CLASSIC CAR EVENTS
Tickets are now on sale for the Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show!
🚗🚗🚗 Kick-start the motoring season with a visit to this fantastic event at the Birmingham NEC, 21st - 23rd March 2025! 🚗🚗🚗
Secure your spot at the Classic Car & Restoration Show now! Use code PTLAN for £2 off with Lancaster Insurance.
Whether you are looking to reignite your passion for cars, finish a restoration project, purchase a classic, or simply want to reminisce with family and friends over the beautiful completed classic cars on display - this is the event for you.
Bringing together 1300+ cars on display; 160+ car clubs representing a wide variety of marques and models; 250+ exhibitors and autojumblers including restoration companies, services providers and product suppliers; the Classic Car Auction; celebrities; car competitions; practical workshops on restoration skills and lots more.
Classic Motor Show 2025
Thank you for joining us at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show in 2024!
We had a fantastic time at the show talking to all of the classic vehicle enthusiasts who made the trip to the NEC over the weekend.
We're already planning for 2025 - make sure you have the dates in your diary! 7-9th November 2025...
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Cars & Coffee
Ours Cars and Coffee events are BACK by popular demand!
After a fantastic event on 14th September, we're pleased to confirm the return of our popular Cars and Coffee mornings at our St Ives headquarters.
We're currently confirming dates for future events, however you can register your interest to attend one of these by contacting our Car Club Manager Brian - brianthomas@markerstudy.com
Here's what to expect from these events:
The Lancaster Insurance team provide hot drinks and light refreshments for all events. If you’re wondering what sort of vehicles to expect, previous events have seen a huge mix of cars including kit cars, pre-war motors, 4x4s, mid-century classics, race cars, modified vehicles, commercials and campers and lots of retro runabouts and future classics.
The events will run from 10am-12noon and are completely FREE to attend. Classics of all conditions are welcome to the event and every car is made to feel welcome, whether it’s a work in progress or a concours show winner.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
For previous events please check out our gallery pages.
Did you know we featured a Porsche 917 and 962 at the Lancaster Insurance Services Classic and Supercars Show back in 2019 at Sherborne Castle? Find out more. We were also joined by Derek Bell MBE, who enjoyed one of the most successful, diverse and wide-ranging careers of any British racing driver - you read more about him here.
LANCASTER CLASSIC CAR NEWS
Meet the Owner – Rob Haycock and his 1965 Slough-Built Citroën DS
Quite simply, I crave Rob’s Citroën DS. Aside from being one of the most beautiful cars in the history of the world, his 1965 example is not only to Pallas specification but also assembled in the Home Counties.
SYMBOL OF SUCCESS – FORD CORTINA GHIA ESTATE
Imagine the impact of taking delivery of a Ford Cortina 2.0 Ghia Mk. V Estate in 1979. The sable over chocolate brown Durham cloth and crushed velour upholstery would induce envy in virtually all your business colleagues.
MEET THE OWNER – MARTIN MALTAS AND HIS 1979 DODGE TELEVISION LICENCE DETECTOR VAN
Martin Maltas is the proud custodian of one of the most fascinating vehicles of the 2024 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show – even if it is one you may not have welcomed in the 1970s.
THE FIRST VAUXHALL ESTATE CAR FROM LUTON
The news that the Vauxhall factory in Luton is expected to close will sadden many readers. The time when cars such as this 1961 Victor F-Type Estate departed the plant seems utterly distant.
THE LAST OF THE LINE – THE JAGUAR 420G
Some years ago, I described the Mk. X in The Telegraph as: “the last really louche Jaguar; a link to a lost world of chorus girls, black market gin and looking out for a police Wolseley in the rear-view mirror”.
WHY I CRAVED A VAUXHALL VICTOR 2300S
It is early 1975, and the two highlights of the week are The Goodies on BBC2 and the parental copy of Motor. And, if my memory is correct, it was in the latter I saw an advertisement for a car that epitomised style and glamour and would not be prone to breaking down on the A27.