LANCASTER CLASSIC CAR NEWS

Relive the 2018 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show

The Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery, took place on Friday 9th to Sunday 11th November and as the grand 'season finale', it was not to be missed. Click to view our video of the 2018 show.

60 YEARS OF THE ROVER P5

Some of the greatest motor cars wear their distinction lightly – cars such as the Rover P5 3-Litre.

THE HAPPY EATER REVISITED

My recent celebration of the Little Chef had prompted me to return to its fiercest rival, for you cannot think of dining on the move during the 1970s and 1980s without also thinking of the Happy Eater.

MEET THE OWNER – PAUL THOMSON AND HIS AUSTIN METRO STANDARD

‘No frills - no radio, head rests rear wiper or glove box’ - that’s how Paul Thomson describes his 1983 Austin Metro Standard which is ‘one of nine base models left on the road’.

40 YEARS OF THE OPEL MONZA

40 years ago, British motorists were introduced to a coupe that was not only one of the most luxurious cars to bear the Opel badge and a fastback alternative to the Senator saloon but the ideal grand tourer for the professional who could afford a BMW – but who decided not to.

MEET THE OWNER – MARTIN HAMILTON AND HIS MORRIS OXFORD SERIES IV TRAVELLER

60 years of the British motorway

The gentlemen with the Bedford CA are installing one of the latest Calvert-Kinneir signs for a new type of highway.

MEET THE OWNER – MARTIN HAMILTON AND HIS MORRIS OXFORD SERIES IV TRAVELLER

In the late 1950s, an Oxford Series IV Traveller owner was the sort of chap or chappess who knew their position in life; pipe-smoking, Mrs. Dale’s Diary on the BBC Home Service and regarding the music of Lonnie Donegan as a threat to civilisation.

60 YEARS OF THE MGA TWIN-CAM

1958 was quite a year for the British Motor Corporation and in that summer, they launched a sports car that instantly became the object of desire for all motor enthusiasts.

CAR OF THE MONTH – JONATHAN SCROG ELLIS AND HIS 1984 MINI

‘There are “Mini Drivers” and “Mini Owners”. The former uses their car but put it in the garage at the first signs of trouble, but the latter do all they can, come what may’.

60 YEARS OF VOLVO IN THE UK

The name of Volvo is so well established in the UK that is very difficult to believe that there was once a time when it was only enthusiasts of rallying, and ‘foreign cars’ who knew of the Swedish marque.

70 YEARS OF THE MORRIS MINOR

A memory – it is 1975 and we are travelling towards Lewes in my maternal grandfather’s dark green four-door 1955 Morris Minor Series II.