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Lancaster Insurance supports Land Rover Monthly and Billing Off-Road Show 2018 in its GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title attempt
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 27th March, 2018
Lancaster Insurance is thrilled to announce that it is supporting Land Rover Monthly (LRM) and the Billing Off-Road Show 2018 in its bid to set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the ‘Largest parade of Land Rover/Range Rovers’.
PRACTICAL CLASSICS CLASSIC CAR AND RESTORATION SHOW, WITH DISCOVERY, BREAKS ALL RECORDS
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 27th March, 2018
This year’s Practical Classics Classic Car and Restoration Show, with Discovery, broke all records – record crowds, record number of cars and clubs, record fundraising and more restoration and rust than ever before!
NEC RESTORATION SHOW PART I – WHAT’S IN A NAME?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 27th March, 2018
One burning question of the Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show 2018 – asides from plotting how many of the wondrous vehicles could I plausibly smuggle home – is that should a car be automatically given a name?
Club of the month - Mk1 Golf Owners Club
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 27th March, 2018
This month’s club of the month goes to the Mk1 Golf Owners Club, who were also the recipient of last year’s ‘Outstanding Use of Social Media’ at the 2017 National Car Club Awards!
MARVELLOUS MARQUES HEAD FOR LANCASTER INSURANCE PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP SPRING FINAL
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 21st March, 2018
The final line-up of the spring final of the Lancaster Insurance Pride of Ownership has been revealed ahead of the Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show, with Discovery, held at Birmingham’s NEC from 23-25 March – and it’s a fantastic mix of marvellous marques!
Win a Mk1 Golf GTi with Lancaster Insurance
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 21st March, 2018
Lancaster Insurance is thrilled to have launched its most exciting competition ever, giving the classic car community the chance to win a fabulous Mk1 Golf GTi!
THE SPRING PRIDE – MEET DORIS THE AUSTIN-HEALEY SPRITE MK. I
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 20th March, 2018
One of the pleasures of visiting the Lancaster Insurance Spring Pride at Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show is the opportunity to appreciate the sheer dedication that so many enthusiasts put into their car.
DO YOU REMEMBER THE BMC LD VAN?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 20th March, 2018
If you take a look at almost any brochure for a British light commercial vehicle of the 1960s, it will contain page after page of drawings featuring smiling and Brylcreemed tradesmen delivering bread or milk with a smile.
HOW MANY SURVIVE? - THE MORRIS “ITAL” 575 VAN
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 20th March, 2018
Michael Carpenter is a young man with a mission and his most recent challenge was the restoration of a vehicle now so rare as to make the Jaguar XK120 appear positively common and one that is sure to draws crowds wherever it goes.
Lancaster Insurance supports National Car Club awards for third year in a row
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 16th March, 2018
Classic car insurance specialist, Lancaster Insurance, has once again shown its commitment to the car club community, by supporting the National Car Club awards; and will be sponsoring four categories at the prestigious awards ceremony, ‘National Car Club of the Year’, Outstanding Online Presence by a Car Club (including social media, website and other online presence), National Car Club Judges Special Recognition Award and a new award for this year ‘National Car Club ‘Young Member’ of the Year’’.
DO YOU REMEMBER THE ALPINE AND THE SOLARA?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 13th March, 2018
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?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 1st March, 2018
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 Services |
- 27th February, 2018
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
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 27th February, 2018
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.
