Classic Sports Car

Welcome

To spot a ʻturboʼ badge on the back of a modern car is a rarity, yet the majority of vehicles still clinging on to internal combustion in the face of the inexorable electric advance will almost certainly feature at least one of them under the bonnet....

Welcome

No, we haven’t gone completely potty: we aren’t suggesting that the blue-collar hero Ford Capri is a direct rival to the blue-blooded Aston Martin Vantage. However, if you have dreamed of owning arguably Britain’s greatest muscle car, but are operating...

BUYER’S GUIDE PORSCHE’S BRILLIANT BARGAIN CAYMAN

BUICK RIVIERA VS MERCEDES 250SE

BUICK RIVIERA VS MERCEDES250SE

THE BIG PICTURE

More than 2000 classics of all shapes, sizes and ages gathered at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, on 26 July for the Festival of the Unexceptional (p12). The event celebrates cars that were once unremarkable everyday sights on UK roads, but which are...

ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOMS A CENTURY OF ELEGANCE

THE BIG PICTURE

Peter Brock powers to the first of his record nine Bathurst enduro wins, on 1 October 1972, the last before the distance was upped from 500 miles to 1000km for ’73. Damp conditions at Mount Panorama Circuit in New South Wales led to polesitter Allan...

THE BIG PICTURE

Quite apart from being a brilliant racing driver, with the 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans (alongside Manuel Reuter and Stanley Dickens) among his achievements, the late, great Jochen Mass (p22) was also a coach and mentor for the Mercedes-benz Junior Team...

DRIVING MRS BOND’S MERCURY COUGAR

Every big-screen icon and the films that made them famous, from Bullitt to Baby Driver

UNIQUE CITROËN DS SELF-DRIVING BRITISH INNOVATOR

THE BIG PICTURE

Just before reaching the Whitby section of Yorkshire’s new Route YC road trip (p70), here ‘our’ Mercedes-benz 420SL passes under a stretch of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway as a Class 31 diesel locomotive chunters overhead. The journey takes in the...

BRAVING BENTLEY’S PRE-WAR HYPERCAR

BRAVINGBENTLEY’S PRE-WARHYPERCAR

Welcome

There is a pleasing serendipity to the timing of this issue. As we go to press, there remains a feverish scrap on social media and in the papers about the recent Jaguar (or should that be jaguar?) rebranding exercise and the Type 00 concept car. But...

THE BIG PICTURE

The MGB is a classless classic, from a pub-meet staple to a steed for Stirling Moss on the Pirelli Classic Marathon in 1990. The 60-year-old was recovering from a scooter accident, but that didn’t hold him back as he faced Clay Regazzoni, Bobby Unser,...

Welcome

It feels slightly perverse to me that one of the few engine configurations I have never owned (well, short of anything with 10 or more cylinders, which have always been well outside my price range) is the one for which I have the greatest affection....

The big picture

Changeable weather led to some spectacular racing at the Goodwood Revival meeting from 6-8 September (see p10) – and equally dramatic photographs, such as Jeff Bloxham’s superb image of James Baxter’s ERA E-type GP2 splashing through the rain during...

FAMILY CLASSIC FUN FIVE PIONEERING PEOPLE CARRIERS

PORSCHE 356 PIONEER DRIVING THE FIRST OF THE LINE

AMERICA’S SWEETHEART FORD F-SERIES PICK-UP PIONEER

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