What a Year 2018 has been!

• Lancaster Insurance Services |
• 12th December, 2018

What a year 2018 has been; we’ve run our first ever prize giveaway, attended even more events than ever and taken part in another amazing Guinness World Record attempt! Click the link to read more.

Lancaster Insurance reveal winner of the VW Mk1 Golf GTi

• Lancaster Insurance Services |
• 12th December, 2018

Christmas came early for Robbie Knight of Eastbourne this week as he was unveiled as the lucky new owner of Lancaster Insurance's prize-giveaway Golf GTi. Click here to find out more and view the video of the keys being delivered.

JAMES RAILTON - AND THE NISSAN CEDRIC THAT CAME IN FROM THE COLD

• Andy Roberts |
• 12th December, 2018

“I’ve always been a Japanese car guy. My first car was a 1983 Suzuki SJ410, and I have had a 1985 Mazda 323 RWD estate, Suzuki SC100 and 1998 Subaru Impreza etc. I had been looking for a large classic Japanese estate car for a while and when I saw the Cedric, I had to get it”.

OLD ADVERTS - PETROL STATIONS

• Lancaster Insurance Services |
• 11th December, 2018

The location is Ecclesall Road in Sheffield and the premises are those of E H Pickford and Co. Ltd.

Relive the 2018 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show

• Lancaster Insurance Services |
• 11th December, 2018

The Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery, took place on Friday 9th to Sunday 11th November and as the grand 'season finale', it was not to be missed. Click to view our video of the 2018 show.

60 YEARS OF THE ROVER P5

• Lancaster Insurance Services |
• 7th December, 2018

Some of the greatest motor cars wear their distinction lightly – cars such as the Rover P5 3-Litre.

THE HAPPY EATER REVISITED

• Lancaster Insurance Services |
• 7th December, 2018

My recent celebration of the Little Chef had prompted me to return to its fiercest rival, for you cannot think of dining on the move during the 1970s and 1980s without also thinking of the Happy Eater.

MEET THE OWNER – PAUL THOMSON AND HIS AUSTIN METRO STANDARD

• Andy Roberts |
• 6th December, 2018

‘No frills - no radio, head rests rear wiper or glove box’ - that’s how Paul Thomson describes his 1983 Austin Metro Standard which is ‘one of nine base models left on the road’.

40 YEARS OF THE OPEL MONZA

• Andy Roberts |
• 6th December, 2018

40 years ago, British motorists were introduced to a coupe that was not only one of the most luxurious cars to bear the Opel badge and a fastback alternative to the Senator saloon but the ideal grand tourer for the professional who could afford a BMW – but who decided not to.

MEET THE OWNER – MARTIN HAMILTON AND HIS MORRIS OXFORD SERIES IV TRAVELLER

• Lancaster Insurance Services |
• 5th December, 2018

60 years of the British motorway

• Andy Roberts |
• 5th December, 2018

The gentlemen with the Bedford CA are installing one of the latest Calvert-Kinneir signs for a new type of highway.

MEET THE OWNER – MARTIN HAMILTON AND HIS MORRIS OXFORD SERIES IV TRAVELLER

• Lancaster Insurance Services |
• 5th December, 2018

In the late 1950s, an Oxford Series IV Traveller owner was the sort of chap or chappess who knew their position in life; pipe-smoking, Mrs. Dale’s Diary on the BBC Home Service and regarding the music of Lonnie Donegan as a threat to civilisation.

60 YEARS OF THE MGA TWIN-CAM

• Lancaster Insurance Services |
• 4th December, 2018

1958 was quite a year for the British Motor Corporation and in that summer, they launched a sports car that instantly became the object of desire for all motor enthusiasts.

CAR OF THE MONTH – JONATHAN SCROG ELLIS AND HIS 1984 MINI

• Andy Roberts |
• 4th December, 2018

‘There are “Mini Drivers” and “Mini Owners”. The former uses their car but put it in the garage at the first signs of trouble, but the latter do all they can, come what may’.