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Octane is the authoritative guide to the best classic cars in the world.

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COMING UP… • From a depressing year of starvation rations to a feast of motoring festivals, things are properly looking up for 2021

The Hovercraft Museum • A wonderful British celebration of skirts and fan power

A new defender of the faith • Does the classic car hobby need another trade body to lobby for it? Some key industry players think so

NEWS FEED • Treat for Morganists; Bugatti back; Lancia 037 lives again; tell Octane what you think of it; Radford relaunches with Lotus special; Aston festival; Bristol still ‘resting’; Supercar Sunday

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Salon Privé prize • Win tickets to this spectacular concours at Blenheim Palace

Much more fun than a Fiesta • Patrick Arney’s daily driver is 67 years older than he is

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Nick Whale • Long time Midlands-based car dealer and inveterate motor sport competitor who now runs a trio of classic car auction outfits

JAY LENO • The Collector

DEREK BELL • The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY • The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER • The Driver

A true all-American hero

LIGHT SPEED • It is almost 50 years since BMW and Porsche were at each other’s throats on track with the lightweight 3.0 CSL ‘Batmobile’ and 911 2.7 RS. How do these legendary homologation specials compare on the road?

When two stars collide • This Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing belonged to none other than film legend Sophia Loren. Massimo Delbò delves into its stellar history

WEST COAST, EASTERN PROMISE • Stanley Chavik used the internet to inspire his dream rod, then used the rod to move to California from the Czech Republic. And California loves it

Lee Noble • Octane meets the man behind nearly two decades of mould-breakingly brilliant sports cars and finds he has a surprise still in store

An elite memento • This Lotus Elite was bought new by the late one-time FIA president Max Mosley – and Octane played a small role in reuniting him with his first motoring love, six years ago. James Elliott tells all

Hit cover version • Touring Superleggera’s latest stunner re-wraps the guts of an undisclosed ‘well-known, mid-engined exotic’. Dale Drinnon discovers that the result is even more exotic

IN AT THE DEEP END • A 9.2-litre engine and all the mod cons of an Edwardian racer make this 1911 SCAT a handful to say the least. Zack Stiling takes on the challenge of mastering it

MONSTER’S A BALL • The Lister Le Mans is a full-bore evolution of the suave Jaguar XJ-S. But instead of madness on wheels, Ben Barry discovers a bargain alternative to the Ferrari F40

Full house • 1982 MERCEDES-BENZ 500 SL

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

OCTANE’S FLEET

Spending time in the Garden • 1965 AUSTIN-HEALEY 3000 MkIII

New boots, no kinks • 2000 HONDA INTEGRA TYPE R

Race against time • 1978 JAGUAR XJ 5.3C

Getting away from it all • 1965 TRIUMPH 2.5 PI

OTHER NEWS

Aston Martin goes a bit crazy • ASTON MARTIN VICTOR AND V12 SPEEDSTER

Home is where the heart is • AUSTIN SEVEN, TRIUMPH TR7 & VAUXHALL ASTRA

Tapping hidden potential • JAGUAR E-TYPE ‘UNLEASHED’

Picking up the pace • 2021 JAGUAR F-PACE SVR

Kia’s wild side • 2021 KIA STINGER GT-S

Vincent Bendix • Financially volatile hero of braking and sponsor of aviation

CND symbol • The nuclear age demanded an outbreak of peace, and this was the...