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Event Review – Restoration Show 2023
This year’s Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show 2023, with discovery+, welcomed 26,872 attendees to Birmingham’s NEC for a three-day festival of rust and restoration. Classic Car Clubs at Restoration Show 2023 Around 160 car clubs from across the UK showcased their members’ vehicles from barn finds to...
50 years of the Triumph Dolomite Sprint
This year the Triumph Dolomite Sprint turns 50, read on to find out more about this fantastic car! During the 1960s, Triumph developed a range of small saloon cars known as ‘Project Ajax’. This versatile little range of cars sold well for Triumph, appealing to young families, professionals, and...
Event Preview – Restoration Show 2023
The show with the longest name on the calendar returns as the Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show 2023 with Discovery kicks off our show season proper over the weekend of 24-26 March. It might be Spring, here in the UK, but that certainly doesn’t mean we’re all...
Getting Started With Classic Cars – Setting Out
Interest in classic cars has never been higher and the classic car scene has never been more exciting, diverse, and busy with a whole plethora of events and tours on offer. It’s a great community to be a part of and the reasons why you might want to dip...
Borrow a classic car for a year with the Classic Car Loan Project
The classic car loan project has a noble aim. Its mission is to encourage future generations of classic car enthusiasts, by giving younger drivers the opportunity to ‘borrow’ a classic car to use for a year. Sounds amazing right? Well, it really is and here at Peter James Insurance...
Queen Elizabeth II’s 1953 Land Rover Series 1 for Sale
This weekend, Silverstone Auctions have another royal vehicle in their sale – Queen Elizabeth II’s 1953 Land Rover Series 1. The most recent Royal car sold by Silverstone Auctions was Princess Diana’s black Ford Escort RS Turbo which made a world record price of £730,000. This royal 4×4 was...
MG and Triumph Spares Day – The 2023 Return!
The long-standing MG and Triumph Spares Day event has been the season opener in the calendar for MG and Triumph enthusiasts for more than two decades and on 12th February 2023 made a welcome return after three years. The vibrant spares stalls, autojumble, tool specialists, club displays and packed...
The story of the Austin 7 – the little car that hooked Britain on motoring
Every country has its cars of the people – the first models that really got the populous moving. For America it was the Model T, Germany the Beetle, Italy the Cinquecento… the list goes on and on. Here, in good ol’ Blighty, our proletariat popped to the next parish...
Why do I need Classic Car Insurance or Classic Bike Insurance?
Do you cherish your classic car? Treasure your classic motorcycle? Then treat it to a classic car insurance or classic bike insurance policy! We could sit here and debate what makes a classic vehicle, err classic until your policy is due to renew next year, but whatever policy yardsticks your...
Top 5 Motorcycles of the Second World War
Motorcycles in conflict arguably played their most decisive role during the Second World War – here’s five that proved both popular ‘over there’ and on the home front. Prior to WW2, bikes – both engine and man-powered – helped soldiers in several ways. Whether delivering messages via dispatch riders...
