LANCASTER CLASSIC CAR NEWS
Meet the Owner - Allan Symes and his Talbot Alpine by expert writer Andrew Roberts
Allan is the proud owner of a sorely over-looked classic car. The original Chrysler-badged Alpine was Car of the Year 1976, and yet it seems to pass by many enthusiasts. Today, a mere 17 examples of the later Talbot-badged version remain on the road.
Celebrating the Pride of Longbridge with our Car Club team and a Rover SD1 2600 Vanden Plas
The ultimate celebration of the British motor industry was held in Cofton Park next to the historic Longbridge factory in April, with reports of over 1,000 cars on display. Our Car Club Executive Brian, who was in attendance, reports…
It was a pleasure to sponsor this year’s Broadland MG Owners Club Heritage Run
This year’s Heritage run is the 33rd organised by the Broadlands MG Owners Club, an annual fund-raising event for local charities. Previous beneficiaries have included The Big C Cancer charity.
MEET THE OWNER – HARRY SEAGER AND HIS BEDFORD CF PICK-UP
“It is great fun - quite quick for what it is, and the turning circle is rather incredible. It turns more heads than any other car I have”.
A “Director-Level Saloon” - the Vauxhall Senator 24V
In 2016 Alex Sebbinger-Sparks of the Modern Classic Executive Cars group acquired one of Vauxhall’s finest sports saloons of its era - a Senator 24V.
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
The Checker Aerobus
Put simply, this 1970 Aerobus sold by https://www.cosmopolitanmotors.com/ is 22 feet 6 inches long, has eight side doors, seats 12 occupants on four rows of bench seats, and has space for 40 cubic feet of luggage.