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.
THE BIG PICTURE
Welcome
WHERE TO PICK UP THE NEXT ISSUE OF C&SC
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...