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 • Keep that classic original, it’s a piece of history and the designers knew best? Or make it how you want, it’s your car after all and it’s there to serve your needs?

‘My MG is going to feel a bit sluggish after driving this’ • Retired dentist Gordon Lang has owned a vast array of Italian classics and roadsters, but he’d never driven a Fiat 124 Spider until today…

Keep your bargain radar tuned • Austin Mini Cooper plus Monte Carlo Rally fairy dust creates magic

BMW’s E46-generation 3 Series is on the move

Rover P5Bs live in a parallel universe

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Peeled away • DJ’s Plus 8 snapped up at Bonhams sale

Market indicators Bargain buys of all kinds at this month’s sales

Focus RS –the modern classic to buy now

Bargain hunters should give Herald another look

PRICE GUIDE MOVERS

Like a fine wine

Identity crisis • Stunning unique period-modified Ferrari 250GT Lusso to be offered by RM

Big bangers blitz Sussex • Atrack-shaking demonstration of Cam-Am cars defined the 81st Members’ Meeting

Super Salon • Supercars past and present define this year’s Salon Privé London

May-June event highlights • Historic racing turns up the heat all over the country

Peter Mullin’s B-team Bugattis • Fleet of unrestored rarities from Mulhouse museum’s spillover collection is sold off

OVERLAPPING ORBITS • Exploring late Sixties grand touring from the extreme perspectives of a Ferrari Daytona and Ford Capri 1600GT

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Flaming haemorrhoids

QUENTIN WILLSON • Somehow a trip to preview a new electric SUV saw me locked in conversation with Richard Hammond and car designer Toby Ecuyer about the E-type

THE INSIDERS • Unlike today, most 1970s footballers drove humdrum cars. But, even then, the most flamboyant players liked to tool around in some tasty, and flashy motors

MILD TO Wild • Messing around with classic designs can enhance the whole ownership experience, or corrupt the very virtues that make them more appealing than modern cars. Here, six exemplars of different modification schools make their case

SPOILER ALERT • Plymouth built the Superbird to dominate NASCAR’s ovals. The result was one of the wildest roadgoing homologation specials ever – but can this rare bird take flight on UK roads?

‘The gearbox was out of a Toyota Celica; the fuel lines were garden hose’ • Despite being outwardly shiny, this rare Maserati 3500GTI harboured household wiring, cereal boxes and bathroom sealant in its unhinged catalogue of bodgery. Could Project Heaven bring it back from the brink?

ROOM WITH A FAST VIEW • As the fast estate enters its final combustionengined chapter, we revisit two pioneers of a genre arguably mastered by German brands – the E34 BMW M5 Touring and the Audi RS2 Avant

THE LIFE STORY OF A 1983 Skoda Rapid • Skoda’s first foray into British saloon-car racing with this Rapid was successful, but short-lived. This is its story, through race victory, show stardom, long-term storage and sympathetic restoration

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