoration Show, with Discovery! This month at the NEC (Friday 22nd March – Sunday 24th March), we’ll be exhibiting in Hall 5 and Bex will be painting LIVE on our ‘Lancaster Insurance Workshop‘ stand.

In the words of Gary King, his two Datsun Sunny 120Ys offer ‘reliability and driveability really, as they are such an easy car to drive, the clutch is so light it’s like a throttle, and the gearbox is so light you can use your little finger to change gears.

After handing Robbie Knight the keys to a Golf GTi late last year, Lancaster Insurance are thrilled to be giving away a 1991 Mk1 Mazda Eunos Roadster to celebrate the 30th anniversary of MX-5.

In the 1970s and 1980s, it seemed to be an unofficial rule that any school trip had to be undertaken using a J2-based minibus.

Nuffield Place nearly Henley-on-Thames is always worth a visit, but on Monday 25th February the front of the property was festooned with an array of very fine motor cars.

‘I tend to go for the rare’ observes Alan Drake but if anything, he is understating the exclusiveness of his 1979 Ford Granada.

For many years, I have been an enthusiast of Fiats of all ages, shapes and sizes. The sight of that police 2300 Berlina in a re-screening of After The Fox made me crave its tail-finned magnificence and one of the highlights of any 1970s “Poliziottesco” film is the sheer number of 124s in the background of the mean streets of Rome.

In the background of British films and television programmes of the 1950s and 1960s such as The Ladykillers, The Baron or the Look at Life travelogues you will often see a three-wheeled delivery vehicle in the distinctive red and cream livery of British Railways.