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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.
Club of the month: BMW Car Club of Great Britain
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 27th February, 2018
In the year that sees two BMW anniversaries, 50 years of the 2002 and the E3 "New Six" saloon, our February club of the month goes to ‘BMW Car Club of Great Britain’.
Custom-built ‘Meteor Special’ to appear at the Lancaster Insurance Classic and Supercars Show - Sherborne Castle
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 27th February, 2018
Organisers of the Lancaster Insurance Classic and Supercars Show are thrilled to have been chosen as the venue for a recently-completed ‘Meteor Special’ to be shown for the very first time.
FIVE FANTASTIC FWD MGS
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 21st February, 2018
As any MG enthusiast will tell you, the Octagon badge is as much associated with fine saloons as it is sports cars, and so here is a quintet of FWD models from the 1960s to the 1980s that each made quite an impact on their debut.
1980 FORD ESCORT XR3 TO BE AUCTIONED
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 19th February, 2018
In late 1980 there was one question constantly asked by the nation’s racing enthusiasts, fans of The Professionals , and, to be quite honest, boy-racers - how could any FWD hatchback possible match the RS Escorts?
DO YOU REMEMBER THE VAUXHALL CARLTON MK.I AND THE VICEROY?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 16th February, 2018
One of the side effects of the passage of time, apart from noticing how young police officers look, is that how certain once respected cars slowly vanish from our roads.
DVD OF THE WEEK - CHRISTINE
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 12th February, 2018
On the 23rd January, the nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced, which prompted me to think of the many cinematic greats and near-misses with the name of the car in the titles.
DO YOU REMEMBER THE HILLMAN SUPER MINX?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 9th February, 2018
For many of us it is the smallest details of an old car that can evoke such powerful memories – the transmission whine on a Vauxhall Viva HB, the tip-up seats on a four-door Morris 1100 – and the oval shaped interior mirror on a 1965 Hillman Super Minx.
