Octane

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

A taste for adventure

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ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER SHADOW • Why the time has finally come for ‘the best car in the world’

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Le Mans Classic 30 June – 3 July

COMING UP… • Don’t fret about how you’re going to choose between all these concurrent events; you can’t go wrong with any of them

Brooklands revisited • You can bank on a great day out at this historic venue

Beaulieu to be bigger and better • Exciting proposals for the National Motor Museum on its 50th anniversary

NEWS FEED • New venue for charity track day; Bugatti expo; fuel for thought; free oil service offers engine healthcheck; Speed Sixes reborn; K7 power boost; Classic attractions; Broad honoured

Jubilee tribute at Blenheim • Leading concours Salon Privé has expanded to five days, with loads on offer to hypercar-hungry weekend visitors

Obituaries

Lucky 13 • This unique 911 backdate became one man’s lockdown obsession

Knobs and buttons

Mark McArthur-Christie • Octane’s chrono correspondent is also a management consultant who isn’t keen on rapacious businesses or interfering busybodies

JAY LENO • The Collector

DEREK BELL • The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY • The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER • The Driver

Quarter-million-mile Morgan

THE RIGHT STUFF • It’s 50 years since Porsche launched the 911 Carrera RS 2.7, the most iconic 911 of all – and first to wear a tail spoiler. Matthew Hayward meets the aerodynamicist responsible, and compares both versions of the legend

GOING WEST • What would you choose to drive nearly 3000 miles across the USA in two weeks? Massimo Delbò picked a 1930 Lancia Type 227 Dilambda Cabriolet – which wasn’t without issues…

THE FULL WORKS • The short-lived MGC suffered a poor reputation as a driver’s car. The racing GTS suggests it could have been so much greater, as Richard Meaden discovers

Roger Corman • Mike Renaut speaks to filmmaker Roger Corman about the car movies he’s made during a career that spans eight decades

AS LEFT BY A GENTLEMAN OF VERONA • Just outside the Italian city of Verona is Museo Nicolis, home to 200 cars – and so much more. Massimo Delbò takes us on a privileged tour

THE APPLIANCE OF SCIENCE • One man’s technical knowledge made the 1952 Zanussi 1100 Sport far more significant than the world would remember

freeze frame • The second volume of work from a gifted amateur photographer evocatively captures motorsport in the early 1970s. Here are some highlights

50 YEARS WITH A FERRARI LUSSO • Bill Collins bought his 250 Lusso five decades ago and has cherished it ever since. Robert Coucher finds out more about its celebrity connections

The grand awakening • 1972 FIAT 500L

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

Strainer things • 1927 ALVIS 12/50

Rule breaker • 2004 BMW Z4 3.0i SE

Spreading the love • VARIOUS ALFA ROMEOS

Top news • 1965 AUSTIN-HEALEY MkIII

Keep on running • 1969 VW/SUBARU BEETLE

OTHER NEWS

Super, Smashing, Great • 2022 MORGAN SUPER 3

Meanwhile, in the USA… • 2022 LIBERTY ACE F6

Shot of adrenaline • 1960 JAGUAR XK150S

Trailer life • 2022 LAND ROVER DEFENDER 110

Space invader • 2022 DACIA JOGGER

Karl Probst • …without whom the US Army Jeep might never have existed

Corona fizzy pop • Until 2019, the name of this Welsh carbonated drink evoked only childhood innocence

Heuer Camaro • Born too late into a...