insurance on a 1981 skyline...?!

Classic insurance? It's old enough, i've had an '87 and an '84 car on it. They don't ask for any NCB (so you can use it on your daily if you have one), and I've never paid more than £250 a year in a fairly scummy area. That was with breakdown cover, agreed valuation, low excess and salvage retention.

All they might ask is for experience in a similar powered car, maybe RWD, just so they know you're not a wannabe drift king.

I used Sureterm first, and now I'm just about to take a policy out with Footman James. also try Herts Insurance. Don't bother with online stuff (most of them don't do it anyway, too specialised), talk to them and they'll often do you a better deal if they know exactly what you need.

Wannabe drift king? Nah, I'll keep the BM for that, use this for fun! (lol, yes I'm another one of the retro rides drifters)...

Could be worth it with the classic insurance, FMJ seem to be rubbish for anything but old beetles for me, dunno why. I had my old beetle on with them for £380 a year, bargain! But anything else... They also seem to be rubbish with mods, but if you have a different story to tell about them... do!

So, FMJ, sureterm, I'll search google for more classic policy's.


PW, you OLD GIT.

ive just got classic cover on my '88 500 sec from performance direct for £225 f/c.
may be worth a call.

Chris Knott might be worth a punt, I get a discount cos I'm in the Volvo owner's club, but you don't need to be a VOC member to get in there.

I'm paying a fugging ridiculous amount a year cos I had my accident, but CK were the cheapest, even with my six naughty points (not admitting it anywhere else but here, kids) and accident, with pre 25 youngness in there. I went with them because:

1. Tesco were a bunch of clueless fools. They gave me a f**k off renewal quote which was nearly £350 more than CK.
2. I can put the Amazon on the same policy (as it turns out Highway, who insure meh Volvo, are the same people who are now insuring my C4) for less then what it would cost for two separate policies.
3. Their customer service agents were well good yo.
4. They might tolerate me insuring a rusty Japanese (turbo) coupe that's not a starion as well without damaging my wallet too much.

Starting to think I'm with the wrong insurers. With mainstream cars Admiral were the cheapest for me by hundreds of pounds, but as soon as I got a car over 15 years old, it's shot up. I'm paying about £750 for my '89 Escort 1.6, which is only about £70 short of the 170bhp Alfa 156 I was running before. Gonna wait til June to get my second years no claims bonus, and have a look around modified/(Classic?) insurers. Looking at other peoples experiences on here I'm being well and truly shafted.

Indeedy, I was thinking about that, know some people with some late 80s motors on classic insurance but guessing I'm gonna have to wait til she's AT LEAST 20 before I get any classic car insurers to agree with me.
Ah well, patience is the key with these things I guess, not planning on getting shot of it any time soon anyway - would just be nice to be paying a fair price for insurance on a 1.6 estate, lol.

Heh..

I know that car, one of the guys @ RAF Cottesmore owns it , used to come down to my modified car meets.

Yeah, opinion?

And thanks guys, will start ringing round on my lunch break later.

Yup, wassisface is selling it, and if I can't get it, I'll stick the link up so someone else here can - but until then, I'm gonna be a greedy person

Know of any problemo's with it at all?
Thanks guys, I didn't manage to get any quotes earlier, will do tomorrow.