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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Sir Stirling Moss 1929-2020 • Remembering Britain’s most famous Grand Prix star and one of the greatest of all, who could win in anything with four wheels
A CAREER IN PICTURES • Celebrating one of the all-time greats
OWNERS RAIL AGAINST RECREATIONS
MOT EXTENSIONS AMID CV19
Community unites to benefit key workers
CLASSIFIEDS SET FREE
EVENT CALENDAR SHUFFLES
LOST BEFORE HIS TIME
CLASSIC CAR HEROES
VW SOLD FOR FOUNDATION
FUTURE BRIGHT FOR J40s
Fix-It Weekend is a social success
Obituary
Tour guides turn virtual
Federation update
FALSE-STARTING F1 • Frustrated by the wait for Formula One’s first flag to drop? Believe it or not, we’ve been here before…
La Sarthe in September • It takes a lot to move the 24 Hours of Le Mans from its mid-June date – but 2020 is not the first time
FRENCH COLLECTION UNEARTHED
Eagle-eyed buyer bags Allemano Abarth 850
RAY OF LIGHT FOR SUNSHINE
Well-travelled MkVI finally comes home
HIDDEN SL RETRIEVED
Look familiar?
BOOKS
Book of the month
Model of the month
GARAGE GEAR
Tested this month
Mick WALSH • ‘A speed event around the floors and the roof launched the multi-storey project – the 15 entrants included GP Bugattis’
Simon TAYLOR • ‘A lot of readers suffer from what psychiatrists call publicatus retentus syndrome: the inability to discard old magazines’
Martin BUCKLEY • ‘On the M6 and M5 run there was a chance of catching a glimpse of something exotic hoofing it up the outside lane’
LETTERS
Letter of the month
Pedant of the month
Comments & clarifications
ADVANTAGE ASTON • When the Vantage moved from an engine spec to a model in its own right, it realised the potential of the V8 as Britain’s answer to the Latin supercar
Andy Palmer ASTON MARTIN V8 VANTAGE
ASTON MARTIN V8 VANTAGE
WHAT’S IN A NAME? • The original V8 Vantage is the flag-bearer, but the Vantage tag has now been applied to more than a third of all Aston Martins. Here are the highlights
SOUL SURVIVOR • This D23 is the last-remaining reminder of Lancia’s first entry into the international elite of sports car racing
TAXI CABS • Celebrating the cars that get us where we need to go, from Mexico City to Mumbai, London to New York
‘These cars were a mission statement: change was coming, and coming soon’ • How Ford and Ghia’s Probe concepts beckoned the future, but almost became lost to the past
CONTINENTAL SHIFT • Lincoln’s ‘clap-door’ masterpiece represented a sea change from the fins and excess of the ’50s. Nowhere does it feel more at home than the mid-century modern mecca of Palm Springs
LINCOLN CONTINENTAL
EVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET • As Lincoln and Cadillac fans converge in California, C&SC meets the men and women behind the wheel
GLAMOUR FOR & TRACK ROAD • From wooing a movie-star bride to the Grand Prix podium, this fabulous Corsica-bodied Bugatti Type 57S has enjoyed an eventful career
THOMAS MATHIESON: A PASSION FOR RACING
ESTATES OF MIND • Unlikely bedfellows, in-house rivals… market-defining...