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

Making up for lost time

FEATURING

50 YEARS OF THE PORSCHE 911 RS 2.7 • Celebrating Zuffenhausen’s most iconic road car

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Pendine Hot Rod Races, 14-15 May

COMING UP… • Things are heating up now, literally and figuratively. Make space in your diary for these fabulous summertime events

Studebaker National Museum • Great marque celebrated at its home in South Bend, Indiana

Brooklands celebrates the past and looks to the future • Land Speed Record stars and cars recall the heroics of a century ago as the Brooklands Innovation Academy is launched

NEWS FEED • Discount on hillclimb; Shelby in Paris; event unFirles; Spanish celebration; broadened Broad Arrow; buy Salon tickets; new veteran run; Price Guide on sale; Lyn motors in; Assen treats

Women and children first! • Footman James research shows inclusivity is essential to classic car industry survival

Aurelian way • Connolly Leather’s Jonathan Connolly has enjoyed his Lancia Aurelia B20 GT for over 40 years

Classic car clocks

Heidi Mraz • This Virginia motoring artist is famed for her unorthodox methods and huge collages of cars made up from elements of their own history

JAY LENO • The Collector

DEREK BELL • The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY • The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER • The Driver

An American abroad

HERO WORSHIP • The late racing maestro Jim Clark is still revered and adored by many – not least IndyCar legend Dario Franchitti. Here are his experiences of two very special ex-Clark Lotuses

ROOFLESS AND SINFUL • Few cars are as sexy as a Ferrari Daytona, even more so in Spider form. Massimo Delbò finds out why designer Leonardo Fioravanti was so surprised to see it go topless

RETURN TO SPLENDOUR • Since this incredibly original 1934 Aston Martin MkII was dragged out of a barn, a year-long operation to preserve it is has been completed. Time to revisit

Purest of the pure • In this, the 50th anniversary year of BMW Motorsport, could the M3 CSL be the greatest M-car of all? Glen Waddington finds out

M’s GREATEST HITS • Five decades, and an ever-increasing portfolio of incredible drivers’ cars. Matthew Hayward is your guide

HAIL THE LAST CHANCE SALOONS • As Morocco’s Government forces the world’s last superannuated Mercedes taxis off its streets, we hitch a final ride

Nick Butler • The brains behind the extreme Wolfrace Sonic, Gold Cirrus supercar and a raft of hot rods still fizzes with creativity

BLOWN AWAY • Bentley is well on the way to completing its batch of a dozen Blower Continuation cars. Mark Dixon compares new and original examples on track

Ambition achieved • 2004 BMW Z4 3.0i

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

Romance and rust • 1927 FORD MODEL T

Cotswolds in a classic • 1965 AUSTIN-HEALEY MKIII

Rack but not ruin • 1981 BMW 323i TOP CABRIO

A Summer of excuses • 1999 PORSCHE BOXSTER

OTHER NEWS

Bigger and better? • ECURIE ECOSSE LM-C

A conclusive argument • ASTON MARTIN V12 VANTAGE

Saving the best until last • LAMBORGHINI LP 780-4 ULTIMAE

Open your mind • DS 9

Federico Formenti • A spotlight-shunning great who shaped post-war Italian car styling

Spaghetti Junction • Britain’s most notorious motorway interchange celebrates its 50th

George Bamford • The watch world’s leading enfant terrible, collaborator and firebrand disruptor

Omega X-33 • Flying under the radar in...