Classic car tours
Take your classic car on a grand tour, under the care of experienced Tour Director, Ian Glass.
All Country Lane Tours are designed to be a relaxing holiday with a vintage or classic car. Daily mileages are frequently low with numerous halts of at least two nights.
Please send your enquiry to countrylanetours@gmail.com or phone Tour Director Ian Glass on 01824 790280 if you’d like to find out more.
2025 tours Please click here to see our latest tour update!
2025 - 16th Credit Crunch Special, Wirral Peninsula and Liverpool April 6th – 9th (10th) & Our 5th Bridgnorth tour May 14th – 19th. 5th, each year a great success! June, date to be decided. This will be a five, possibly six night stay in Yorkshire. & Welsh Wander, based around Llandrindod Wells August 1st – 4th (5th) & South Coast and the Isle of Wight September 4th – 12th. December the Christmas Party, date and venue to be decided.
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Classic car tours Gallery
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2022 / 2023 & 2024 past tour highlights.
2022 was an interesting catch-up year as nothing much occurred in 2021. Certainly it illustrated people were fed up and eager to get out in their cars. The synopsis gives you an idea.
13th Credit Crunch Special (April 24th-27th) Durham 63 cars took part.
7th Viking Tour (May 18th - June 1st). 20 cars took part.
Chateaux, Champagne & Circuits (July 17th – 29th). This tour, the final Continental event after twenty years, was a great success, although the weather was inordinately hot on a couple of days, 15 cars took part.
South Coast & Isle of Wight (September 16th – 23rd). Starting in Portsmouth with a visit to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, crossing to the Isle of Wight for two nights before returning to the mainland for four nights at the luxury Master Builders Hotel in Bucklers Hard on the Montagu estate this proved another success and all 26 spaces available (number of rooms at Master Builders Hotel) were filled. Event will run again next year.
Christmas Party (December 2nd – 5th). After the great success of last year with 25 cars taking part, with superb food, and amazing surrounding scenery such as the Elan Valley dams, it is again at the Metropole Hotel in the picturesque Victorian spa town of Llandrindod Wells. Obviously you're not expected to attend in a classic if the weather is bad, but it's a chance to meet up with friends and just enjoy the surroundings. Limited availability so early booking advisable.
There was a tremendous response to events in 2023, limited spaces still available on these remaining 2024 Tours, be quick!
15th Credit Crunch Special, Stratford on Avon (April 7th-10th 2024)
The fifteenth Credit Crunch Special (SUNDAY / MONDAY / TUESDAY / (WEDNESDAY) is based at the 4-star Stratford Manor Hotel, Stratford-on-Avon. It's in a quiet location about three miles outside the town and set in spacious grounds with a swimming pool and spa facilities.
4th Bridgnorth Tour EXTRA date added 15th - 20th May!
This very popular four night tour is based at the Old Vicarage Country House Hotel and takes in a tour of the world renowned restoration business of CMC (Jaguar specialists), the amazing cliff railway, a run from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster on the Severn Valley steam railway, the Kiddrminster carpet museum, historic Harvington Hall, Daniel's Mill, and much more. Entries limited to just fourteen cars as that's the total number of rooms at the hotel. The event was fully booked in a week by regular clients and is now running a second time 15th - 20th (FOURTH TIME RUNNING IN 12 MONTHS!). Many rooms already gone
6th Eire Odyssey (June 28th - July 13th)
This is a spectacular run through southern Ireland, starts in Waterford and finishes in Dublin, following the route mainly taking by previous Odysseys as far as Limerick with the Galway Coast, Westport, Sligo and Athlone added.
Chateau Tour (September 8th - 14th)
Chateau La Chatreuse Du Val Saint Esprit, just fifty miles from Calais, needs no introduction to regular clients. It's been a favourite stopover on the way to Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, and elswhere and is the base for all six nights with short forays each day through local villages and quiet roads to visit some fantastic venues, just one being the Louvre at L ens.
FULL INFORMATION ON ALL EVENTS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST - SIMPLY EMAIL POSTAL ADDRESS TO countrylanetours@gmail.com OR CALL IAN ON 01824 790280