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 • With summer sizzling along like sausages on a BBQ, we turn our spotlight on the beach culture-infused world of VW, and Jaguar’s Eighties return to Le Mans glory

‘The steering, the pedals, that surge! It all makes sense now’ • Lotus lover Sam Hunt adores his Series 1 Elise, but would he like the range-topping Esprit V8 more? With the keys to one of the last Hethel wedges ever made, he’s about to find out

Silver Shadow prices go scatty • In a softening market there are good examples to be had at sensible prices

Generational shift creating Jaguar Mk2 3.8 bargains

Original or restored Rover P6 V8 Estate?

ASK QUENTIN

Market indicators It’s all about coupés and their three-door hatchback spiritual successors this month

Summer glut • Plenty of big numbers at ACA sale

PRICE GUIDE MOVERS

Scimitars start to cut the mustard

Eighties 911s rising as dreams become reality

American Dream

Maverick Mercedes • Disowned by its creators, this unique Merc seeks an understanding new owner

Movie stardust boosts values most • Hagerty’s Power List shows Hollywood adds huge value

Historics marks 60th sale

IN THE TRADE

London Pride • Honourable Artillery Company hosts long-lost masterpieces at London Concours

Coventry comes roaring back • Coventry MotoFest returns at full strength after years of cancellations

July-October event highlights

Barn-collapse Ferrari bonanza • ‘Lost & Found’ diorama celebrates the ultimate Ferrari barn-find collection

Next Month • The October issue marks 50 years of Classic Cars magazine

GT40 design flaw?

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QUENTIN WILLSON • Buy a classic in the wrong colour and you might end up stuck with it; go bold, go period – and even grey might turn out to be a winner when you sell

ALEX RILEY • I find myself longing for the cars we missed out on in Britain, those mythical foreign models that never came here or weren’t available in right-hand drive

Power to the people • Classic Volkswagens are hot property, and the pull of its ownership cult is stronger than ever. We took six Wolfsburg icons to the beach to get to the core of their appeal and find out how to buy your way into coolness

Luft Cult • Air-cooled VWs came in a variety of forms but all have one thing in common: mass appeal. So how did that evolve into an entire culture?

The Silken Touch • Thirty-five years after this very XJR-9 scored Jaguar’s first Le Mans win since the D-type days, we relive the memories – then drive it on track

LIFE STORY OF A Mercedes 230 ‘Fintail’ • Bought new by a Ministry of Defence official, this Fintail has spent the decades since in single family ownership criss-crossing Europe

‘It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle’ • Restoring a rotten classic is tough enough, but this Bedford CA2 needed everything addressing – including the kitchen sink. So where better to send it than back to Dormobile itself, where it was built 60 years earlier?

Seven steps to buying a Triumph Spitfire

Morris Minor Workshop

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