We’ve now secured our second car – a 1993 Mazda MX5 Mk1 Eunos Roadster V-Spec Type 2 Edition – and we’re in love! We’re truly smitten with our new purchase at Lancaster Insurance HQ – a beautiful MX5 with all the bells and whistles, due to it being a V-Spec edition, which is a rarer model than the standard Eunos Roadster.
Are you new to the world of classic cars? Perhaps you’re a younger driver looking to stand out from the crowd with a stylish vintage motor? If so, we’d like to introduce you to the wonderful world of Lotus. Let’s take a look at some of your possible options
The year is 1976, it is 20th December, and a K-registered Dyane 6 heads westwards along the A27. The fabric rattles alarmingly once the Citroën finally achieves 60 mph, and draughts leak into every corner of the interior.
In the late 1960s, a new Vauxhall Viscount struck awe in many a road user. It was a car for the provincial sophisticate, who dined at the Post Office Tower restaurant once a month and probably owned a chain of prosperous laundrettes in outer Southampton.
On Sunday 3rd July, the National Motor Museum marked its 50th birthday with a 1970s Classic Car Drive-in Day - Celebration of 50th anniversary of the National Motor Museum and unveiling of The Story of Motoring in 50 Objects.
When I bought my 1960 Wolseley 6/99 last year, one of my reasons was a possible wedding transport for my stepdaughters.
Picture the scene – it is September 1989, and you are searching for a five-seater five-door hatchback. Of course, your criteria are that it must be British-built, frugal with fuel, cheap to run and reasonably well-appointed.
As summer is finally with us, thoughts turn to the familiar pastimes –picnics with exploding bottles of diet ginger ale, wasps that sound like an irate John Lydon, and convertible motoring.
As the Ford Sierra and the MG Metro are just some of the cars celebrating their 40th birthdays this year, we ask the vital question –
“The Ministry driver climbed aboard, the man called Ladislav took the passenger seat, the driver pressed a button and the Tatra’s rear mounted V8 engine rumbled into life. Looking around, I noticed all the switches and the steering wheel were in an elegant ivory plastic unlike anything I had seen in Britain”.
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