Top 10: Gifts for classic car enthusiasts
Whether you're looking for something practical, fun, collectable or experiential, we've rounded up the top 10 best gifts for the classic car lover in your life.
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PopBangColour artwork
Price: prints from £25.00
Buy from PopBangColour
If you've been to a large classic car or motorsport event over the past decade, the chances are you'll have witnessed the contemporary British artist Ian Banu-Cook — aka PopBangColour — at work. His incredible creations are a riot of expression, texture and colour, with an enormous array of classic cars as the subject of his work. In addition to prints, mugs and T-shirts, original artwork is also available. Ian also accepts commissions to produce unique pieces to suit a variety of budgets from his sketchbook-sized ContinuousCar illustrations through to enormous canvases.
LEGO Icons Lamborghini Countach
Price: £159.99
Buy from LEGO
Few cars from any period in time are as iconic as the Lamborghini Countach, a supercar that looks as other-worldly today as it did when it was launched over 50 years ago. Fitting, then, that the Countach — presented in the Miami Vice-era 5000 Quattrovalvole form — is the latest must-have in the LEGO Icons series. Marcello Gandini's sharp-edged, flattened-surfaced Lamborghini styling has translated exceptionally well into LEGO blockwork form. Don't be fooled, though, because with 1506 pieces, constructing this V12-engined masterpiece will keep you occpuied for hours. When complete, the LEGO Lambo only requires a modestly sized parking bay on your shelf or desk to accomodate its 34cm length, 16cm width and 9cm height.
Morgan factory tour
Price: from £31.50
Buy from Morgan
Morgan is one of the UK's longest-surviving manufacturers, its new models looking like pristine classic sports cars of yesteryear, shrouding up-to-date mechanical components. Its factory in Worcestershire is where contemporary methods and heritage coachbuilding skills operate in harmony for the creation of each wonderful three- and four-wheeled Morgan. A tour of the unique facility typically lasts around two hours and can be supplemented with afternoon tea and driving experiences of these sports car like no other.
Lanoguard underbody rust prevention kits
Price: £78.99
Buy from Lanoguard
Okay, while a rust prevention product might sound as exciting to unwrap on Christmas morning as toothpaste or shoe polish, the classic car owner in your life will love you for a gift of this high-quality Lanoguard underbody protection kit. With a bit of luck, it'll even mean they're out from under your feet on the big day itself as they're beneath their pride and joy liberally applying this wonder fluid with the complementary spray gun. If the classic owner in your life has already discovered the joys of Lanoguard then fear not because top-up sprays and grease pots are also available for them to keep on top of things.
Classic Additions outdoor car covers
Price: from £219.00
Buy from Classic Additions
Not every classic car owner is in the fortunate position to be able to keep their beloved motor garaged overnight. Being open to the elements, with the sun's UV rays glaring down in the summer and rain doing its worst on the other 360 days of the year can leave even the most treasured classics looking weatherworn. Plus, with chemical warfare from avian bowels and people brushing up against it to contend with, a waterproof Classic Additions car cover makes a lot of sense. Eslasticated bottoms with strong straps help keep it securely in place, while the soft, breathable fabric ensures moisture doesn't gather beneath. A range of indoor covers are also available for those who do keep their classics indoors.
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Autoglym Supreme Car Care kit
Price: £91.99 (RRP)
Buy from Autoglym's Amazon Store
One of the big names in car cleaning products, Autoglym continues to deliver the goods with its Supreme Car Care kit. This bundle includes shampoo, polish, ceramic finishing spray, wheel cleaner and protector, tyre dresser, interior shampoo, glass polish, vinyl and rubber treatment plus a cleaning mop, finishing cloth and drying cloth. To make the kit even more convenient, it all comes in a black, zip-up bag to prevent the individual bottles from rolling around your boot floor — perfect for 2025's summer show season.
British Motor Museum adopt a car
Price: from £25.00
Buy from the British Motor Museum
Not every classic car fan is able to indulge in their passion with an old vehicle of their own, which is where the Britishg Motor Museum's Adopt a Car scheme comes into its own. Buying an adoption helps fund the British Motor Heritage Trust's work in preserving cars in the Museum's collections that are of important historical significance to the nation's rich manufacturing history. Additionally, the gift recipient will receive a digital certificate of adoption and have their name added to that model's entry on the online collection.
Fortnum & Mason cars iced biscuits
Price: £29.95
Buy from Fortnum & Mason
Whether you're buying a gift for Christmas, a birthday or just because you want to, it feels indulgent to receive a present, especially when the box is in Fortnum & Mason's famous turquoise colour scheme. It won't just be fans of classic cars who enjoy tucking into these iced gems for their elevenses, despite five being shaped like classic models from yesteryear and the sixth being a baked representation of a speedometer. Despite not having engines, these biscuits won't be around for long...
Boring Car Trivia book series
Price: from £5.99 each
Buy from Sniff Petrol's Amazon Store
If there's one thing classic car fans can't get enough of, it's poring over endless nerdy statistics and facts about all manner of cars. However, there's an extra level of joy to be unlocked when they're information nuggests the reader didn't know they didn't know, wrapped-up in witty anecdotes. The four books in the Boring Car Trivia series are the work of Sniff Petrol, the nom de plume of Richard Porter's more irreverent work — if it's escaped your attention he is, among other things, the script-writing genius behind The Grand Tour and the Clarkson, Hammond and May-era Top Gear shows. Joyous, geeky and educational — buy all four and petition Porter to produce a fifth.
Beaulieu Autojumble tickets
Prices: from £25.00 (in advance)
Buy from Beaulieu Autojumble
There can't be a classic car enthusiast across the country who hasn't take their pride and joy to a show and come back with all manner of spare parts and ephemera such as old sales brochures that 'someone with a stall was selling'. Now, imagine that stall but several hundred times bigger and you begin to have a sense of what the two annual Beaulieu Autojumbles are all about with millions of classics-related products, both new and period, available to buy. Plus the ticket also gains you access to the wonderful National Motor Museum that's also part of the Beaulieu estate.
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