Classic & Sports Car

Classic & Sports Car is the world's best-selling classic car magazine and the undisputed authority for all owners and enthusiasts. Whether your interest is Italian Exotica, British sports cars of the 1950s and 1960s or modern classics, every issue of Classic & Sports Car perfectly complements the sheer joy and nostalgia of owning a classic car.

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Classic & Sport Car

2020’s best bits • It’s been an annus horribilis for most of us, but our classics have still given us plenty of highs among the lockdown lows

BEST OF 2020: PHOTOGRAPHERS’ FAVOURITE PICS

RACE TRIO LEADS BEST OF THE BEST

VAUXHALL COLLECTION MOVES

HERO underlines industry’s value

Wings bus to fly again

HIGH-PERFORMANCE FANS HEAD FOR THE HILLS

RACE DATES FIRMED UP

LANCIA PARTY IN THE PARK

GUIDE DEMISE PREMATURE

SHELSLEY AUTOJUMBLE

Obituary • GERRY COKER 1922-2020

TRUST AMONG FIVA WINNERS

LOCK YOUR LANDIES

Federation update

VSCC TIMES IT RIGHT

Paddock profile

Bolton’s best tops Florida

TOP CAT CHASE EXPECTED

ITALY TAKES OVER THE HILL

TRANSATLANTIC LE MANS ALFA SZ

Hall family’s personal barn haul

LOST HURG RE-EMERGES

REPAINTED TURNER CONTINUES UK TRAVELS

Cry for help frees shed Seven from suburbia

PRE-WAR MERC PROJECT FINDS A NEW HOME

Early Auburn is an original pre-war survivor

MAIDEN DAY MINI REAPPEARS

Look familiar? • Want to track down a lost love or looking for history on your current classic? Send details and pictures to the p9 address or email your requests to alastair.clements@haymarket.com

Book of the month

Model of the month

NEXT-GEN CLASSIC TEES

Tested this month

Mick WALSH • ‘Wyer and Salvadori were both impressed by lead Anthony Steel’s driving of the Lagondas – no doubt modelled on Peter Collins’

Simon TAYLOR • ‘Edgar’s fame grew when he passed the entire field at Brooklands by hooking his right-hand wheels over the top lip of the banking’

Martin BUCKLEY • ‘I’m expecting to hear any day now about someone who’ll build you an Aurelia lowrider that dances on gas struts to gangster rap’

LETTERS

A glimpse behind the curtain during the glory days of F1

Pedant of the month • Pedant of the month wins a C&SC baseball cap. Send your observations to alastair. clements@haymarket.com

Comments & clarifications

FIRING UP THE ULTIMATE DRIVING MACHINE • Before the Motorsport division stamped its badge on rapid BMWs, the 2002 and 3.0 CSL had already laid the spectacular groundwork

BMW 3.0 CSL

BMW 2002

‘OF ALL THE ATTEMPTS TO RESTYLE THE XK150, THE BERTONE WAS IN A DIFFERENT LEAGUE’ • As spectacular as it is elusive, the ‘XKE’ was the beautiful result when Nuccio Bertone and Franco Scaglione took on Jaguar’s XK150

A SPY IN THE RANKS • Taking a glimpse between the pages of a new book celebrating the photography of Brian Joscelyne

WINGS OF ICARUS • Reputation precedes the De Loren DMC-12 and lesser-known Bricklin SV -1, both before their time but unable to fulfil their promise

BRICKLIN SV-1

GEORGE NICOLAS

DE LOREAN DMC-12

CHRIS WILLIAMS

OPEN AND SHUT CASE • Criticised by its first owner but subsequently cherished, the unique Jensen C-V8 convertible is today an intriguing ‘what might have been’

JENSEN C-V8 CONVERTIBLE

VOWED TO RENEW • A lifetime of emotion is wrapped up within this hotted-up Renault 5 Turbo 2, which has brought two families together through love and loss

ALPINE TRIAL...