LANCASTER CLASSIC CAR NEWS
DO YOU REMEMBER THE ALPINE AND THE SOLARA?
Texan chocolate bars, youths in shopping precincts desperately trying to look like Johnny Rotten or Captain Sensible, How on Southern Television - and the Chrysler Alpine. These are all everyday sights and experiences from the late 1970s that now seem impossibly remote in time, especially the Car of the Year 1976.
DO YOU REMEMBER THE LANCIA BETA HPE?
Some cars effortlessly exude an air of good living - fine wines, Belgian chocolates etc. – just as there are those vehicles that seem to have been created for the purpose of making the driver feel like a pauper.
Lancaster Insurance renews its sponsorship of the MG Owners’ Club Race Championship
Lancaster Insurance is delighted to announce its continuing support as headline sponsor of the MG Owners’ Club (MGOC) Race Championship 2018.
CAR OF THE MONTH – THE AUSTIN/MG/ROVER MONTEGO
When you have a meeting at Elstree Studios, it is essential to arrive in style. Your transport should reflect your hopes, dreams and aspirations – and that is why I was delighted to be chauffeured by Tanya Field in her 1994 Montego Countryman.
Club of the month: BMW Car Club of Great Britain
In the year that sees two BMW anniversaries, 50 years of the 2002 and the E3 "New Six" saloon, our February club of the month goes to ‘BMW Car Club of Great Britain’.
Custom-built ‘Meteor Special’ to appear at the Lancaster Insurance Classic and Supercars Show - Sherborne Castle
Organisers of the Lancaster Insurance Classic and Supercars Show are thrilled to have been chosen as the venue for a recently-completed ‘Meteor Special’ to be shown for the very first time.
FIVE FANTASTIC FWD MGS
As any MG enthusiast will tell you, the Octagon badge is as much associated with fine saloons as it is sports cars, and so here is a quintet of FWD models from the 1960s to the 1980s that each made quite an impact on their debut.
1980 FORD ESCORT XR3 TO BE AUCTIONED
In late 1980 there was one question constantly asked by the nation’s racing enthusiasts, fans of The Professionals , and, to be quite honest, boy-racers - how could any FWD hatchback possible match the RS Escorts?
DO YOU REMEMBER THE VAUXHALL CARLTON MK.I AND THE VICEROY?
One of the side effects of the passage of time, apart from noticing how young police officers look, is that how certain once respected cars slowly vanish from our roads.
DVD OF THE WEEK - CHRISTINE
On the 23rd January, the nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced, which prompted me to think of the many cinematic greats and near-misses with the name of the car in the titles.
DO YOU REMEMBER THE HILLMAN SUPER MINX?
For many of us it is the smallest details of an old car that can evoke such powerful memories – the transmission whine on a Vauxhall Viva HB, the tip-up seats on a four-door Morris 1100 – and the oval shaped interior mirror on a 1965 Hillman Super Minx.
1948 LAND ROVER SHOW CAR DISCOVERED
A major joy of the classic car world is the finding of a famous or historically important model in a barn, a field or even beneath some bramble bushes. The original Saint ‘Volvo’ and the Bullitt ‘Jump Mustang’ are two famous examples and seven years before Genevieve entered production, the 1904 Darracq was found in a London scrap yard.