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First classics - a family affair
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 5th October, 2017
We’ve got just five weeks to go until the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show with its theme of ‘family ties’, so we asked one of our customers and his dad for their classic story.
DVD of the Week – The Fast Lady
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 4th October, 2017
Why in my admittedly biased view, is The Fast Lady one of the greatest pictures in the history of civilisation? Well, this trailer might provide a slight clue.
70 Years of the Citroen H
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 3rd October, 2017
This year marks 70 years of not just one of the greatest Citroens ever made but a true French automotive icon.
50 Years of the Honda N360
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 2nd October, 2017
In March 1967, Honda launched a new car that proved to be a key model in establishing the marque with car buyers around the world.
Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery, is all set for the ‘season finale’
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 28th September, 2017
The Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show, with Discovery, is all set for another gigantic ‘season finale’ of the classic scene at Birmingham’s NEC from Friday 10 to Sunday 12 November.
Formula Ford
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 26th September, 2017
For the first time in a while, qualifying saw all the Formula Fordsters on track at the same time meaning it was busy! I managed a decent time on one of the first laps putting in 4th. On my last lap I had a green first sector but unfortunately came across traffic and couldn’t put the lap together so finished P6 on the grid.
Pathe Newsreels – Happy Camping!
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 26th September, 2017
Rain, tinned Goblin beef burgers, UHT milk and Carry On England being screened in the club house. Those are my memories of caravan holidays during the 1970s, so it should come as no surprise that at least one holidaymaker was rumoured to have attempted a Steve McQueen style escape, albeit while riding a Honda PC50 moped.
Do You Remember – The Yugo?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 26th September, 2017
Back in 1981, a time when ownership of a Sony C7 Betamax video recorder was your passport to social success, motorists on a restricted budget were offered a new form of an economy car.
Automotive Genius – The Panhard Dyna Z & PL17
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 25th September, 2017
On the 17th June 1953, a time when the flashing indicator was greeted as dangerously radical in many parts of Britain, one of the world’s oldest automotive marques, launched a truly ‘groundbreaking’ model. The Panhard Dyna Z was a fairly large front wheel drive saloon with an aluminium body that had the lowest drag coefficient of any mass-produced car of its era.
Do You Remember – The Humber Sceptre?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 25th September, 2017
1963 saw the Rootes Group introduce two high -profile cars, one entirely new and the other based on its existing lineup of medium-sized cars. The former was, of course, the Hillman Imp and the latter was the Humber Sceptre, one of the most downright agreeable cars to hail from Coventry.
Old Adverts – The Vauxhall Victor F-TYPE/FB/FC
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 22nd September, 2017
Sales techniques have inevitably changed over the past 60 years but almost anyone watching this dealer launch film for the first Vauxhall Victor will instantly crave a Super finished in Admiral Red.
Do You Remember – The Peugeot 104?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 22nd September, 2017
The first Peugeot I can remember was a small and extremely smart hatchback darting amongst the red and cream Leyland Atlantean buses and Morris Oxford taxis of downtown Southampton back in the mid-1970s.
DO YOU REMEMBER – THE VAUXHALL ASTRA Mk. I?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 21st September, 2017
I imagine nearly everyone will recall the original Astra; the first Vauxhall-badged car with front wheel drive and one of the defining cars of the early 1980s. The Astra was more than a very worthy competitor for the VW Golf and the soon to be launched Ford Escort Mk. III, it was as typically early 1980s as listening to Madness’ House of Fun on a Sony Walkman while hiring a Betamax tape of Jaws 2 at your local video library.
DO YOU REMEMBER – THE FORD 100E?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 21st September, 2017
The 100E is the epitome of a car that could never fall into the category of ‘Forgotten Classic’. Today there is a thriving owners’ club for the Ford that was once as much a part of British motoring as traffic lights on black and white striped poles. On a personal note, when growing up in the 1970s, I saw a good many customised examples, often driven by gentlemen whose look was inspired by Les Gray, the lead singer of Mud.
