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JIM CLARK RACERS TESTED – PROPERLY! • IndyCar legend Dario Franchitti drives the ex-Clark Cortina and Elan

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Salon Privé London, 21-23 April

COMING UP… • With new events and old favourites to choose from, you’ll have no bother at all filling the long days of June

Royal Navy Submarine Museum • Exploring below the surface

The future of fuel • With tech moving so rapidly, this is the current state of play

Octane supports Heveningham Tour • Spectacular Suffolk concours is back on the calendar

NEWS FEED • Hamilton cast to be seen at The Classic; XK gets new clothes and heart; CMC meet; Motul partnership; Deuce date; Matty retires; Khamsin and TVR parties; and Shelsley stormers

City gets even slicker • Highlights from the Dudding collection, plus Porsche 356s, Mercedes and Ducati take centre stage in London

Portuguese museum opens second site

Obituaries

High roller • Arwel Richards discovered that his Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow had a former owner with a storied past

Cordless tools

Peter Haynes • Ex-journalist and PR guru with vintage cars coursing through his veins; now RM Sotheby’s marketing director and ardent Historic racer

JAY LENO • The Collector

DEREK BELL • The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY • The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER • The Driver

Life of a racy grandmother

ONE TRUE ORIGINAL • It may look dusty, but this extraordinarily well-preserved Aston Martin DB6 could be the best of its type. Stephen Archer explains

HOW TO REALLY TURN HEADS • Remarkably, the collection that boasts the world’s fastest Citroën also yields what is arguably the most beautiful

SAINT OF THE CIRCUIT • There aren’t so many Volvo P1800s in Historic racing, though maybe there should be – as both history and this brilliant build would suggest

ARCHITECTURE AND MORTALITY • Norman Foster has curated a stunning new exhibition in Spain, celebrating the endangered species that is the motor car. Stephen Archer was on the opening night’s guest list

LOOKING WITH YOUR EARS • A visual exhibition at the Guggenheim in Bilbao is one thing. Hearing it is quite another. Nick Mason of Pink Floyd has been curating a soundtrack to match

NOT FOR SHOW-OFFS • Built for Japan’s ultra-conservative ultra-wealthy, this demure limo hides a V12 torch under its bushel. Glen Waddington explores the exotic culture of the Toyota Century

Nick Hull • As the Jaguar XJ220 supercar hits 30 years of age, Octane meets a linchpin from its troubled gestation

BIRTH OF THE LEGEND • Bugatti’s origins were in this tiny voiturette, small in stature but gigantic in ambition. Massimo Delbò takes a trip back in time

When more is just enough • 1989 PORSCHE 930 TURBO S

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

Just gets better and better • 2000 HONDA INTEGRA TYPE R

Soft top, hard times • 1989 BMW 320i CONVERTIBLE

A lack of engagement • 1950 FORD CLUB COUPE

OTHER NEWS

Second time lucky • 2022 BIZZARRINI 5300GT REVIVAL CORSA

When roads are optional • 2022 RANGE ROVER

Small wonder • 1993 MARCOS HERITAGE MkVI

Buy one if you can • 2022 PORSCHE CAYMAN GT4 RS

This is hardcore • 2011 BMW M3 GTS

Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky • Ukrainian aristocrat who brought glamour to car design

Dualit toaster • Need to make lots of toast? Fan of industrial chic? Then buy a six-slot Dualit, as caterers have for 70 years

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