The Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery, is honoured to celebrate many automotive anniversaries when it returns to Birmingham’s NEC from 10-12 November.
An exclusive UK premiere of the new series of Wheeler Dealers, featuring show stalwart Mike Brewer with his new lead mechanic and co-host Ant Anstead, will be held at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery, on Saturday 11th November.
The name of Vanden Plas is one of the oldest in motoring history and the Owners’ Club is delighted to be showcasing five of its key models at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery - including one of British Leyland’s rarest prototypes.
As #TeamMike is preparing their Ford Escort XR3i, #TeamAnt is engaged in recapturing that glorious period of Alfa Romeo’s Formula One racing during the early 1950s. The original 158 Alfetta (‘Little Alfa’) dates from 1938 with Gioacchino Colombo devising a lightweight eight-cylinder 1,479cc DOHC engine that was fitted with a Roots supercharger.
As #TeamMike is hard at work, resorting a 1989 Ford Escort XR3i for this year’s Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, this is the perfect opportunity to remember the original model that caused such a genuine sensation back in August 1980.
September #ClassicRumble update from Mike Brewer and Ant Antead. Just over month to go before we all start heading to Birmingham for the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery.
We’ve got just five weeks to go until the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show with its theme of ‘family ties’, so we asked one of our customers and his dad for their classic story.
Why in my admittedly biased view, is The Fast Lady one of the greatest pictures in the history of civilisation? Well, this trailer might provide a slight clue.
This year marks 70 years of not just one of the greatest Citroens ever made but a true French automotive icon.
In March 1967, Honda launched a new car that proved to be a key model in establishing the marque with car buyers around the world.
Buying a classic car should be one of the most exciting purchases of your life. These cars are treats for most people - a significant investment of money, time and emotion. Yet the reality is that many people find it a process fraught with danger and risk.
The Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery, is all set for another gigantic ‘season finale’ of the classic scene at Birmingham’s NEC from Friday 10 to Sunday 12 November.
For the first time in a while, qualifying saw all the Formula Fordsters on track at the same time meaning it was busy! I managed a decent time on one of the first laps putting in 4th. On my last lap I had a green first sector but unfortunately came across traffic and couldn’t put the lap together so finished P6 on the grid.
Back in 1981, a time when ownership of a Sony C7 Betamax video recorder was your passport to social success, motorists on a restricted budget were offered a new form of an economy car.
Rain, tinned Goblin beef burgers, UHT milk and Carry On England being screened in the club house. Those are my memories of caravan holidays during the 1970s, so it should come as no surprise that at least one holidaymaker was rumoured to have attempted a Steve McQueen style escape, albeit while riding a Honda PC50 moped.
On the 17th June 1953, a time when the flashing indicator was greeted as dangerously radical in many parts of Britain, one of the world’s oldest automotive marques, launched a truly ‘groundbreaking’ model. The Panhard Dyna Z was a fairly large front wheel drive saloon with an aluminium body that had the lowest drag coefficient of any mass-produced car of its era.
1963 saw the Rootes Group introduce two high -profile cars, one entirely new and the other based on its existing lineup of medium-sized cars. The former was, of course, the Hillman Imp and the latter was the Humber Sceptre, one of the most downright agreeable cars to hail from Coventry.
The first Peugeot I can remember was a small and extremely smart hatchback darting amongst the red and cream Leyland Atlantean buses and Morris Oxford taxis of downtown Southampton back in the mid-1970s.
Sales techniques have inevitably changed over the past 60 years but almost anyone watching this dealer launch film for the first Vauxhall Victor will instantly crave a Super finished in Admiral Red.
When I first looked at The New Avengers box set, my initial thought was ‘What a splendid advertisement for British Leyland cars’.
