Now that you’ve got your used car for the summer, where are you going to take it?
Fortunately, the UK is blessed with no end of excuses for a drive, ranging from must-see museums and events to must-tour roads. In recent years, they have been joined by a growing roster of weekend and weekday-evening pub meets and cars-and-coffee gatherings.
A great source of information for these less well-publicised events is carevents.com, on which you can search by date, city and car event.
It recently broadened its scope to also include companies offering, for example, supercar hire, karting and circuit experiences.
To set you thinking about where you could go this summer, we have compiled a selection of drives, events and destinations to consider. Happy motoring!
Days out
With institutions including Brooklands, the British Motor Museum and the National Motor Museum to choose from, you’d think car enthusiasts’ appetite for automotive history were sufficiently served, but there are plenty more such places to visit.
Among the newest is the Museum of Land Speed near Pendine Sands in South Wales, which tells the story of speed trials there. The Great British Car Journey in Ambergate, Derbyshire, has been open for a few years now and remains an intriguing celebration of British cars with the added attraction of being able to go for drives in some of them.
Taunton’s recently opened County Classics Motor Museum is the brainchild of one local enthusiast who has been collecting interesting mainstream cars, most of them British, for years and decided to display them.
Also in Somerset, Haynes Motor Museum in Sparkford is a similar but more ambitious concept founded by Mr Haynes Manuals himself.
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