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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’.
60 YEARS OF VOLVO IN THE UK
- Andy Roberts |
- 3rd December, 2018
The name of Volvo is so well established in the UK that is very difficult to believe that there was once a time when it was only enthusiasts of rallying, and ‘foreign cars’ who knew of the Swedish marque.
70 YEARS OF THE MORRIS MINOR
- Andy Roberts |
- 29th November, 2018
A memory – it is 1975 and we are travelling towards Lewes in my maternal grandfather’s dark green four-door 1955 Morris Minor Series II.
DO YOU REMEMBER THE VAUXHALL WYVERN/VELOX/CRESTA E?
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 29th November, 2018
To look at this 1955 cinema commercial is to witness a world that is akin to an Enid Blyton story
Porsche announced as marque feature at Lancaster Insurance Classic and Supercars Show 2019
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 29th November, 2018
Porsches right through the ages will be celebrated at the Lancaster Insurance Classic and Supercars Show 2019 after the marque was announced as the key feature.
MEET THE OWNER – MORRIS MARINA 1.3 DE LUXE S2 ESTATE
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 29th November, 2018
There is one detail about the 1977 Morris Marina 1.3 De Luxe S2 Estate owned by Michael Carpenter that makes the late 1970s appear incredibly remote - the lack of a rear wiper.
Club of the Month - The Talbot Owners' Club
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 29th November, 2018
2018 has been a fantastic year for this month’s club of the month, the Talbot Owners’ Club, with awards a plenty, starting with Octane’s Magazine Historic Motoring Award for Club of the Year and last month taking the Most Improved Magazine at the Classic & Sports Car Club awards, supported by Lancaster Insurance.
70 YEARS OF THE WOLSELEY 6/80
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 29th November, 2018
‘When you see a Wolseley 6/80 outside a house, you can place its owner as a man whose standing with his neighbours is high’.
MEET THE OWNER – JAMES WALSHE AND HIS CX COLLECTION
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 29th November, 2018
James Walshe was eight years old at the 1984 Birmingham Motor Show. It was there, on the Citroen stand, that the Deputy Editor of Practical Classics saw the vehicle that helped to shape his future automotive collection.
70 Years of the Jaguar XK120
- Andy Roberts |
- 28th November, 2018
Suppose you were a visitor to the London Motor Show in 1948 and you had just put your name on the waiting listing for a Morris Minor.
MEET THE OWNER SIMON RYLE AND HIS SIX FIAT 131S
- Lancaster Insurance Services |
- 27th November, 2018
‘I've had 131s for 31 years, and I was 19 when I purchased my first 131, a 1982 2000TC Supermirafiori’.
THE ONLY TRIUMPH HERALD HATCHBACK IN THE WORLD
- Andy Roberts |
- 26th November, 2018
‘Ten years on a garage floor with no wheels then twenty years in a back garden…’. Those are the succinct words of Chris Gunby, Triumph enthusiast extraordinary when he acquired the only Herald Hatchback in existence.
