LANCASTER CLASSIC CAR NEWS
Our club of the month: Orkney Vintage Club
Orkney Vintage Club was formed in November 1982. The first meeting, which attracted about two dozen people, was organized by teachers from Kirkwall Grammar School who used old engines for the tuition of technology students.
New research published for Deaf Awareness Week 2025
A recent survey conducted by award-winning charity, Auditory Verbal UK, for Deaf Awareness Week reveals that only a third (33%) of UK adults think a child born profoundly deaf today can learn to speak as well as a child without hearing loss*.
Twin Engine 2CV – A 1964 Sahara
As any motoring enthusiast will tell you that there is no such car as an “ordinary” Citroën 2CV. But this example being sold by https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1514374 is one of the most remarkable vehicles you are ever likely to meet. Here are 30 facts about the 2CV Sahara – the Citroën with one engine in the front and a second in the rear -
“Certain to bring admiring glances from friends and business associates” - The Vauxhall VX 2300 GLS
How many of us collected brochures in our younger days? In 1977 this writer avidly read the latest Vauxhall all-range brochure, starting with the Chevette and progressing via the Viva HC, Magnum and Cavalier to the majesty that was the VX 2300 GLS.
MEET THE OWNER – GLYN HAYLER AND HIS RENAULT LAGUNA MK.1
Anyone who visited the Lancaster Insurance Classic Car Show last year might have encountered a quietly handsome ‘Q Car’ on the Renault Owners’ Club stand. Glyn, the proud custodian of a Laguna Mk. 1, points out:
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:
The Jensen FF - “Here is a car which can be driven as no car has ever been driven”.
You are looking at a car that was so far removed from the everyday motoring sights of the UK in the late 1960s that it was virtual science-fiction to the average driver.