LANCASTER CLASSIC CAR NEWS
We’ve insured our first electric conversion classic!
Electric vehicles are the hot topic of conversation at the moment and it’s certainly split the opinion of enthusiasts up and down the country as to whether they would convert their classic.
Our Club of the Month revealed!
Designed as the European equivalent of the Ford Mustang, the Ford Capri was first introduced in 1969 and has an established following up and down the country!
Drive In Revisited
Drive In was Thames Television’s prestige motoring programme, commencing in 1972. The footage kindly uploaded to YouTube by Pearson describes the changing face of motoring in the 1970s.
THE EARLY DAYS OF THE MOT TEST
The MOT test has once again recently been in the news, and it is so much a part of motoring vocabulary that it is intriguing to consider its roots. The 1950s saw a vast increase in private car ownership – from 18% of British households in 1950 to nearly 40% at the end of the decade.
MEET THE OWNER – DAMIEN RYAN AND HIS AUSTIN 1800
For too long, the ‘Landcrab’ family was overlooked in favour of other BMC front-wheel-drive cars.
THE VAUXHALL CHEVETTE: A CELEBRATION
Debates about Britain’s first hatchback are often as tedious as The Best James Bond. The Austin A40 ‘Farina’ Countryman of 1959 is probably the original ‘Two Box’ car with a tailgate, while the Austin Maxi of ten years later was the first UK built FWD transverse engine hatch.
MEET THE OWNER – TIM GIDDY AND HIS JENSEN-HEALEY
I used to have a TR6 back in my youth, which in my mind, is a good comparison car. I would say they are like different generations, the Triumph is very much harking back to an older generation, and the Jensen-Healey feels much more modern.
MEET THE OWNER – PAUL THOMPSON AND HIS PEUGEOT 304 CABRIOLET
In the early 1970s, Paul Thompson was an apprentice at a Peugeot dealer, and one of the regular customers drove a 304 Cabriolet. “I sat in it at dinner time, and that’s when I promised myself I’d get one, one day - but on £14 a week I thought it would have to stay a dream.”
THE VAUXHALL MAGNUM – A CELEBRATION
Last year we celebrated the fiftieth birthday of the Firenza, which neatly brings us to the 1973 revision of the Vauxhall’s HC family.