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Classics World

Oct 01 2021
Magazine

Each issue is packed with the best down-to-earth advice, useful specialist information and news based on realistically priced classic cars, which will inspire you to buy, repair and restore your own classic cars. Please note: This digital version of the magazine does not currently include the covermount items or content you would find on printed newsstand copies

Editor

Classics Monthly

UNEXCEPTIONAL WINNERS • A 1989 Proton 1.6 GL Black Knight is crowned winner of Hagerty's 2021 Festival of the Unexceptional, with a Peugeot 106 XN as runner up.

GRAHAM ROBSON 1936-2021

LAMBORGHINI COUNTACH VOTED ULTIMATE CAR PIN-UP

SIMPLY BRITISH AT BEAULIEU

NEW COROLLA RECORD

ARTISTS GIVEN U.S. CAR TREAT

COMPETITION WINNERS

PRODUCTS

LETTERS

IAIN AYRE IT'S TOO MUCH AGGRO

ROD KER POWER TO THE PEDAL

LONGBRIDGE LEGACY • Some cars are neglected and fall by the wayside, others are more fortunate and get restored. Only a select few are lucky enough to be maintained in perfectly original condition from new. Romer Adams' Austin Somerset is one of them.

THE FINAL FLOURISH • Some models go out of production with a bang, others exit the automotive stage with a whimper. Just where the Vauxhall VX 490 fits on this spectrum is still up for debate.

READERS' CARS ROOTES' ROCKET SUNBEAM TIGER • Sunbeam V8 Tigers are not exactly two-a-penny, but some are rarer than others. This one happens to be an extremely rare RHD Mk2 example, and owes its very existence to an unusual set of circumstances.

10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT... MG T-TYPES • MG’s family of T-Type roadsters never left their pre-war origins behind, but carried the Abingdon company all the way through to 1955. Here are a few of the more trivial things that happened along the way.

WELCOME TO THE UK • Styled in the UK along American lines and built by Ford in South Africa, our newest project car is a Mk3 Cortina with heritage that spans three continents. It is also a perfect slice of 1970s nostalgia that turns heads wherever it goes, and just happens to be a delight to drive as well. What more could you ask for?

Morgan Martyn -Jones

On the road again

Paul Wager

Timing is everything

Farewell to the E Type

Will Contributor Armston-Sheret

On four wheels again

Troubleshooting with Steve Rothwell • Our helpful Q&A hotline may be able to solve your classic-related problems, so email us at classics.ed@kelsey.co.uk and we’ll do our best to help.

CHEAP AND CHEERFUL? • Flush from the success of our Project Shoestring Acclaim, we go shopping once more in the classic car bargain basement and this time end up with a 141A Fiat Panda.

TENGTOOLS

PROJECT BLOWER BENTLEY • Rob Hawkins doesn’t like the look of the rusty fuel pipes and perished hoses under our Bentley, so he replaces them and the fuel filter, and also the aging drivebelts.

AUSTIN MONTEGO ESTATE • Having cut a big hole in the roof of our project Montego, the time has come to start filling it in. Unfortunately this repair is made up of a rather complex combination of panels that needs careful shaping and patient layering back up.

TENG TOOLS®

ROVER P6 • Rover’s P6 saloon from the 1960s and 1970s was regarded as advanced for its time, and today it is a very practical and usable classic. Here’s what you need to know if you are thinking of buying one.

INSURANCE COSTS

ANDREW EVANSON

Thanks to

YOU MIGHT ALSO CONSIDER... • Classics Monthly editor Simon Goldsworthy and Lancaster Insurance’s Car Clubs Manager Dave Youngs are allowed just one car each that they would recommend as a Rover P6 rival

ALLOYED PLEASURE • The Audi A2 brought radical...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 116 Publisher: Kelsey Publishing Ltd Edition: Oct 01 2021

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: September 3, 2021

Formats

OverDrive Magazine

Languages

English

Each issue is packed with the best down-to-earth advice, useful specialist information and news based on realistically priced classic cars, which will inspire you to buy, repair and restore your own classic cars. Please note: This digital version of the magazine does not currently include the covermount items or content you would find on printed newsstand copies

Editor

Classics Monthly

UNEXCEPTIONAL WINNERS • A 1989 Proton 1.6 GL Black Knight is crowned winner of Hagerty's 2021 Festival of the Unexceptional, with a Peugeot 106 XN as runner up.

GRAHAM ROBSON 1936-2021

LAMBORGHINI COUNTACH VOTED ULTIMATE CAR PIN-UP

SIMPLY BRITISH AT BEAULIEU

NEW COROLLA RECORD

ARTISTS GIVEN U.S. CAR TREAT

COMPETITION WINNERS

PRODUCTS

LETTERS

IAIN AYRE IT'S TOO MUCH AGGRO

ROD KER POWER TO THE PEDAL

LONGBRIDGE LEGACY • Some cars are neglected and fall by the wayside, others are more fortunate and get restored. Only a select few are lucky enough to be maintained in perfectly original condition from new. Romer Adams' Austin Somerset is one of them.

THE FINAL FLOURISH • Some models go out of production with a bang, others exit the automotive stage with a whimper. Just where the Vauxhall VX 490 fits on this spectrum is still up for debate.

READERS' CARS ROOTES' ROCKET SUNBEAM TIGER • Sunbeam V8 Tigers are not exactly two-a-penny, but some are rarer than others. This one happens to be an extremely rare RHD Mk2 example, and owes its very existence to an unusual set of circumstances.

10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT... MG T-TYPES • MG’s family of T-Type roadsters never left their pre-war origins behind, but carried the Abingdon company all the way through to 1955. Here are a few of the more trivial things that happened along the way.

WELCOME TO THE UK • Styled in the UK along American lines and built by Ford in South Africa, our newest project car is a Mk3 Cortina with heritage that spans three continents. It is also a perfect slice of 1970s nostalgia that turns heads wherever it goes, and just happens to be a delight to drive as well. What more could you ask for?

Morgan Martyn -Jones

On the road again

Paul Wager

Timing is everything

Farewell to the E Type

Will Contributor Armston-Sheret

On four wheels again

Troubleshooting with Steve Rothwell • Our helpful Q&A hotline may be able to solve your classic-related problems, so email us at classics.ed@kelsey.co.uk and we’ll do our best to help.

CHEAP AND CHEERFUL? • Flush from the success of our Project Shoestring Acclaim, we go shopping once more in the classic car bargain basement and this time end up with a 141A Fiat Panda.

TENGTOOLS

PROJECT BLOWER BENTLEY • Rob Hawkins doesn’t like the look of the rusty fuel pipes and perished hoses under our Bentley, so he replaces them and the fuel filter, and also the aging drivebelts.

AUSTIN MONTEGO ESTATE • Having cut a big hole in the roof of our project Montego, the time has come to start filling it in. Unfortunately this repair is made up of a rather complex combination of panels that needs careful shaping and patient layering back up.

TENG TOOLS®

ROVER P6 • Rover’s P6 saloon from the 1960s and 1970s was regarded as advanced for its time, and today it is a very practical and usable classic. Here’s what you need to know if you are thinking of buying one.

INSURANCE COSTS

ANDREW EVANSON

Thanks to

YOU MIGHT ALSO CONSIDER... • Classics Monthly editor Simon Goldsworthy and Lancaster Insurance’s Car Clubs Manager Dave Youngs are allowed just one car each that they would recommend as a Rover P6 rival

ALLOYED PLEASURE • The Audi A2 brought radical...


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