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[Billf]

Britain's classic car hot spots revealed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-3389046/Kent-Essex-Surrey-classic-car-owners-UK-counties.html

My old stomping ground Cumbria is well down the list though.

[mikeC]

Some curious statistics there: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire are, apparently, the counties with the fourth and sixth most dense population of classics. Strange how I never see another classic from one month to the next...

Aah! I see; 78 per cent of all Nottinghamshire classics are second-generation VW Campers... they are probably all down in Cornwall

[Phil - Nottingham]

Live on Derbyshire/Notts border and work in Derby. Hardly ever see a classic actually on the road and being driven apart from our own even on the rare fine dry summer weekends
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[Riley Blue]

There are loads in and around Chesterfield (though not so many being used at this time of year) with several classic clubs holding regular meetings in local pubs.
It really surprised me when I moved here in 2007 to see so many in regular use, mainly cars from the 60s and 70s and new our neighbours, who moved in less than a year ago, have an Anglia.
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[Ray White]

Having moved to Derbyshire from Berkshire 16 years ago I can confirm that there seems to be a poor representation on our roads. Several of my neighbours have VW Campers; in fact one of them has several and has spent a fortune restoring them but I have yet to see one on the road.

I feel strangely unique when I take my cars out. Even on "drive it" day, I hardly ever see any old cars although when I see a Moggie Minor or Triumph Spit it seldom dawns on me that these are now classics as I was driving them when they were current and it doesn't seem like that long ago really.

[BigJohn]

That seems about as accurate as taking a horse power survey at car club meet in a pub! I live in North Lancashire and don't know anyone with a VW T2, but in my small local area I do know 2 TR6's, 2 MGB's, 1 pre war Wolseley, 2 Pre war MG's, 1 Morris 1000, 2 Mini's, 1 Mini Moke, 1 380 SL Merc, 1 Daimler Consort, 1 Ford Prefect, 1 Ford Capri, 1 Mk1 Escort, 1 Opel Manta, A Mk1 Celica Supra, and a few more all in 1 square mile, but no T2's.
My local car club has over a 100 classic cars and no VW's, but, there is a VW club in Preston so they must have them all.

[Penguin45]

What a lot of cobblers. That's extrapolated from one insurance commpany's 13k vehicles, which is a mere fraction of what's out there. If the T2 is the most popular "classic", surely that's because said insurance company offers the best deal for insuring the vehicle?

P45.
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[Ashley]

Gloucestershire hardly figures yet within three miles of my home are two R-R&b specialists, my son's company, a Hotrod specialist, a Bugatti restoration company, a Maserati, Lancia and Aston specialist, a few MG type companies and so many more. If I extend that to 15 miles, you wouldn't believe how many there are.

That one insurance company specialises in less expensive cars and it's probably a representative sample but only part of the overall picture. They'll have a PR company to send a story to the Daily Mail, a hugely successful and influential paper with the most read online news site on the planet. Good publicity I'd have thought.

If they wanted students and public sector union members to know, they'd have sent it to the Guardian, which has less than a tenth of the circulation of the Mail and not such a good target audience.

[ka]

We must be in Classic heaven up here, !00e van, Model T, Lagonda, Jags, Dolomite, Rovers, Golfs, and a good handful of some working class mid 30's and 40's/50's cars, and of course us with the Morgan, and yes around 30 odd 60/70/80's Bikes.
Must be the clement weather and quiet roads...........
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Better three than four.

[clan chieftain]

Maybe half a dozen I see regularly around here. There is an 85 Orion for sale in a garage at £2750
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[Bitumen Boy]

[Ashley]

Believe it or not I do read bits of most of the papers remembering of course that they're 99% opinion and that the successful ones express more representative opinion.

The Mail is the most successful paper and online news site in the western world and probably has the right demographic for Carole Nash. It'll reach the most potential customers. Papers advertising rates are dictated by the numbers of readers who can be considered target audience for whatever is being advertised.

Lawyers looking for people who they couldn't find to inherit or whatever would advertise in the News Of The World because it had the largest circulation at the time.

The left is very noisy, but mostly public sector now and smaller in numbers than you might think. Union membership in the Public Sector is 55% and about 13% in the Private Sector.

Us Brits are MOR, we like being centrist and a good thing too. We got through the thirties rather more successfully than far left Germany and far right Italy. Hitler was only able to balance the books by stealing from countries he'd invaded.