50 years. 75. 100. 125. 140.

Across the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show this weekend, clubs are marking 95 different anniversaries and milestones, spanning cars, clubs, marques and motorsport.

Some celebrate the launch of a car. Others mark decades of a club keeping those cars on the road. There are racing anniversaries, production milestones and stories that stretch back more than a century.

And before we even get to those 95, 2026 happens to mark something rather important. It is 140 years since Carl Benz patented his motor car in 1886.

Quite a lot has happened since.

Here are just some of the stories being celebrated across the NEC this weekend.

The Midland Automobile Club has been doing this since 1901, and its anniversary display reaches back almost as far. At one end sits a 1904 De Dion-Bouton Type V, similar to the model that won the President's Cup at the inaugural competition at Shelsley Walsh on 12 August 1905.

Then the timeline gets considerably quicker. A 1969 Brabham BT30X-1 represents another chapter of British hillclimbing history. The car won a round of the 1969 British Hillclimb Championship and appears in its later 1971 specification, complete with the 3.7-litre Buick V8 fitted by hillclimb legend Roy Lane.

And then there is the newest car of the group. A completely road-legal 2007 Renault Clio Sport 197 has been competing in hillclimbs throughout 2026 and arrives as one of this year's Débutants.

Which rather neatly demonstrates that 125 years after the club was founded, getting involved in hillclimbing does not necessarily require a priceless racing car.

Sometimes a Clio will do.

Maserati's competition story began rather well. In 1926, the Tipo 26 made its racing debut and won its class.

A century later, Maserati Club UK is celebrating 100 years of racing with machinery stretching from the early years of the Trident to one of its most extreme modern creations.

Among them is a 1935 Maserati 4CS with serious competition history of its own. One of just eleven built between 1932 and 1935, the car was completed for Ettore Bianco and entered the Mille Miglia just weeks later. Bianco and co-driver Guerino Bertocchi finished first in class and seventh overall, setting a new class record. It returned to the Mille Miglia in 1936 and did it again, taking another class victory and finishing sixth overall.

That sits alongside cars including the 300S, Cooper Maserati T61P, 4200 Trofeo and Ghibli Open Cup racer.

Then there is the MCXtrema. Track-only, modern and not especially interested in understatement, it represents the other end of those 100 years and makes its first Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show appearance as a Débutant.

From the 4CS to the MCXtrema. A century of Maserati racing is quite a lot to fit on one stand.

The Bond Owners Club turns 75 this year. And it is bringing the family album.

Its display takes visitors back to 1966, itself another important year in Bond history, marking 60 years since production of the Bond Minicar came to an end. The club plans to bring together the range Bond had on sale that year, including something particularly significant: the very last Bond Minicar produced.

Alongside it will be the Bond 875, the car that replaced the Minicar and represented Bond's hopes for a new generation of machinery. Back in 1966, it was the new arrival. Sixty years later, it gets to do it again.

The 875 will make its Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show debut as part of this year's Débutants theme, while an early Bond Mk A Minicar takes the story back to where the club's 75-year history began.

Three-wheelers, sports cars and some wonderfully unconventional engineering. Bond never did have much interest in following everybody else.

Some anniversaries are celebrated with a cake. The Porsche 924 Owners Club went to Germany.

The club began the model's 50th anniversary celebrations at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show last November and has spent the year doing what the 924 was designed to do: travelling.

In May, more than 130 Porsche 924s from the UK and Europe took part in the club's Homecoming, returning to Neckarsulm where the 924 was originally manufactured. This weekend, some of those same cars arrive back at the NEC to complete the anniversary year.

And they have the mileage to prove it.

One 1983 924 NA covered more than 1,600 miles on the Homecoming trip without missing a beat, apart from losing a wheel balance weight. Another car on the stand, a black 1988 924S Le Mans, has spent its life doing exactly what its owner bought it for: road trips. Germany, Austria and even the Arctic Circle have all appeared on its itinerary.

It is joined by a white example of the same limited edition. Only 74 924S Le Mans models were produced for the UK, split evenly between 37 black and 37 white cars. Two of those 74 will sit together at the NEC this weekend.

The stand also includes a 924 Turbo that has been in the same family since new in 1980, plus a Carrera GT recreation built by an aircraft engineer who wanted something that looked like the rare factory car but could be driven without treating every mile like a financial decision.

Fifty years on, the club's message is fairly clear. These cars are still here, and they are still being driven.

The Lotus Drivers Club is another club celebrating its golden anniversary. Its display spans generations of Lotus road cars, from the Europa and Elan +2 through to the Elise, Exige and Esprit.

One of the cars has spent 2026 undergoing a rather more literal transformation. A 1968 Elan +2 arrives fresh from a complete restoration finished this year, with the project documented along the way in the club's Chicane magazine.

But despite celebrating 50 years of history, the club has made sure there are still some firsts. The Exige S2, Elise S1 and Esprit V8 are all Débutants, making their first Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show appearances.

Half a century old. Still finding new cars to bring through the doors.

The Bentley Drivers Club is celebrating its 90th anniversary with machinery from rather different ends of the Bentley story.

The headline historic car is a 1926 3 Litre Bentley Le Mans Team Car. It is joined by a Bentley Drivers Club GT race car, Continental GT and Brooklands Coupe, creating a display that stretches from the era that built Bentley's early competition reputation to the modern grand tourers carrying the badge today.

Nine decades of owners and enthusiasts. And a 100-year-old Bentley is not a bad way to mark it.

Not every anniversary story is just about the cars.

The Singer Owners' Club is marking its 75th year with a display designed to tell the history of the club itself, using photographs, badges, memorabilia and the people who have kept it going.

That includes a 1934 Singer 9 Sports Coupe owned and restored by Martyn Wray, who served as the club's secretary for an extraordinary 40 years. The club will also remember its founder and President Keith McDowall, whose commitment stretched across much of its history.

Around those stories sit cars spanning several decades, including a 1928 Junior Tourer, 1935 Le Mans Longtail, 1959 Gazelle IIIA convertible and 1962 Vogue Saloon. All but the 9 Sports Coupe are making their first appearance at the event.

Seventy-five years of a club is ultimately seventy-five years of people deciding the cars are worth keeping. The Singer stand tells both sides of that story.

There are subtle ways to celebrate a 60th birthday. Lamborghini Club UK has chosen four Miuras.

The club is marking six decades since the arrival of one of the most influential performance cars ever to wear the raging bull, with four Lamborghini Miuras together on its stand.

It is the sort of car that does not particularly need an introduction. Low. Mid-engined. Bertone-bodied. And still capable of stopping a conversation when one appears.

Four should do the job nicely.

The Daimler & Lanchester Owners' Club is using seven cars to tell its anniversary story, stretching from a 1921 Lanchester 40hp Open Tourer through to much more modern machinery.

But there is one car in particular worth finding. The 1996 Daimler Corsica Convertible is a unique one-off concept car, loaned to the club by the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust.

Only one exists, and it is making its Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show debut.

Alongside it sit cars including a 1933 Daimler limousine, a 1968 Daimler V8 2.5, a Majestic Major and a 1973 Double-Six Vanden Plas that was once used as transport for Sir William Lyons.

One hundred and thirty years produces quite a back catalogue.

And those are nowhere near all 95.

The Morris Minor Owners Club turns 50, bringing cars with stories measured as much in miles as years. One 1965 Traveller has covered more than 4,000 miles on a single European trip, while another Minor has been rebuilt so extensively its owner describes it as the automotive embodiment of Trigger's broom.

The Volvo Owners Club is marking 50 years of the 300 Series alongside 40 years of the 480. Three 300s and two 480s will form the display, and every one of them is a Débutant.

The Austin A30-A35 Owners Club has two reasons to celebrate: 75 years since the Austin A30 Seven AS3 debuted at the 1951 Earls Court Motor Show and 70 years since the A35 followed it.

The Vauxhall Viva Owners Club marks 60 years of the Viva HB with four different versions, including an Estate, four-door Saloon, Brabham and Crayford Convertible. The Droop Snoot Group celebrates 50 years of the Vauxhall Sports Hatch with five examples, including the original prototype and four cars from a production run of just 197.

The Rover 600 & 800 Owners' Club marks 40 years of the Rover 800 with a larger display including an 827 police car and one of the earliest production 825 Sterlings, while the Mercedes-Benz Club has its own model milestone, celebrating 30 years of the SLK alongside a display spanning decades of Mercedes-Benz history.

There are more. A lot more.

The numbers are impressive: 50. 60. 75. 90. 100. 125.

But the interesting bit is what those numbers represent.

Cars bought new and never sold. Cars rescued after decades off the road. Race cars that won when they were young and survived long enough to tell the story.

Clubs built by people who decided that keeping a particular badge, model or piece of motoring history alive was worth spending their weekends on.

This weekend, 95 anniversaries and milestones are being celebrated across the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show.

You can read about the numbers. Or you can walk up to the cars, meet the people who brought them and hear the stories for yourself.

We know which we'd choose.

Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show
13–15 November 2026
NEC Birmingham