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With PistonHeads.com reporting that the Salon Privé organisers have predicted that “this year’s do is going to be the best yet”, the heat is now on to transform the famous lawns of London’s Hurlingham Club. With “a flurry of big-name super and luxury car brands confirming their attendance”, the event promises to be a huge success.

The classic car event, held between the 21st and 23rd July, is now in its fifth year and holds the title of being the UK’s “ultimate Super Car Event and Concours d’Elégance”, according to The Salon Privé London website. This unique event offers an opportunity to see the most exotic modern and vintage super cars in the world, with the exquisite and exclusive Hurlingham Club as a backdrop.

This year’s Salon Privé will play host to a selection of luxury manufacturers, with Jaguar celebrating its 75th birthday.  The event is “on track to thrill the public more than ever”, according to ClassicAndPerformanceCar.com, with Jaguar revealing they will be using the event not only to celebrate turning 75, but also to showcase its latest product range from its Heritage Collection – some of which will be competing in the Salon Privé Concours d’Elégance.

This prestigious event has rapidly become one of the most eagerly anticipated events in the English Social Calendar, as highlighted by the Salon Privé website, which is no surprise due to the high profile guests and array of entertainment.  Read more...

What could be better than bunking off school and spending the day cruising around in someone else’s Ferrari 250GT Spyder? Well that is exactly what Ferris Bueller (played by Matthew Broderick), and his friends did in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Usually bunking off school involves lying low, but there is nothing discreet about driving around in a Ferrari Spyder – even if it is only a replica.

Ferrari-Daytona.co.uk reported that the late 80s saw classic car values rocket, with Daytona values going through the roof. The surge in value led to the creation of affordable cars, known as replicas. In the original Miami Vice, Detective Sonny Crockett drove a midnight black Ferrari Daytona Spyder, which complemented his low key, high living identity. What most viewers didn’t realise at the time is that the Daytona was in fact a kit replica based on a 1980 Chevrolet Corvette C3 chassis. It just goes to show that the Ferrari-shaped body panels were all it took to give the car its reputable reputation.

Miami Vice spurred a new craze of Daytona’s with McBurnie replica Daytonas (as seen in the TV show) leading the way. As one of the most expensive replicas, the Daytona convertibles have been collected through the years and are a great addition to anyone’s garage, and the best part is that they come with an affordable price tag.  Read more...

At some point in your life you would have wished for the ground to open up and swallow you whole, but for one unfortunate driver this actually happened while driving along a motorway in China. The Daily Mail website has reported that a motorist had a “lucky escape after being swallowed by a sinkhole as he travelled along a busy motorway in Nanchang City, China”.

Shocking images of the scene show a 13ft-wide hole, which appeared when the vehicle’s front wheels sunk into a chasm on the busy road. This isn’t however the first glorified pothole story to emerge in China recently, there have been another seven sinkholes discovered in the past two weeks alone.

There are some holes you just can’t dig yourself out of, and I think this might have been one of them. The motorist had no choice but to wait in his car until he was rescued and his vehicle was lifted to safety. Can you imagine waiting for that perfect summer day to get your classic pride and joy out and take it for a spin along the motorway, and then from out of no-where a huge pothole opens up and swallows up your pride and joy! That’s when you sit then waiting to be rescued praying you remembered to take out breakdown cover with your classic car insurance.

A spokesperson for the freeway management office said “experts on site suspected that the sudden collapse of an underground cave created by eroded limestone caused the sinkhole”, which doesn’t really help the poor motorist who was performing a balancing act with his car.  Read more...

When getting a basic car insurance quote on-line from an insurance company, it is always advisable to check it with quotes issued by different firms with the identical traditional automotive insurance coverage policy features. Nevertheless, it’s a difficult job to maintain observe of all of the info you need, and results are liable to errors and miscalculations. Here are some suggestions that can assist you simplify the process.

The first thing you might want to do once you receive your traditional automotive insurance coverage quote online is to assess your present auto insurance coverage coverage, and look at all of the features it incorporates, reminiscent of limits for property, bodily harm, uninsured motorist and underinsured motorist; what the deductibles are; for those who’re willing to pay for towing and rental care reimbursement; and if you have complete protection or just collision.

Determine if you are still going to want those features in your classic automotive insurance coverage, and make word of any changes. For example, there’s no point choosing comprehensive coverage on an previous automotive that has severely decreased in value. Therefore, getting only collision coverage might be capable of prevent just a few hundred dollars in your traditional automobile insurance premium.

Your second, particularly essential step when receiving classic automotive insurance coverage quote on-line is to collect specific information about your automobiles, and the people who drive them. Be prepared to listing down info regarding:  Read more...

The Volkswagen Beetle began production in 1983, and was produced right up until 2003. This is an impressive 65 years of production, which has seen a total of 21.5million Beetles having rolled off the production lines worldwide. It featured a rear air cooled engine feeding power to the rear wheels, and was designed for sustained high speed on the German Autobahns, and thanks to this extremely robust design featuring high build quality it ultimately became the longest-running and most-produced automobile of a single design in the entire world.

The original brief was to produce a cheap, economical and reliable car for the working class. Adolf Hitler and Ferdinand Porsche were the two men responsible for kick starting the birth of the Volkswagen Beetle, and it went on to become a true classic thanks to its legendary reliability with an almost unbreakable gearbox, and both its unique shape and the unmistakable sound of its air cooled engine.

Like the Mini and the Citroën 2CV, the Beetle has become representative of the swinging sixties, and will always be associated with hippies and surfers thanks to its unique and alternative design. The beetle went on to become a classic car and has been made infamous thanks to its numerous appearances in Hollywood films, where most famously it starred as Herbie in the Love Bug, which also had a spin-off comedy series which ran from 1968 through to 2005. It was also made famous as the Autobot Bumblebee who took the form of a yellow Beetle in the popular Transformers series.  Read more...