Classic Cars

Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine. It defined the world of classic motoring 40 years ago and still does it today. Every issue is put together by our team of classic car experts and enthusiasts. Using the best expert writing and photography, the magazine helps you experience what it's like to drive, keep and restore the classic cars of days gone by. We bring the stories and people behind the cars to life - showing you how to buy, keep and enjoy your cars. Every issue of Classic Cars is packed with: - Road tests - Drive stories - Expert buying advice - News and events coverage Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine.

Welcome • Britain’s once most prestigious car struggled to escape banger status longer than more humble designs. A victim of inverted snobbery or other forces at work?

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‘When you hit the accelerator, it really becomes a wolf and the scenery blurs…’ • As a teenager Dan Mackley lusted after the Talbot Sunbeam Lotus. Will the rally-bred hero prove as scintillating as he’d always hoped or a busted rwd Eighties flush?

Three bargains, three meanings • Was this Ferrari 308GTB Vetroresina a bargain or a sign of changing tastes?

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Racers: not enough competition • Recent key event-based sales struggle to shift even the most well-storied racers

Marmon leads pre-war market • Significant US autumn sales will show the direction of travel – from Europe too?

Ferrari collection should define values • Inventory of modern supercars to be offered at Zurich sale

IN THE TRADE

Pomp and Circumstance • Concours of Elegance showcased British automotive history at Hampton Court

From Beach to Blenheim • Veterans fresh from Pebble Beach brought ever-more glamour to Oxfordshire for Salon Privé

October-January highlights • The cold is no excuse not to enjoy your car…

Garden-find Elva Courier reunited with its first owner • Unusual-specification East Sussex-built sports car rescued by enthusiasts

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Next Month • The January issue of Classic Cars is looking fast

LETTERS

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QUENTIN WILLSON • Really, after following this market for more than four decades, I can honestly say we’re in the best place we’ve ever been, awash with well-restored value

ALEX RILEY • As the vagaries of wear, tear, and unknown levels of maintenance expertise affect a car, it’s hard to know if the example you’re driving is truly representative

Palace Revolution • 60 years ago, the Silver Shadow changed Rolls-Royce, and the concept of luxury cars forever. We reflect on its impact with a drive in this impeccable example

Silver Shadowing the stars • How the Sixties Rolls-Royce simultaneously epitomised Swinging London and the establishment

‘I WOULDN’T HAVE WANTED TO GET MARRIED IN ONE!’ • Steve Drewitt started restoring Rolls-Royces in the Seventies – just in time for a glut of depreciated, ailing Silver Shadows to land on his doorstep. Now, he remembers the Shadow’s darkest days – and its route out of the doldrums

TAILOR-MADE TESTAROSSA • One man’s dream of creating his own bespoke Nineties Ferrari TR should never have worked this well. No wonder it took ten years of effort from the very best in the business

‘I later discovered someone had shot it’ • This TVR Sagaris prototype was thought long lost until one intrepid buyer tracked it down online. But was it too badly thrashed to save?

BIG IN JAPAN • While the crises of the Seventies had ravaged much of the established car industries, Japan prospered through innovation....