Innholdsfortegnelse for 21/07/2021 i Classic Car Buyer

The Classic and Sportscar Centre has launched a new service offering short and long-term secure indoor storage for classic and modern cars, using expertise gathered from 30 years’ experience in the classic car industry to keep vehicles in optimum condition. Vehicles can be collected in purpose-built enclosed transporters or can be delivered to any of the company’s sites in Malton, North Yorkshire. On arrival, vehicles are cleaned, photographed and inspected before being placed into a secure facility, and once in storage, will be protected using a high-quality soft cover with regular battery checks and conditioning. Vehicles will be also comprehensively insured and put under manned surveillance 24 hours a day. The Classic and Sportscar Centre can also offer various maintenance packages and regular road testing. For more details and rates,…

➤ 1973 Triumph TR6, value £18,000: £88.74 or £106.74 with AV ➤ Based on 45-year old, with a second vehicle. It’s garaged, covers 3000 miles a year and lives in an SP2 postcode. They have no claims or convictions, are a club member, and are employed as a marketing manager. Disclaimer: Policy benefits, features and discounts offered may vary between insurance schemes or cover selected and are subject to underwriting criteria. An additional charge may be payable. ➤ Subject to underwriting criteria. An additional charge may be payable. www.lancasterinsurance.co.uk 01480 809176…

A new purpose-built café and meeting destination has been launched in North Yorkshire for fans of all wheeled transport. Called NY500, it’s located near Pickering on the edge of the North York Moors and opened its doors for the first time last month. Currently the café is open 10am-5pm on weekdays, except for Wednesday, which also includes Bike Night from 5pm-8pm. It’s also open 8am-5pm on Saturdays and 8am-4pm on Sundays. It has plenty of indoor and outdoor space, as well as seven further acres of private land for big events to be held. The venue boasts a showroom too, which currently features Steve Soper’s 2001 BTCC Peugeot 406, the 1989 Spa 24-hour winning Bastos Sierra RS500 and a modified 3.1-litre Capri that starred on Car SOS, among others. Regular…

A sold-out Jaguar Summer Festival took place at Bicester Heritage on July 4, including a sea of E-Types stretching across the Oxfordshire countryside for the model’s 60th anniversary. Organised by the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club and the Jaguar Drivers’ Club, the event included a great mix of modern and historic Jaguars from all eras. Fans were treated to track demos featuring cars from the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust’s collection, including 77RW, the E-Type famously driven through the night to the Geneva Motor Show in 1961, plus the Trust’s XK120 and its European Touring Car Championship-winning TWR XJ-S. Other anniversaries celebrated included 60 years of the MkX, 25 years of the XK8, 20 years of the modern X-Type and 35 years of the XJ40. The event also marked 70 years since the…

The UK’s new-car market has changed significantly since the 1990s, with a number of marques that were with us for many decades either disappearing into the history books via insolvency or retreating from these shores in order to focus on other regions. Not all of them are necessarily missed by the classic car fraternity, with brand names like Proton and Perodua being mourned by only a select few, while the final lineups from famous US brands like Chrysler, Dodge and Chevrolet left enthusiasts unenthused… aside from a handful of specialist cars bearing badges like Challenger and Corvette. Elsewhere, however, we’ve lost (or are about to lose, in the case of Mitsubishi) marques that were still revered by many right up until the end. Even their final models were widely acknowledged…

Contact: Allon White Sports Cars Cranfield, Beds, MK43 0BS Tel: 01234 750205 www.allonwhite.co.uk The Lotus Elise celebrates its 25th anniversary this year…and this is also the year that it ends production. A run of a quarter of a century is a fairly solid recommendation for what a compelling and distinctive package the Elise is and why it has virtually been a classic from the moment it was unveiled back in 1996. It marked a return to form for Lotus after its troubled years in the 1970s and 1980s when the firm went upmarket and set its sights on goals that its finances, engineering and production resources often struggled to reach. The Elise revived the spirit of early models like the Seven, Elite and Elan in being a small, stripped-back, no-nonsense…

Contact: Sherwood Restorations, Upton Road, Southwell, Notts NG25 0QB Tel: 01636 812655 www.sherwoodrestorations.co.uk Arguably Ford didn’t have a proper response the original Series MM Morris Minor until the arrival of the 105E Anglia in 1959 – here at last was a small Ford with thoroughly modern engineering, a spacious cabin and up-to-the-minute styling. Always distinctive because of its reverse-rake rear window, the Anglia’s trump card was its new ‘Kent’ OHV engine with a short stroke to provide smooth running and durability at high speeds for the newly planned motorway network. Economical, reliable and practical, the Anglia was popular both when new and as a classic and it is still well-supported in terms of parts and knowledge to this day. The really desirable ones are the bigger-engined, better-equipped Super models from…

You’re like Uncle Fred Bear.” So said my sister Janet the other day. It took a few seconds to register. Then I remembered. Back in the early-mid 1960s, we each had a weekly comic. My first one was called Teddy Bear at the age of six and I subsequently graduated to Valiant until about 1973 when asked if I could have Railway Modeller instead. Which, almost 50 years on, I still read. Anyway, Uncle Fred Bear was a character in Teddy Bear. The key characters were a family of bears – Teddy, the central character, was of similar age to the comic’s target readership. His family comprised Mum and Dad Bear, younger sister Bare Bear; who was always taking her clothes off, plus Grandmare and Grandad. The extended family included…

Petrol prices reached their highest level in the UK since 2013 at the end of June, new figures show. Data from RAC’s Fuel Watch initiative shows the average price of unleaded has reached an eight-year high of 132.19p per litre. That’s an 18p rise since November 2020 – boosting the price of filling the average car by £10. Diesel has also reached a two-year high, costing 134.32p per litre on average. RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said: “June proved to be a shocking month for drivers with not just the eighth straight monthly rise at the pumps, but a return to 132p a litre petrol – something we haven’t seen since October 2013. “What’s even more worrying is that some analysts are predicting an oil deficit by the end of…

The last-minute announcement that Goodwood’s Festival of Speed could go ahead as planned effectively meant the first large-scale car event taking place on European soil since before the pandemic. The Forest Rally Stage was once again host to a line-up of machines representing the long history of the World Rally Championship, with a fantastic array of Formula 1 cars, Le Mans prototypes and pre-war sports cars taking to the hill. This year’s event celebrated “The Maestros – Motorsport’s Great All-Rounders” and key amongst them was Roger Penske, returning to Goodwood for the first time since he raced a Ferrari 250 GTO in 1969. Some 11 Penske-associated racers were on show, ranging from a 250 GTO to an Indy 500-winning McLaren M16B and Porsche’s RS Spyder LMP2 racer, which Penske drove…

Radford, the British coachbuilding name revived by car designer Mark Stubbs, TV star Ant Anstead and former Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button, has secured the rights for the iconic John Player Special livery. The famous black and gold design has graced famous racing cars across multiple disciplines, as well as a number of motorsport-inspired special edition road cars. One of the most successful JPS-liveried cars was the iconic Lotus Type 72D in which Emerson Fittipaldi clinched the F1 title in 1972. The colour scheme remained a Lotus mainstay until 1986. “The acquisition of the JPS livery trademark is a clear statement of intent from Radford,” said CEO Dan Burge. “We’ll be using this livery in various guises in the coming years, on future Radford models, which we can’t wait…

Triumph’s cost-effective way of updating its traditional TR sports car line for the Seventies, the TR6 was essentially a neat facelift of the TR5 performed by German coachbuilder Karmann, which added a squared-off nose and tail in the style of Michelotti’s work on the firm’s saloon car range. Introduced in January 1969, it wasn’t a revolutionary step change for the Triumph TR series, but neither was it out of line and in many ways it was a significant car. It was much the same as the TR5/250 models underneath, with a separate chassis and a front-mounted straight-six sending power to the rear wheels through a four-speed gearbox. The TR4A of course, had introduced independent rear suspension, and since the TR4 there had been rack and pinion steering. For the first…

We hear a lot about the idea of ‘restomods’ these days but the idea of adding modern upgrades to a lavishy restored classic first became popular back in the ’80s with the Mk2 Jaguar one of the first to receive the treatment. It seems sacrilegious today but back then any number of companies could (for a suitably hefty fee) take your timeworn Mk2 and transplant the interior and running gear from a much more modern Jaguar – generally the XJ40. Names like Vicarage and Beacham were the most prominent and although the cars were impeccably presented they did lose some of their classic appeal, with the oversized modern wheels and other features painfully obvious. All of which makes this rather more subtly upgraded example of the Daimler V8 a very…

GOLDILOCKS GARAGE For many, cars from the 1990s are ‘just right’ – enough sophistication, quality and refinement to be used every day for many years but not so much to become frustrating, remote, over-complicated white goods. We survey a collection of modern classic from what could well be the era of Peak Car. CLASH OF THE COUPES Two German sports coupes based on more modest underpinnings but with very different approaches. We weigh up the lightweight, front-wheel drive VW Scirocco against the meaty rear-drive Opel Manta. BUYING A BENTLEY MkVI ‘Affordable’ is relative when it comes to Bentleys, but the first post-war saloon from the Flying B is certainly tempting value for money considering what an excellent package it is. But they’re rarefied and complex things that need to be…