Classic Cars

Beaulieu is excited to announce its calendar of events for 2021, with three brand new shows joining familiar favorites for a line-up of exciting, enjoyable shows to look forward to in the grounds of the National Motor Museum and Palace House.

Our Video-of-the-Week for you this second week of January is about one of my all-time favorite cars, the MG 1100. The video comes by way of Shelburne Films and their MG Cars Channel.

Aston Martin factory driver, Darren Turner is to attempt 200 miles an hour in the Aston Martin Bulldog concept car forty years after it was first tried.

Our VotW (Video of the Week) – For these young men, driving half-century-old baby Brits like Daniel Harrison’s 1958 MGA and Daniel Hornstrand’s 1962 Austin Mini Cooper isn’t simple.

So now let’s talk about the process of selling on Bring-a-Trailer, and I will tell you about a long-time friend who just sold his spotless 1967 MGB Roadster on the site.

The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance is proud to announce the national premiere of “Driving Amelia.” The hour-long television program showcases the 2020 Amelia, celebrating 25 years of power and passion that fuels the event.

For our return, or attempted return, to our much-liked Video of the Week features, I thought we would start off with something a bit classic. So how about a film entitled “British Racing Green”?

The TR Drivers Club and the TR Spares Development Fund are proud to announce that the project to remanufacture the TR7/8 headlamp panel (WKC4077) has now reached fruition.

Two San Francisco guys with vision and passion initiate a startup and 13 years later sell it to one of the largest companies in their field. Google? Facebook? Apple? No, I am talking about Bring a Trailer, or BaT to the collector car community.

After 40,000 hours of work, Bentley Mulliner has today completed the first new Bentley Blower in 90 years, with the delivery of Car Zero – the prototype car for the Blower Continuation Series.

Aston Martin is known worldwide for its high-profile successes in sports car racing. A famous outright win at Le Mans and a third consecutive victory at the Nürburgring 1,000km saw Aston Martin crowned World Sportscar Champions in 1959. Multiple class wins at Le Mans stretch from 1931 to this year’s multi-class victory which secured the GT Manufacturers’ World Endurance Championship.

Jaguar is marking the sixtieth anniversary of the E-type sports car in 2021 with the introduction of a limited-edition F-TYPE Heritage 60 Edition. Only 60 of these all-wheel-drive sports cars, which are based on the supercharged, 575-hp F-TYPE R, will be available for sale worldwide—each one hand-finished by the personalization experts at SV Bespoke.

Vauxhall’s famous Heritage Collection and Archive are set to move from the company’s Griffin House site next month, as plans develop to create an all-new public-facing Heritage Center in the future. The imminent sale of Vauxhall’s former Luton site means that the Collection will find a new interim home at the company’s Ellesmere Port factory, where a converted 8,000 square-meter building has been set aside for the 60-strong Collection, which represents every decade of Vauxhall’s 117-year history.

The British Motor Museum has been selected as one of three finalists in the Collection category in this year’s Royal Automobile Club Historic Awards. The annual Awards recognize outstanding achievements within the British historic motoring and motorsport world. The judges had an impressive and diverse list of candidates across all 8 categories to scrutinize and will announce the results on January 28, 2021.

Twenty-five years after its famous début victory in the 1995 Le Mans 24 Hours, the wonderful McLaren F1 GTR is the subject of this major two-volume history – McLaren F1 GTR : The Definitive History by Mark Cole and published by Porter Press.

Britain’s original Formula 1 team, British Racing Motors (BRM), is celebrating its 70th anniversary with the construction of three ‘new’ 16-cylinder race cars – the iconic and awe-inspiring Type 15 Mk1 BRM V16.

Customers can now order Swindon Powertrain’s electric Classic Mini Kit and explore optional EV upgrades, including 12 kWhr battery pack, motor controller, onboard charger and DC-DC converter.

Vanwall Group, the successor to the legendary British Vanwall motor racing team of the 1950s, has announced the renaissance of the historic name with plans to build six new continuation cars to celebrate Vanwall’s six Formula One wins in 1958.