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

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LAMBORGHINI vs FERRARI • Espada and 365 GTC/4: former misfits battle for new-found style supremacy

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Dragstalgia, 8-10 July

COMING UP… • The last weeks of the summer bring with them some of the most keenly anticipated events on the motoring calendar

National Museum of Arts and History, Dublin, Ireland • Ireland’s turbulent past explained – and a Guinness to enjoy

HMA voting looms, three new awards announced • There’s still time to enter for the biggest, most wide-ranging Historic Motoring Awards event yet staged

Stunning star cars head to Salon Privé

NEWS FEED • Three anniversary parades at Goodwood Revival; exhibitions in Turin celebrating rallying and in LA celebrating Warhol; Bond cars and props at auction; ‘pony car’ stamps from US

Paddy Hopkirk MBE b.1933

Ten years of Elegance • Hampton Court Concours’ big birthday bash

Prancing perfection • Ex-traffic policeman Mark Ryan has created his ideal Ferrari

Owners’ handbooks

Ben Hedley • The Cambridge-educated engineer is CEO of the Little Car Company and has a sideline in death-defying sporting escapades

JAY LENO • The Collector

DEREK BELL • The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY • The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER • The Driver

A post-vintage Volvo

WUNDERCAR! • It’s 70 years since Mercedes-Benz won at Le Mans in the 300SL Gullwing. Here we go again

NEXT STOP: MEXICO

OUT OF THE SHADOWS • Unloved for decades, the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow is now back in fashion – and with good reason, argues Mark Dixon

HERO’S RETURN • This Singer Le Mans once belonged to a tail-gunner from the intrepid wartime Dambusters mission. John Simister retraces its old Air Force haunts

GALLIC AS GARLIC • Stephen Bayley explores the ineffable Frenchness of the Peugeot 504

Alan Gow • Meet the BTCC boss who turned unknown drivers of souped-up repmobiles into household-name heroes of the racetrack

WATER WAY TO TRAVEL • In 1933, Niniette III set a World Water Speed Record. In 2022, John Simister braves the newly restored Bugatti-powered hydroplane

ONE MAN’S ENDEAVOUR • This Jaguar Mk1 has been developed to a high pitch over the last 27 years of ownership. And it became a crime-busting TV star on the way, as Robert Coucher discovers

Shockingly good news • 1966 FORD MUSTANG

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

Seams much better • 1973 PORSCHE CARRERA RS 2.7

Tyred and emotional • 1989 BMW 320i CONVERTIBLE

Singer now on song • 1935 SINGER NINE SPORTS

Staving off dis-Integration • 2000 HONDA INTEGRA TYPE R

OTHER NEWS

Electrifying the past • ELECTRIC RENAULT 5

Turned up to 707 • 2022 ASTON MARTIN DBX707

The new-fangled luxury machine • 2022 MERCEDES-BENZ S350DL

Friedrich Geiger • To many, he’s Mr Gullwing – though he wasn’t always credited

Compact Disc • It was the future, once. And there’s still something good about holding a physical embodiment of a sound source

Scheckter’s timely stash • For someone claiming little interest in watches, the F1 star has quite a collection

Sinn 356 • This German aero watch is good value and free of frills. Just resist the upgrades

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