Can you smell the polish and petrol already? The Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show is gearing up for another epic year – and the numbers are in. Over 310 motoring clubs are joining the fun from 7–9 November, including 16 making their show debut.
Many readers will be instantly familiar with Vic Young’s 1963 Morris Mini Traveller. It has been a star of the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC, featured on the cover of Practical Classics, and looks as though it has just left a Morris dealership some 62 years ago.
How long has the club been going and how did it start?
In 1953, Hillman introduced a new model for the dashing young driver who resembled Leslie Phillips or Diana Dors.
Looking at this 1961 E-Type ‘Flat Foor’ Roadster makes you consider the Jaguar’s impact on the average British motorist of 1961.
The 20th of October 1965 and the first question is whether to attend the London Motor Show during the day, and spend a whole pound, or wait until five pm, when the price drops to ten shillings. That is before you consider the many and various temptations of Earls Court:
For so many of us, there are cars you remember all your life. When Suraj was eight, he flew with his grandfather to India for the summer holiday.
Sometimes, a classic car joins your fleet as if by magic. Adam first saw his 1979 Police Mini Van 30 months ago.
The year is 1987, and an eight-year-old named Alex is mesmerised by his father’s latest car – an “Azure Blue” Rover Sterling. Little did he release that in 2016; he would be the proud owner of – apart from the 825i in the British Motor Museum - the earliest surviving production 800.
Some versions of a popular car are unfairly neglected by the classic press. The Series I Automatic appears to have far less of a profile than the MG and Vanden Plas, yet it is just as important to the Metro’s story.
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