Classic & Sports Car

Classic & Sports Car is the world's best-selling classic car magazine and the undisputed authority for all owners and enthusiasts. Whether your interest is Italian Exotica, British sports cars of the 1950s and 1960s or modern classics, every issue of Classic & Sports Car perfectly complements the sheer joy and nostalgia of owning a classic car.

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Classic & Sports Car • MARCH 2024 • VOLUME 42, NO 12

CLEANING UP CLASSIC FUELS • Biofuels and e-fuels could mean a greener future for historic cars, but the change won’t happen overnight

CLASSIC WELCOME FOR 2024

Cover stars return to Oxfordshire

Mullin Automotive Museum set to shut

Alpine tops Boxing Day meet

Performance Fords roar into Maastricht

Have you seen these Minis?

NICK BALDWIN 1945-2024

Federation update

AMAZONS TOP AUSTRIAN ADVENTURE

Taupo hosts classic field for Tasman Revival

Plum Pudding presents a challenge

Paddock profile

UNEARTHED ELAN IS LOST MOCK-UP

A LONG-LOVED PEERLESS

MYSTERY GIULIA SPRINT HEADS TO A NEW HOME

UNUSUAL ALLARD’S APT NEW OWNER

ORIGINAL AUSTIN RESCUED

ROADSTER TO BE RESTORED

REMARKABLE MORRIS EMERGES

Look familiar? • Want to track down a lost love or looking for history on your current classic? Send details and pictures to the p7 address or email requests to alastair.clements@haymarket.com

JOHN PARKIN • The Yorkshire-born fine artist inspired by classic speed kings and space travel

SPEED QUEENS

Is there much more of this?

An Austin Anthology III

Bentley Speed 8

Inside the Duesenberg SSJ

Hitler’s Motorcars

Raymond Henri Dietrich

Model of the month

Pick of the month

Tested this month

Mick WALSH

Simon TAYLOR

Martin BUCKLEY

Letter of the month

Pedant of the month

PORSCHE TURBOS • 50 years of an icon, with star racers and all the air-cooled 911 road cars

POWER to the PEOPLE • The early 1990s was a golden era for British V8 sports cars. TVR, Marcos and MG all took the Rover-powered route and represent great value today

V8 BANGS FOR YOUR BUCK • There’s a whole range of affordable routes into eight-cylinder nirvana, from Aston Martin to Westfield

Ernie's soul survivor • This sleek, storied Siata coupé pays homage to more audacious sporting times, and the commitment and passion of a life cut short

Smooth operators • The XJ had the UK’s luxury saloon market sewn up before the Germans got a foothold, but Peugeot’s take on the barge, the 604, ran Coventry closer than you might think

Muscle beach • Turning a Ferrari 365GTC/4 into a steroid-injected dune buggy was the unlikely task entrusted to coachbuilder Willy Felber

THE OTHER FELBER FERRARIS

“Being Pentti’s teammate wasn’t easy: it didn't sit well if I was faster” • Chris Sclater’s star shone brightly on the rally scene in the 1960s and ’70s, but it was tenacity as much as talent that helped forge his success

ONE FOR THE ROAD • This one-off – and innovative – Emeryson sports car offers a seductive taste of what it’s like to drive a historic Formula Two racer on the public highway

Brains & BREEDING • The advanced Bristol 405 and Lancia Aurelia B10 catered for discerning buyers, but a focus on the finer things would hasten their makers’ demise

HONOURING A LOST LEGEND • An expanded museum paying fitting homage to one of motorsport’s most revered talents

Viva las Vivas • Six decades on, four generations unite to chart the life cycle of Vauxhall’s long-serving compact family favourite

Seen and not herd • In a...