The Classic Motor Show is at the NEC from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 November. Advance adult tickets are £40.20 to £47.20 by day; parking £13.95 if pre-booked.

The Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show is at the NEC from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 November 2026. It is on sale now, the price depends on the day, and Friday is the dearest day to go, not the cheapest. Advance adult tickets are £47.20 on Friday, £42.20 on Saturday and £40.20 on Sunday.

The NEC sits inside the Solihull borough, at Bickenhill, which makes this the biggest single weekend of visitors the borough gets in November. Everything below was checked against the show’s own pages on 30 September 2026.

Dates and opening times

  • Friday 13 November: 10am to 6pm
  • Saturday 14 November: 9am to 6pm
  • Sunday 15 November: 9am to 5pm

Where: NEC Birmingham, North Avenue, B40 1NT. The show fills seven halls, which the organisers put at more than 16 football pitches. (Classic Motor Show)

Ticket prices

These are the advance prices the show publishes. Each includes the £2.95 transaction fee, which is charged once per order, not per ticket. Advance booking closes at midnight on Thursday 12 November; after that, tickets are sold on the door and online during the show.

Ticket Friday Saturday Sunday
Adult (16+) £47.20 £42.20 £40.20
Child (5 to 15) £28.75 £29.25 £27.25
Family (2 adults, up to 3 under 16s) £94.20 £88.70 £86.70
Group of 10+ (per person) £39.25 £34.75 £33.25

Child tickets must be bought with an adult ticket, and under 5s go free with a paying adult. The child prices are as the show prints them, including Saturday’s being higher than Friday’s while the adult price runs the other way. A carer can come free with a visitor who needs one; choose the carer ticket when booking and bring proof of disability.

For two adults and up to three children the family ticket is the one to buy; the show says it saves up to £76 against separate tickets.

Multi-day passes (per adult): Friday and Saturday £69.20; Saturday and Sunday £63.20; all three days £89.20.

The organisers do not publish a door price. The page says only that tickets are available on the door during opening hours. (Classic Motor Show)

What is on

The show’s own figures: more than 3,000 cars and bikes, 320+ clubs, which it calls the world’s largest gathering of vehicle clubs, 450+ traders including an indoor autojumble, and about 600 vehicles for sale, 500 of them in the Iconic Auctioneers sale. The 2026 theme is “Débutant”, with hundreds of cars the organisers say have never been shown at the NEC before.

The headline lot this year is Jeremy Clarkson’s. Three cars from his own collection, all driven on The Grand Tour, go under the hammer without reserve in Iconic Auctioneers’ sale on Saturday 14 November: the 1982 Lancia Montecarlo Spider he drove in the final episode, a 1983 Alfa Romeo GTV6 from the Scotland special, and the 1978 Lincoln Continental Mark V from Lochdown, which still has its nitrous kit and a set of bagpipes in the boot. (Classic Motor Show)

The FAQ lists live stage appearances by Richard Hammond, Mike Brewer, Frank Stephenson and Mat Watson, a bigger modified zone, a Family Zone with Mini Rovers for children, and the Pride of Ownership vote. Which day each name appears has not been published: the organisers say the stage schedules and show map come “closer to showtime”. We will add them when they do. (Classic Motor Show FAQs)

Parking

Parking is run by the NEC, not the show. The show’s own page gives the rate as £13.95 booked in advance or £18.95 on the day. The NEC’s rule is that the £5 saving applies when you book before midnight the day before, and the whole site is cashless: card or phone only. Shuttle buses run from the car parks to the halls. Blue Badge bays are allocated by the NEC traffic staff on arrival and charged at the standard rate. (Classic Motor Show, NEC)

If you are coming from Solihull itself, our parking in Solihull page covers the town centre, and Solihull roadworks and travel has anything closed on the M42, A45 and the roads round the NEC that weekend.

By train

Birmingham International station is linked to the NEC halls by a covered walkway, a few minutes on foot. Flying in, the show says a monorail links Birmingham Airport to the NEC in 10 to 15 minutes. (Classic Motor Show)

What we will update

The stage timetable, the show map and the full auction catalogue. This page is checked again in the week of the show.

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