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 • A ride up Shelsley Walsh in a wild E-type has blasted off my classic year, but joy can be found without excess power
‘It feels timeless when driving on the open road’
PETER’S DREAM DRIVE LIST
[Want a Drive?]
PETER WARREN’S CAR CV • Style is clearly an attribute Peter values
Corniches are in the shadows • With certain Rolls-Royce and Bentley values slumbering, now is the time to pounce
ASK QUENTIN
Beta maxed • Record for supercharged Lancia at CCA
Market indicators • From small family estates to the jet-set, values continue to rise across much of the market
PRICE GUIDE MOVERS
TV host’s resto business • Richard Hammond announces launch of The Smallest Cog
WHAT THE K500 MARKET INDEX SAYS ABOUT THE…
IN THE TRADE
The finest Fifties Alfa? • Stunning Super Sprint on market for first time in 36 years
Classic reborn at Syon Park • London Classic Car Show’s move to outdoor format brings spectacle and celebrity
Painting Sywell Rosso • Inaugural National Ferrari Owners’ Day floods Northamptonshire aerodrome with supercars
Bentley triumphant in Yorkshire • INAUGURAL YORKSHIRE MOTOR SPORT FESTIVAL CELEBRATES THE BEST OF BRITISH
Special E-types storm Shelsley • E-type 60th anniversary celebration draws a crowd of significant showstoppers
Mansour Ojjeh, 1952–2021
July-December highlights
Buried TVR-Buick hill climber • V8-stuffed competition curio found in Welsh barn after 45-year slumber
Next Month • The October issue of Classic Cars is essential reading
LETTERS
The missing Monza
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Quentin Willson • Covid has taught us a lot about the classic car movement, and despite the upheavals we’ve all endured, there’s plenty to be optimistic about
John Fitzpatrick • Seeing Anita Taylor’s Cooper S at Shelsley Walsh brough back some vivid Mini racing memories, not least a final corner close shave at Silverstone
ROADSTER REVIVALISTS • After the Eighties power-war imploded, car makers rediscovered the lure of compact, lower-cost roadsters. Depreciation then made them bargains but the tide is turning
‘I still get younger designers telling me it was a really cool car’ • Grant Larson joined-Porsche’s design department in 1989 aged 32. Just two years later he found himself styling a new model that had a big job to do
FOR ART’S SAKE? • In contrast to the cheerful, functional Alvis models of the Twenties, coachbuilders conjured striking grand routiers on Thirties Alvis chassis. None is sleeker than this unique Speed 25
CONTINUING THE BREED
‘Somebody had used part of a Castrol oil can to repair a hole’ • Having narrowly dodged the scrapyard, this Mini Cooper then languished for almost three decades in its owner’s garage before beginning its journey back to factory perfection
MY FAVOURITE TOOL
The life story of a Tui BH2 • This ‘Baby McLaren’ lured a disillusioned racer back to the track, before deteriorating in a garden and re-emerging victorious as a unique historic competition car
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