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  • HAMMER TIME AT THE FOOTMAN JAMES CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW

    Created: Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:00
    Silverstone Auctions has teamed up with the organisers of the Footman James Classic Motor Show to hold a prestige car auction at this year’s event at Birmingham’s NEC on Saturday 17th November. It’s the first auction of its type in the show’s h...

  • JAY KAY REUNITES PORSCHE WITH RALLY LEGEND

    Created: Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:00
    Jamiroquai front man and self-confessed petrolhead Jay Kay is bringing his Porsche 914-6 to this year’s Race Retro for a reunion with one of its original drivers, rally legend Bjorn Waldegard. Bjorn will be seeing if the car stands the test of time o...

  • CLUB NEWS JANUARY 25TH, 2012

    Created: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:00
    CLASSICS IN THE CITY! Classic Car Buyer’s Welsh Correspondent – and prolific show organiser – Ashley Lovering is organising yet another classic car related event in his home town of Swansea. Classics in the City, is intended to introduce the joy...

  • TWO DAY AUCTIONS!

    Created: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:00
    Wiltshire-based classic auction house Richard Edmonds have announced two significant changes to their operation from 2012. The first is a relocation to a larger site within the Castle Combe racing complex with room for over 1000 people during viewing an...

  • CROFT’S NEW WEBSITE

    Created: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:00
    Croft Circuit in North Yorkshire has relaunched its website: www.croftcircuit.co.uk It now provides fans, media and competitors alike with greater and far speedier details about its calendar of events and performance driving experiences. Improved conten...

  • NEW JENSEN AT BROWNS LANE

    Created: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:00
    Approval has been given by Coventry City Council for the creation of a new supercar production plant on the former Jaguar site at Browns Lane. CPP, the company who owns the Dutch sportscar brand Spyker and the fearsome off-road builders Bowler, plans t...

  • CALLING 3-SERIES BMWS

    Created: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:00
    To mark the launch of the brand new 3-Series, the sixth generation of the iconic saloon line, the Stephen James Group of BMW dealers is requesting owners of tidy E21s, E30s, E36s, E46s and E90 models to get in touch. A special display of all the genera...

  • HAVE A GO AT RACE RETRO!

    Created: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:00
    There’s just over a month to go until the annual International Historic Motorsport Show at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire, otherwise known as Race Retro, and this year visitors will have the chance to ‘arrive and drive’ a fully rally-prepared cla...

  • LOTUS FOR SALE?

    Created: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:00
    Norfolk based sports car maker Lotus is potentially at risk of being sold after the group’s parent company, Proton, lost its controlling share after a buy-out from Asian company DRB-Hicom. The confusing tangle of companies who bought separate element...

  • BANG GO 100 CORTINAS!

    Created: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:00
    Swaffham Raceway in Norfolk have announced what many classic enthusiasts will consider to be a rather bizarre celebration of the Cortina’s 50th birthday – an all-Cortina banger race that’s taking place on Sunday July 22! All Cortinas can be entere...

  • Classic car owners may get MOT exemption

    Created: Tuesday, 24 January 2012 14:01
    A government drive to reduce the amount of red tape motorists have to deal with could mean classic car owners no longer have to take their vehicle for an MOT at a service provider like Evans Halshaw Car Services and MOT. Cars built before 1960 could be...

  • CLUB NEWS JANUARY 18TH, 2012

    Created: Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:00
    WIN A MINI NEXT WEEKEND! Visitors to next weekend’s MiniFair 2012 could end up going home again with more than they bargained for, as they’ll the opportunity to win their own classic Mini! Raffle tickets, priced just a £1, can be bought at the...

  • MINI FANS FALL OUT WITH TOP GEAR

    Created: Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:00
    The BBC’s cult motoring programme Top Gear is currently facing the wrath of classic Mini owners after a 2000-registered Mini Cooper was abused and left for dead in India after being ‘defaced’ during a stunt in the show’s Christmas special. In th...

  • MOTORING IMAGES GO ONLINE

    Created: Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:00
    The Gaydon-based Heritage Motor Centre (HMC) will be hosting Motorgraphs, a gallery-style exhibition from January 28 to February 26 showcasing samples of motoring photography from three important archives that have recently been combined and made availa...

  • FORGED HERITAGE CERTIFICATES

    Created: Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:00
    British Motor Industry Trust at Gaydon have recently been made aware of a forged Heritage Certificate being used to create a false identity for a rare vehicle that was not the model claimed. They are not revealing too many details as investigations are ...

  • TONY BEADLE 8.2.1943-7.1.2012

    Created: Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:00
    We regret to announce that Tony Beadle, well-known classic motoring journalist, founding Editor of our sister publication Triumph World, and the man who instigated Drive It Day, died on January 7, 2012, of complications following an eight hour operation...

  • CLASSICS RESCUED FROM DEMOLITION SITE!

    Created: Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:00
    A number of solid and low mileage classics that have been stored in some North London lockups for 15-20 years have just emerged and are being offered for sale. Charles Millington owned the lockups, along with an associated car showroom that he traded f...

  • AUTOSPORT INTERNATIONAL 2012

    Created: Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:00
    It’s the first major car show of the year, and for many motorsport fans, it’s the highlight. Autosport International is the largest gathering of famous motorsport cars, drivers and personalities from around the globe and offers show goers the chance...

  • CLUB NEWS JANUARY 11TH, 2012

    Created: Wednesday, 11 January 2012 00:00
    HERALD PUB SAVED The Triumph Sport Six Club has managed to save an important piece of Triumph’s history from destruction by relocating the Herald pub to its museum in Leicestershire. The Herald pub for many years was based on Canley Road, Coventr...

  • RED TAPE RELIEF!

    Created: Wednesday, 11 January 2012 00:00
    The government’s much publicised ‘red tape challenge’, under which what’s considered to be unnecessary and over-complex regulation is being removed, is starting to have an impact on motorists – and so far at least it looks like being good news...
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