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 barn find restoration a challenge beyond the resources of most mere mortals, at least we can live out the fantasy vicariously while experts show us how

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‘It’s a potent little thing!’ • Wild insurance premiums put paid to Scotsman Brian Letham’s Renault 5GTTurbo dream in period. Today we make it come true

BRIAN LETHAM’S CAR CV

Continental S2s trickling down • Could shifting buyer tastes be responsible for softening prices of these big Bentleys?

DB7 Vantage Volantes heading for bargain territory

Jensen CV-8 sales are bucking the market trend

ASK QUENTIN

Go resto-mod • Up and down time at Historics sale

Citroën CX – no longer just a cult classic

PRICE GUIDE MOVERS

Dare you dream of a Maserati 3500GT?

Lusso in London

The one and only • Unique DB4 restored by Aston Martin Works to be offered by RM in London

Mansell memorabilia at RM Sotheby’s

IN THE TRADE

Are auction sellers in denial?

Garagistes at Goodwood • Groundbreaking Lotuses and Coopers take on Ferrari at the Goodwood Revival

Pearls at Hampton Court • Fritz Burkhard’s Pearl Collection takes starring role at the Concours of Elegance

October-December highlights • NEC Classic Motor Show one of several epics that brings 2023 to a satisfying close

Mountain bus reverts to Type

THE PROFESSIONALS

Classic Cars mag at 50

QUENTIN WILLSON • Recent auction sales have been peppered with good examples of cars selling cheaper than expected. Welcome back to a world of classic car affordability

ALEX RILEY • I’ve been losing myself in re-runs of TV shows from my youth, and if anyone is thinking of reprising Return of The Saint, I’m ready and waiting for the role

‘The paint was too thick. Then we found evidence of impacts beneath’ • This 1969 Miura S featured in our Barn Finds pages in December 2019 when it emerged from a lean-to garage in the Black Forest. Preservation was the aim – but would it be possible for this languishing Lamborghini?

12-cylinder sorcery • Tuning twelve carburettor throats and setting up a freshly rebuilt Lamborghini V12 seems like a black art. We get a first-hand look at sorcerer Iain Tyrrell’s approach

BUILT IN JAPAN, Made in Britain • 30 years ago, the world got its first glimpse of a new force in world rallying. Today, we hail one of the greatest classics of the Nineties with a flat-out drive in an early Subaru Impreza WRX STi through Welsh rally country

‘Colin did his best to destroy it’ • David Lapworth, Alan McGuinness and Keith Morton were key members of the team that unleashed the Impreza on the world’s rally stages. We reunite them at Prodrive’s HQ to discuss the 555 team, the Group A Impreza, and Colin McRae

EXCESS & MORE • Industrialist’s plaything, footballer’s wife’s daily driver and subject of a community-wide quest for survival, this Jensen FF has seen it all

THE LIFE STORY OF A Morgan 4/4 • Ordered in 1979 and completed in 1991, this 4/4 has only had one owner – but...