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

Classic mods – what could add value to your classic, what would cause value to decrease?

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 27th November, 2017

It’s a tricky balance when it comes down to maintaining your classic car. But what causes values to drop and rise? One word – originality!

40 Years of the British-Built Vauxhall Cavalier

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 27th November, 2017

Lancaster Insurance Classic and Supercar Show Raises £46,500 for Charity

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 23rd November, 2017

On Friday 17th November at Sherborne Castle, home of the car show for the past 15 years, cheques were presented to the following charities from the money raised at the 2017 show:

Walter Hayes Trophy Review

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 23rd November, 2017

The Walter Hayes Trophy is arguably the highlight of the Formula Ford season! Historic, classic and modern cars all come together for a knockout format finale at Silverstone in early November.

THE LIKELY LADS – A TRIBUTE TO RODNEY BEWES

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 22nd November, 2017

The passing of Rodney Bewes on 21st November inevitably conjured memories of his most famous role, that of the socially aspirational Vauxhall driver Bob Ferris.

50 Years of the Austin 3-Litre

  • Andy Roberts |
  • 22nd November, 2017

If any car deserved the title of ‘misunderstood’ it is the Austin 3-Litre, one of the last products of the British Motor Corporation (BMC). Insure your classic car today with Lancaster Insurance

Seven Splendid Special Edition Minis

  • Andy Roberts |
  • 21st November, 2017

This is far from an exhaustive short list of the vast number of special Minis – merely seven examples that caught my eye during the 1970s and 1980s…

Wipe New

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 20th November, 2017

Pride of Ownership - Cortina MK. III

  • Andy Roberts |
  • 20th November, 2017

The Ford Cortina Mk. III is possibly the most uber-1970s car in British motoring history, a vehicle to be mentioned in the same breath as Amazin Rasin Bars, The Goodies, Watney’s Red Barrel, Noddy Holder crooning Coz I Love You and the Raleigh Chopper.

DVD of The Week - That Riviera Touch

  • Andy Roberts |
  • 16th November, 2017

In 1964 Morecambe and Wise signed a contract to make three films for the Rank Organisation.

Do You Remember The Talbot Tagora?

  • Andy Roberts |
  • 16th November, 2017

Do You Remember The Talbot Tagora? There are some cars that almost literally became part of our everyday life but the Talbot Tagora was not one of them.

Do You Remember – The Renault 16?

  • Andy Roberts |
  • 15th November, 2017

43 years ago, I encountered a car that I genuinely thought belonged in the world of Star Trek or Doctor Who; i.e. the front windows and the door locks were operated at the press of a button.

2017 LANCASTER INSURANCE CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW REPORT

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 14th November, 2017

Imagine one Christmas you had been given – or ‘borrowed’ from the sideboard – an entire tin of Quality Street and were therefore faced with the exceedingly pleasurable dilemma of choosing your first Green Triangle or Caramel Swirl.

Around the world classics. Quirky classics from lesser known car manufacturing countries

  • Lancaster Insurance Services |
  • 14th November, 2017

Seven great classic cars that weren’t built where you thought they were