Classic Cars

Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine. It defined the world of classic motoring 40 years ago and still does it today. Every issue is put together by our team of classic car experts and enthusiasts. Using the best expert writing and photography, the magazine helps you experience what it's like to drive, keep and restore the classic cars of days gone by. We bring the stories and people behind the cars to life - showing you how to buy, keep and enjoy your cars. Every issue of Classic Cars is packed with: - Road tests - Drive stories - Expert buying advice - News and events coverage Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine.

Welcome • Take a seat, and think back to the early experiences that might have turned you into the car obsessive you are today. Now consider these pages as your therapy

‘Countach!’ • German cars dominate Rob Castilla’s classic car CV. Time, then, to put him in a timewarp Lamborghini Countach 5000S to find out exactly where his automotive loyalties lie

AC Greyhound was a real steal • Studying the form before diving in with your bids could avoid an overspend

MGR V8 prices slip to a new value level

Early Rolls Silver Shadows and Bentley T1s surprise

ASK QUENTIN

Market indicators • Some surprising results in both directions with mileage and rarity being major drivers

ACA success • GT Austin heads strong result in Norfolk

Soaring rise of the BMW E30 won’t let up

Daimler SP250 starts to look like a bargain

PRICE GUIDE MOVERS

Box-ticking beauty

Sold for $51,705,000 • RM sets a record auction price for a Ferrari. But is this 250GTO result all it seems?

Mercedes rules F1 roost • Stuttgart snatches headlines from Maranello with F1 W04

IN THE TRADE

Top of the market slowed in 2023

Powering back to Birmingham • NEC show hosts unearthed competition classics and vintage centenarians

Veteran turnout on the Mall • Film stars reunited for the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run

December-April highlights • Season breaks be damned – there’s plenty on

The future’s bright… • Orange Mercedes 190SL is ripe for restoration after 48 years in a Norfolk lock-up

Mk2 Jag: all the trimmings, but certainly no turkey

German Ford time-capsule showroom

ICON VS THE UNDERDOG • Porsche 964RS faces up to the TVR Griffith 500

CUT but no glass

Classic Cars

QUENTIN WILLSON • Don’t mistake these falling prices for a sign that the love for classics has left town – good cars are still selling well, as long as sellers pitch them realistically

ALEX RILEY • While pondering the magical combination of a big engine in a small car, I reckon I’ve come up with the definitive performance formula for optimum joy

THE INFLUENCERS • From the worlds of film, race, rally and television, they’re the classics that whet our formative appetites and turned us into petrolheads in an instant. Join us as we simultaneously raise the chequered flag and shout “lights, camera, action!”

Under the influence

TRAILB LAZER • After Turbo Technics helped to engineer the Saab 99 Turbo, the boss bought one of the two test cars. Now, 45 years later, it’s fully restored and ready to show how it changed motoring forever

‘AT ONE POINT WE WERE TURBOCHARGING 15% OF FORD’S UK XR4x4 SALES’ • The man behind Turbo Technics had an eyewitness view to one of the most exciting periods in car history. Geoff Kershaw describes being at the eye of the storm, and what came after

LIFE STORY OF A Guyson E12 • Born out of a crashed E-type, this unique Jaguar has served as concept car, daily driver, company advert and concours contender

WILD AT HEART • Why settle for the subtle pleasures of a...