LANCASTER CLASSIC CAR NEWS
Win a Car 2023 - Austin Healey Sprite MK4
With fresh bright work, wire wheels, and a smart black hood and new carpets, this Austin Healey Sprite MK4 is a car which had no expense spared in its journey to become somebody’s most loved classic. It has got a fantastic history and could be YOURS, if you enter Lancaster Insurance Services latest FREE competition.
Meet Matt Richardson - Furious Driving
Meet the owner, or meet the YouTuber? We should be told. A 1972 Rover 2000 P6 set Matt Richardson on the path to YouTube stardom. ‘I’ve had it since I was 17 – it’s not going anywhere,’ he said. Since then, the projects have fed the channel – and the channel has fed the projects.
WIN this Deluxe package!
This quarter, Lancaster Insurance Services are giving you the chance to win: A weekend stay at Classic Lodges Bagden Hall Hotel with bed & breakfast and dinner. A year’s National Trust Membership. To drive 3 cars from any collection with the Drive Dad’s Car experience.
Clean air zones affecting classics
Clean air zones are spreading – will they affect your classic car? Classic car owners need to stop worrying about clean air zones – at least if their vehicles are aged 40 years or older. For owners of so-called modern classics (i.e. anything younger than that), it gets complicated.
Staying Positive: “Just remove the engine and gearbox” to make a classic electric vehicle
There are three main reasons why you wouldn’t convert a classic car to battery power. In Part 2 of Staying Positive, Jérôme André, editor of the EV Builders’ Guide, identified cost as a major factor.
Behind the Shutters: Katie Bushell
Workshop technician and YouTuber, Katie Bushell, has been into cars for as long as she can remember. Coming from a car-mad family, she was bound to end up a petrolhead, with her VW Scirocco GT2 appearing at shows the length and breadth of the country.
THE 2023 PRACTICAL CLASSICS CLASSIC CAR AND RESTORATION SHOW
There it was, basking in its orange glory on the Lancaster Insurance Pride of Ownership stand – the vehicle of my childhood dreams. This was a 1977 Escort 1300 Sport Mk. II, one of a mere handful of survivors, and a vehicle that belonged in the Ford brochure of that era.
MEET THE OWNER – CHRISTOPHER SHURLOCK AND HIS MG COLLECTION
I had no interest in MG cars as a young man and certainly not as a family man when other things were more important. It was only when I was approaching retirement in 2001 that I was looking for new interests. A chance trip to our local MG-Rover dealers had me looking at a new Solar Red MGF in the showroom.
THE RELIANT KITTEN – THE 57.5 MPG CAR
The name of Reliant is so associated with three-wheelers that its small four-wheel saloons are too often overlooked. They launched the Kitten at the 1975 Earls Court Motor to replace the long-established Rebel. Your friendly local dealer would tell you about the 24 feet turning circle and the remarkable fuel economy from the 850cc light-alloy engine – Reliant marketed the Kitten as the “57.5 mpg car.”
The Lancia Fulvia Berlina at 60
If you were visiting the Geneva Motor Show in 1963, the new model on the Lancia stand would probably have drawn your eye. The bodywork, by Piero Castagnero, was low-key in the manner of many bourgeoisie Italian saloons, but to lift the bonnet was to be mesmerised.
The Day I Encountered a Series 79 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon
“Starting a 79 calls for a faintly disconcerting procedure; you turn the key and then press the throttle pedal to the floor, thereby activating a vacuum operated starter button.
MEET THE OWNER – CHRISTINE LYNNE BROWN AND HER COMMER HIGHWAYMAN
The Commer was once part of the fabric of life in the UK – delivering milk, bread and groceries, attending to a telephone box vandalised by the local scooter boy gang or even starring in one of the best-remembered public information films of the 1970s:
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