Motor Clubs from around South Wales have entered teams in an inter-club quiz on Tuesday which will remember one of the great characters of Welsh motorsport. Seasoned competitor, event organiser, motor sport raconteur and quiz master Peter Griffiths lost his long-standing battle with cancer earlier this year. His love of motor sport was matched by that for … [Read more...]
Welsh Youth Trials riders competing at Neath
The Welsh Youth Championship round for South Wales trials series will be held on saturday. It is being staged at the new centre training venue Glyn y Bedd Farm, Crynant, near Neath and the event begins for a variety of classes from noon. … [Read more...]
Rally Legends display growing for WRGB in October
Organisers of Wales Rally GB announced that AutoClassics.com is supporting its special Rally Legends display in Llandudno – one of the major attractions during a history-making finale to this year’s event 4-7 October. The famous Conwy County resort will host a full weekend’s entertainment in the countdown to Sunday’s dramatic rally finale which, for the … [Read more...]
Landies lord it at 70th anniversary in Swansea
The new Swansea Bus Museum and Transport Heritage Centre celebrated the seventieth year of Land Rover production with a display of some unique four wheel drive machines at the Viking Way premises on Sunday. A superb array of the Land Rover models from the most early basic days up to the luxurious Range Rover versions of today, and with every imaginable … [Read more...]
Swansea Transport Heritage Centre honours “Landies”
The new Swansea Bus Museum and Transport Heritage Centre at Viking Way in Winch Wen Industrial Estate has another special display this Sunday 19 August. It will mark the seventieth anniversary of that legendary vehicle, the Land Rover. Entries already received for the show include early Series 1 Land Rovers of various types, an equally diverse number of … [Read more...]
Swansea’s Clean Air Roadshow
Swansea City Centre will tomorrow host the second Clean Air Roadshow supported by Swansea BID and The Big Heart of Swansea. With over 150,000 vehicles on the road today powered by electricity, the Clean Air Roadshow will bring a selection of these to the city centre. Castle Square will be a hive of activity from 10am – 4pm, featuring vehicles from Kia, … [Read more...]
Swansea’s resounding success with new show
The American Car Show at the Viking Way Swansea Bus Museum and Transport Heritage Centre last Sunday was a resounding success, writes Roger Gale. The Museum echoed to the snarl of roaring American V8 engines when the Swansea American Auto Club gathered a stunning array of cars, including the 1940’s Ford Custom that was constructed in the United States by … [Read more...]
American car show draws into Wales
The newly revitalised Swansea Transport Museum – formerly established as Swansea Bus Museum – this Sunday hosts the first American Car Show to be held in the region since the early ‘nineties . A host of the vast glittering ‘gas guzzlers’ will be assembling for the ‘Independence Day’ extravaganza at the Viking Way Museum (SA1 7DA) on Swansea Enterprise … [Read more...]
Off-road sales drive gains traction
An innovative initiative designed to put the versatile and reliable Can-Am All Terrain and Side by Side Vehicles at the forefront of farmers and utility users’ minds when they come to purchase a new bike is being implemented by BRP (Bombardier Recreational Products) this summer. The Can-Am Conquest Tour will be visiting 20 livestock sales and auction … [Read more...]
New exhibition at National Motor Museum
The Guild of Motoring Writers, the world’s oldest and largest organisation for automotive journalists, has opened a new permanent exhibition at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire. The expanded and updated display, in its own dedicated area within the famous New Forest museum, tells the story of the Guild, which was started by a group of … [Read more...]
