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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GREATEST GARDEN PARTY RETURNS • The Duke of Richmond & Gordon welcomed the great and the good of the motoring world back to his front lawn for a Festival of Speed to remember
THE C&SC TEAM’S GOODWOOD FAVOURITES
SHELSLEY TURNS ALL NOSTALGIC
London Classic’s model celebrations
’VETTES FOR NATIONALS
EXCLUSIVE CONCOURS OF ELEGANCE TICKET OFFER
AMELIA ACQUIRED
FUTURE WRITERS SOUGHT
EARLIEST ASTON LAUDED
HATCHES SCRAMBLED
Staffs is full of eastern promise
RAZOREDGE RETURNS
NO CHANGE FOR CAR TAX
AUSTIN’S OFFICE SHUFFLE
YOU AND YOUR GARAGE
BROADPEAK MEETS BEGIN
HOT-ROD RENDEZVOUS
Jag’s joint birthday bash
Obituary
Federation update
OLD-SCHOOL DUELS AT CASTLE COMBE MEETING
Teams delight in Yorkshire double
EUROPEANS ON TOP AT THE GLEN
IMP COMES KNOCKING
Paddock profile • ERNIE & KAREN GRAHAM
MORE FOR WEST YORKS
AUDI WINS IN HUNGARY
FASA ALPINES RESURFACE IN SPAIN
V12 wonder wedge set for an ’80s revival
FAR-FLUNG FRENCH TOURER RESCUED
Aussie ute is past its best
Soggy Hethel middie is born again
RARE LANCIA WAKES FROM HALF-CENTURY SLUMBER
Look familiar?
HANS SURES • A bit of Californian drawing restoked the fire for this graphic designer
Book of the month
Model of the month
Product of the month
Tested this month
Mick WALSH • “The teacher would ask what we’d done at the weekend, and classmates would talk about hiking. I’d say Le Mans or Monza”
Simon TAYLOR • ‘Davenport liked his cars to be scruffy, unpainted and oily, and wore an old brown smock tied around his waist with baler twine’
Martin BUCKLEY • ‘A bucolic gent in overalls held forth to a variety of apparent subordinates, who I later understood were actually customers’
Letter of the month
Pedant of the month
Comments & clarif ications
DREAM DRIVES ON YOUR DOORSTEP • You don’t have to leave the British Isles to enjoy our favourite driving routes, kicking off with the spectacular North Coast 500
THAT RIVIERA TOUCH • With the Dino and 2300S, everyman marque Fiat set out to prove that Alfa and Lancia didn’t have the monopoly on coupé glamour
FIAT DINO 2000 COUPÉ
FIAT 2300S COUPÉ
A LONG INDIAN SUMMER • Inspired by the story of the maharaja in Mayfair, one couple recalls embarking on an 8000-mile epic adventure across India behind the wheel of their trusty Rolls-Royce
TWO INTO FOUR MUST GO • Top of the rally world just a year apart, but on the road there’s a world of difference between the Audi quattro and Talbot Sunbeam Lotus
TALBOT SUNBEAM LOTUS
AUDI UR-QUATTRO
SHADOW FACTORIES • Wartime Spitfires, Mosquitos, tanks, Merlin engines… and today’s classic cars? Yes, there is a connection
OLD DOGS, NEW QUICKS • The millennium ushered in a new era for two of Britain’s old stagers, Jensen and Morgan, but the revival wasn’t quite as advertised
MORGAN AERO 8
JENSEN S-V8
MEET THE NEW BOSS • Dominant in 1930s trials with founder Sydney behind the wheel, Allard’s ‘Tailwagger II’ was one of...