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Keep up to date with the latest news and events from the world of classic cars.

The 2018 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show – Part 2

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 15th November, 2018

How can you possibly hope to select a personal Car of The Show out of 3,000 vehicles and 300 club stands?

STARS OF THE LANCASTER INSURANCE CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW – ANTHONY ELLIS AND HIS POLICE MAESTRO CLUBMAN

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 15th November, 2018

The name of the 1992 Maestro 1.3 Clubman that belongs to Anthony Ellis is the wholly appropriate “Juliet Maestro’.

The 2018 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show – Part 1

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 15th November, 2018

My first impression of the 2018 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show was merely this – any Austin Maxi will now turn heads, but a Maxi with a fawn vinyl roof and a Webasto is not so much eye-catching as utterly decadent.

MEET THE OWNERS – STEPHEN AND SUSAN ROSE AND THEIR 1969 AUSTIN MAXI

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 13th November, 2018

If you are devotee of archive television (which I certainly am) one of the major fascinations is the street scenes.

A LANDMARK YEAR FOR THE LANCASTER INSURANCE CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW, WITH DISCOVERY

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 13th November, 2018

There were so many landmarks to celebrate at this year’s Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery.

70 YEARS OF THE 2CV - AND THE 2CV FAMILY

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 6th November, 2018

The design brief was ‘A car capable of driving across a ploughed field with a sheep in the back and a pile of eggs on the front seat’.

SIX SPLENDID SPECIAL EDITIONS

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 2nd November, 2018

Or, half a dozen limited edition models that created a stir on their launch

FINAL LINE-UP REVEALED FOR LANCASTER INSURANCE PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP AUTUMN AWARDS

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 1st November, 2018

With a fantastic selection of classics already announced, the final six cars have now been chosen to compete for the Lancaster Insurance Pride of Ownership autumn title.

Club of the Month - The Wolseley Owners Club

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 30th October, 2018

The Wolseley Owners Club, a not for profit organisation, was launched in May 2011.

CAR OF THE MONTH – RICHARD THORN’S LOTUS ESPRIT V8

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 30th October, 2018

‘It sounds just awesome’. This is just one of the reasons why Richard Thorn enjoys his 1996 Esprit V8.

70 Years of the Holden

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 29th October, 2018

On Monday 29th November 1948, Ben Chifley, the then Prime Minister of Australia, unveiled the first ever Holden car – the mighty 48-215.

DO YOU REMEMBER – THE ORIGINAL FORD GRANADA GHIA?

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 26th October, 2018

In March 1974 Ford unveiled their latest flagship – and their first car to bear the Ghia badge.

DO YOU REMEMBER – THE SIMCA 1000?

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 24th October, 2018

‘Chic’ is an incredibly overused term (especially when an estate agent is trying to sell you a property that managed to escape demolition circa 1987), but it really does apply to the Simca 1000.

Lancaster Insurance embraces ‘Built to Last’ theme by opening ‘Lancaster Cars’ at the NEC!

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 23rd October, 2018

Lancaster Insurance, headline sponsor of the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery, will be highlighting the evolution of old to new and welcoming show attendees to visit ‘Lancaster Cars’ on their stand in Hall One!