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COMING UP… • The last weeks of the summer bring with them some of the most keenly anticipated events on the motoring calendar

Government reviews DVLA • Classic car lobby groups and owners have welcomed the full investigation into the driver and vehicle licensing agency

Can-Am inspired road rocket launches

NEWS FEED

A peek into the Privé • Le Mans greats, rare Ferraris and new restomods are all heading to Blenheim Palace

Reeves Callaway b.1947

The lesser god • Octane Netherlands’ Frank Goedhart shares his love for a more affordable alternative to the Lancia Delta Integrale

The show outside a show

Peter Boita • Multiple Lotus owner, concours winner and newly recruited ICJAG classic concours judge who used to drum a bit

JAY LENO • The Collector

DEREK BELL • The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY • The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER • The Driver

Goldie’s other MG

HARNESSING THE SPIRIT OF ENDURANCE • Aston Martin has long chased success at Le Mans. Time with LM10, DB3S and DBR9 teaches us how nine decades of experience has informed today’s incredible Valkyrie hypercar

WINNING WAY • It all came together at Le Mans for Aston Martin in 1959, with the DBR1

THE ONE AND ONLY • The unique Maserati 450S Costin Zagato was raced at Le Mans by Stirling Moss in 1957 – yet its maker then cast it aside. Marc Sonnery uncovers its infamy

A SINGULAR VISION • One man was determined to create a groundbreaking British supercar – but the Panther Solo II fell short of its ambitious target. Glen Waddington suggests it should be better remembered

LAGONDA WAY UP • Three men in vintage cars, 13 countries, three months, 19,000km: there were bound to be a few mishaps along the way from Buenos Aires to New York…

THE TROPHY HUNTER • One Dutchman ended up with a Jensen C-V8 purely by chance. Then he began winning international concours with it

Hugh Conway • As the chairman of the Bugatti Trust retires after 20 years’ service, he shows us around its HQ – and reflects on his late father HG Conway, the noted Bugatti authority who co-founded it

TIME FURTHER OUT • Only 28 examples of the Brubaker Box kit van were ever made – but it influenced a whole generation. Mark Dixon gets his groove on

BORN IN THE USA • If you’re a Top Gun fan, you’ll find this museum a target-rich environment

Heveningham – and bust

OCTANE’S FLEET • These are the cars – and motorbikes – run by the magazine’s staff and contributors

Tracking Aston’s heritage

Doris gets a little damp

Radio ham

Ninety-nine not out

Light, fantastic • Other interesting cars we’ve been driving

Grown-ups’ hot hatch

Different also means better

Frank Wootton • Wartime RAF artist who illustrated many 1950s car brochures and magazines

Tupperware • The bowl that burped and shunned the shops

Mechanical democracy • It may be comfort food rather than haute cuisine, but Seiko’s 5 is revolutionary

Seiko 5 • If you needed any more convincing…

Gear

Books

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Bonhams tops £10m at FoS sale • £3.3m one-off Koenigsegg racer leads anniversary Goodwood auction

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