Show Reports – Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show

November 18th 2016

Back to News

It’s not without good reason that this show attracts visitors from far and wide. Over the course of the weekend we spoke to customers old and new from not just the UK but Ireland, France, Norway and Denmark. Not to mention those who had made a still very significant journey from Scotland and Northern Ireland to attend the show. And there is a very good reason why so many people go to such a lot of effort to get to the NEC for the show – it’s because it is simply a fantastic show.

In terms of scale it pretty much puts everything else in the shade – there are around 2500 cars on display with the many and varied club stands and specialist dealers. Plus a high quality trade village, live attractions and autojumble means that this is a show worth going to no matter how far away you might be! Much like the big classic shows in Paris or Essen, the NEC Classic Motor Show is very much a destination show itself.

With new attractions for 2016, visitors flocked to the show and it certainly seemed busier than ever before with a massive range of every type of classic car on display. Like E Types? They were there. Talbot Samba? Yep. Lotus Elan? Yup. Ford Capri? Yes Indeed. Renault 4? Check. With even some very obscure rarities on display we reckon that there really is something for everyone. Not that we saw much of it though. Because the trouble is, the bigger and busier a show is, the less time we actually get to go and have a good look around. So whilst we loved the atmosphere and ambiance of the show, whilst it was fantastic to meet so many people whether for the first of fiftieth time and whilst its really nice to get feedback from our customers and how much we enjoy doing the show we actually didn’t see that much of it! Hence, pictures are a scarce commodity around here sadly. Only being snatched during a couple of very brief excursions.

But despite our lack of pictures it was a fantastic weekend and we’d like to say a massive Thank You to all our customers new and old and to everyone we met or who interacted with our social media posts over the weekend.

Next year the show is 10-12 November. We’ll be there and we’d highly recommend you are too!

img_1307 img_1306 img_1305 img_2683 img_2681 img_2680 img_1304 img_1303 img_1299img_1302