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Introducing our October Bright Young Spark, Solomon Welch!
- 30th October, 2024
‘It’s the perfect contrast to tech’. Solomon Welch on a youthful passion for classic restoration and revival.
Lancaster Insurance is celebrating 40 years with a huge birthday giveaway!
- 30th October, 2024
2024 is a milestone year for us at Lancaster Insurance as we celebrate our 40th anniversary, alongside the show, and we wouldn’t be here without the fantastic support from you.
Lancaster Insurance Pride of Ownership finalists revealed!
- 30th October, 2024
The Autumn Final of the Lancaster Insurance Pride of Ownership competition is set to be a clash of the titans, making it fitting for this year’s Classic Motor Show’s 40th anniversary year.
Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show reveals hall of fame inductee shortlist
- 30th October, 2024
The organisers of the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show have revealed the shortlist of potential inductees being considered for two of the four categories in its prestigious new ‘Hall of Fame’.
Meet The Collector – Aubone Braddon and his ten Ford Anglias
- 30th October, 2024
Ford launched the “World’s Most Exciting Light Car” in September 1959, when its reverse-angle rear screen and tail fins amazed the outgoing Anglia 100E owners.
Meet The Owner - Geoff Rowlands and his Mitsuoka Galue
- 30th October, 2024
What was your first experience with classic cars? In a way my first car was a “classic” – Morris 1000 convertible – although in those days it wasn’t considered so.
Furious Driving’s, Matt, celebrates the success of the second Rustival show!
- 30th October, 2024
When Ian from Hubnut, Steph from I Drive a Classic and Matt, from Furious Driving YouTube channels planned the first Rustival show they only expected maybe 300 cars might turn up.
Meet The Owner – Łukasz Matczak, Bartosz Ciemięga and their FSO 1300
- 18th October, 2024
Between 1967 and 1991, the Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych (Passenger Automobile Factory or FSO) near Warsaw built nearly 1.5 million of the 125p family.
RARER THAN RARE – THE TALBOT HORIZON ULTRA
- 18th October, 2024
I have always admired the Chrysler and Talbot models and have owned numerous Sunbeams and Avengers over the years; my other classic Talbot at the moment is quite a rare 1978 Sunbeam Automatic which has recently been subject to quite a substantial recommissioning.
ULTRA-SUAVE – THE VAUXHALL CAVALIER 1900GL COUPE
- 18th October, 2024
The Coupe belonged to a relative of my wife, and it was a company car. When she left the firm, the Cavalier was part of the severance package, and she kept it for the rest of her life.
RARER THAN RARE – VAUXHALL CRESTA PA FRIARY ESTATE
- 18th October, 2024
For anyone whose off-duty tastes involve watching Expresso Bongo and playing (badly) the John Barry Seven’s Hit and Miss on their guitar, Trojan Cars of Southsea has the ideal vehicle:
40 Years Old – The Alfa Romeo 90
- 18th October, 2024
Forty years ago, Alfa Romeo launched a car that is now possibly one of the rarest in the UK. Some regarded the 90 as a stopgap model until Alfa could introduce the 164; others saw it as the ultimate development of the Alfetta Berlina.
ENDING ON A HIGH NOTE – THE LAST EVER WOLSELEY
- 9th October, 2024
Sometimes, the scale of a collector’s fleet means it is necessary to part with a splendid vehicle, such as John Worth’s 1975 Wolseley Wedge. A few years ago, I wrote in The Telegraph:
RARER THAN RARE – 1959 BMW BAROQUE ANGEL 502 3.2 V8
- 9th October, 2024
There is rare. There is exclusive. And then there is a UK-market 502 3.2 V8 “Baroque Angel”. Today, it is possibly the most exclusive car in this country to wear the BMW roundel.
