Classic Car Hire
We have spent over 35 years enjoying classic motoring on the back roads of France, firstly because the only cars we could afford then were old MG’s and the like, and secondly because Nick’s work has always involved finding out of the way places in Europe and especially south-west France. It was therefore fairly inevitable that when we settled in France, Nick having started one of the pioneering businesses renting out classic cars in the UK and consequently a becoming a founder and now Life President of the Historic and Classic car Hirer’s Guild (HCHG), we would soon be renting classic cars for scenic trips out from Le Logis du Paradis.
Some people may also remember our innovative programme of Citroen 2CV’s for hire in this region in the 1990’s, with an episode of the BBC ’Holiday“ programme memorably featuring Jilly Goolden and her daughter Verity trying out this unusual form of transport! In those days, clients usually arrived on the TGV. Today, of course, we have the low-cost airlines, with Angouleme as the latest destination to be served imminently from London.
So, we have plenty of experience of helping clients into the delights of older and especially open cars in order to slow down and savour driving them on the wonderfully scenic and empty roads of our region. If you have lost the taste for motoring on the traffic clogged and over regulated roads of the UK and northern Europe, prepare to have all your appetites for driving reawakened!
We aim to be very flexible in meeting your wishes. We can arrange for collection and return transfers from your point of arrival. You can take a car by the day, or at more economical rates for your whole stay here. We will provide daily routes from short and easy to longer and more ambitious, in order to explore all the wonderful coastal and countryside surroundings within one day’s touring reach from La Magdeleine. The cars are well maintained and fully insured. We will reserve restaurants and advise about attractions and opening hours. We will even lend you a sun hat! Bonne route!
We heard the throaty burble of an MG engine and our transport for the day was nosing its way into the sunlight from one of the fine stone barns around the courtyard. We had booked the MGB convertible in advance
Up though the miles of vines, green and luxuriant, promising a bumper crop for the harvest of the Cognac and pineau production in the coming autumn. The views opened up from here and we could see right across to the Charente valley with both the towns of Jarnac and Cognac in the far distance.
We had probably been driving for less than an hour and a half, but already it was as if the MGB had been mine forever.
