Peter James Insurance Blog
Why you NEED to experience the Citroen 2CV!
The Citroen 2CV is a car you either get or don’t. A marmite classic, as polarising to opinion as eating the escargots (snails) is on which their styling appears to have been modeled. Introduction In a world of everyday electric vehicles and SUVs that do 0-60 quicker than...
Peter James support JEC’s Summer Jaguar Festival
This year’s Summer Jaguar Festival was an unforgettable weekend of sunshine, friendship, nostalgia, and celebration as the JEC attained its forty-year anniversary. Those who attended left with incredible memories of a superb weekend and the Peter James team were present throughout the weekend! A warm welcome to Summer Jaguar...
National Classic Car Loan Project – Triumph TR7
Mechanical Engineer Louis Orme, from Newbury, tells us about borrowing a Triumph TR7 Convertible from the TR Register Car Club Applying to the Classic Car Loan Project I came across the classic car loan scheme by chance. There’s a classic car club nearby in Fleet where I have...
Peter James Life Stories: Sidney Allard: The man and his cars
Most folk interested in classic cars will be familiar with those of the Allard marque as being the most powerful British sports cars of the 1950s. Comparatively, few will know much about the achievements of the man who created them – Sidney Allard. Those achievements have never been matched...
Ford Thunderbird – A Fifties Icon!
Although it is almost twenty years since the Thunderbird name last appeared in the Ford model line-up, it remains linked to a true automotive icon. It has lived in the hearts and minds of enthusiasts, and in the garages of collectors, for decades. That icon is the original “T-Bird”...
Austin Cambridge and Westminster celebrate 70 years – Part Two
Austin’s G.S.5 twins, the Cambridge and Westminster ranges, celebrate their 70th anniversary this year. In this four-part feature, we honour these stylish, but mechanically conventional, machines which looked smart and up to date in 1954 but aged far faster than BMC had envisaged. We also examine how they fit...
Austin Cambridge and Westminster celebrate 70 years – Part One
Austin’s G.S.5 twins, the Cambridge and Westminster ranges, celebrate their 70th anniversary this year. In this four-part feature, we honour these stylish but mechanically conventional machines which looked smart and up-to-date in 1954 but aged far faster than BMC had envisaged. We also examine how they fit into the...
Peter James Life Stories: Olga Kevelos – British motorcycling’s leading lady
Sold at an Oxfordshire auction some years ago was a small but interesting lot comprised of an ACU-approved ‘pudding basin’ helmet and a number of trophies, medals and other motorcycling memorabilia. It was the last link to one of the most interesting women in British motorcycle sport through the...
Remembering a Racing Legend: Service of Thanksgiving for Sir Stirling Moss OBE
The Service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of Sir Stirling Moss – a significant event in the motorsport community, was held earlier this year at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 8th May. Sir Stirling Moss, a racing legend, passed away at the age of 90 in April 2020,...
Simply Jaguar – Beaulieu 2024
This year’s gathering of Jaguars in the New Forest was again bathed in sunshine as the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu hosted Simply Jaguar. The Peter James team joined our club partners, the Jagaur Enthusiasts’ Club, to put on another impressive display of Jaguars from all eras – packed...
