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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BENTLEY IS KING OF MONTEREY • Huge crowds marked the British stalwart’s 100th anniversary in distinctly Californian style

BUCKLEY’S CHOICE

LOST BENTLEY CORNICHE REBORN

VICTORY FOR RARE MARINA

Multi-million misfire

Clubs brighten grey Silverstone

READERS’ GRIFFIN DAY

Exclusive cats hit the track

TEN MILLION MINIS

LE MANS-WINNING REP

A GREAT NORTH RUN

HEROES REUNITED

Entries invited for Club Awards

VSCC CAR PARK STARS

Rhineland garden party

DUBS BY THE SEA

TOWNS SET GROWS

DON’T MISS THE DEADLINE!

MOODY BLUES BENTLEY

New Vauxhall museum coming

Uncommon classics shine

PROBE STARS AT EXHIBITION

Federation update

CLASSIC DIARY • All the shows, festivals, tours, meets and races that matter

Pick of the month September

SILVERSTONE SERVES UP A CLASSIC

WINNERS

Doubles all round at Croft festival

Puy’s bumper vintage entry

Paddock profile TIM CAIRNS

STARLET TWINKLES ON GRAVEL

Tricky trialling in Hertfordshire

Snail racing round the clock

TOP ACTION AT ASSEN

DIARIES AT THE READY

AN ALL-ROUND TRIUMPH

ATTWOOD’S HSCC ROLE

AUSTRIAN HAT-TRICK

ONE CAREFUL OWNER… SINCE 1928

French Imp returns to Blighty

Unique Ford hits the road

ANGULAR BODY HIDES LOST ACE

Look familiar?

Rusty jewels of the eastern bloc unearthed

Nose job makes a prince of a Frogeye

SIX IS SUPER ONCE AGAIN

Special-bodied MG bound for renovation

Lost Turner tracked down

Saab fan finds Swede dream machine

Book of the month

Model of the month

GARAGE GEAR

Tested this month

Mick WALSH

Simon TAYLOR

Martin BUCKLEY

Letter of the month

Remembering an overlooked lynchpin of Aston’s success

Pedant of the month • Pedant of the month wins a C&SC baseball cap. Send your observations to alastair.clements@haymarket.com

Comments & clarif ications

THE GREAT PRETENDER • Across 30 years, the Mazda MX-5 has eclipsed the Brits that inspired it to become the world’s favourite sports car

ON YOUR MARKS…

MAZDA MX-5 1.6

ROADSTER RUNNER • Every enthusiast has their favourite MX-5 – Andrea Mancini has 45 and counting. So we had to go to Italy to try them out

ON THE ROAD AGAIN • The Grand Prix Bugatti Type 59 makes a sensational road car, and chassis 59121 is back on the street after a superb rebuild

REUNION ON THE 18TH GREEN

ONE BIG FAMILY • It was billed ‘Rally of the century’ and fêted 100 years of France’s favourite marque. C&SC joined the three-day party at Citroën’s famous La Ferté-Vidame test site

NO HALF MEASURES • A century ago, dynamic visionary André Citroën shook up the French motor industry with his extravagant business methods

DOUBLE CHEVRON DELIGHTS • Everyone should experience the joys of Citroën ownership at some point. Here’s how members of the C&SC team would spend an imaginary wad of €500 notes…

SCALPING SPEEDSTERS • The other Austrian that took the Volkswagen Beetle and formed a pretty little roadster: the Denzel

WD DENZEL 1300

THE UNKNOWN ‘MR MONACO’...