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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Classic & Sports Car

Maastricht’s tribute to the bygone greats • The 27th InterClassics show in the Dutch university city highlighted lost marques

MICK WALSH’S MAASTRICHT STAR CARS

OWNERS OPEN 2020 IN UNISON

Series One re-conquers the world

Capacity Scramble success

ENZO’S LE MANS STARS

UNEXCEPTIONALLY NEW

ESCORT IS BOXING DAY BEST

GREATS GO TO GAYDON

NSW’S BIG MINI MEETING

Selling the crown jewels in the capital

Obituaries

Federation update

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

Pick of the month February

BIG BENZ WINS IN AUSTRIA

TRIAL TRIO SHARES WIN

Testing times in Surrey

Paddock profile • MIGUEL MORAIS DO VALLE

TIN-TOPS DO BATTLE

HSCC REMEMBERS RUSSELL

VOLKSWAGEN RARITY RESURFACES

Stalled Sunbeam rebuild back on

A RACING RARITY UP FOR GRABS

Look familiar? • Want to track down a lost love or looking for history on your current classic? Send details and pictures to the p10 address or email your requests to alastair.clements@haymarket.com

Slumbering sports car is a unique prototype

MkVI seeks its identity

HORNET’S LONG-AWAITED REBUILD BEGINS

‘Plaidside’ Willys-Knight rides out of the dark

READER FIND OF THE MONTH • Send in a 200-word story plus a selection of photographs of your discoveries to the usual C&SC address or email alastair.clements@haymarket.com and you could win £100

MICHAEL LEES • This former RAF pilot has swapped the joystick for a paintbrush

Book of the month

Model of the month

GARAGE GEAR

Tested this month

Mick WALSH • ‘Fans adored Birkin’s theatrical style, pithily described as “an upmarket Mansell of his day” by historian Doug Nye’

Simon TAYLOR • ‘At a clocked 165mph The Old Fella went into a massive spin, continuing backwards in blinding rooster-tails of salt’

Martin BUCKLEY • ‘Cochran had a Cadillac at home and sang wistfully of ’59 Fords… ironic that he met his end in a slightly crap British version’

Letter of the month

Pedant of the month

Comments & clarif ications

NISSAN’S NEW BROOM • The Datsun 240Z swept all aside when it burst on to the affordable sports car scene in 1969. Half a century later, it’s doing it again in the classic world

DATSUN 240Z

Specialist’s view DUNCAN PEARCEY, THE Z FARM

THE RISING SUN LANDS • It’s almost unthinkable today, but in the early ’60s Japanese machinery was all but absent from British roads. Then these pioneers came along…

DAIHATSU COMPAGNO 800

TOYOTA CORONA (T40)

HONDA S800

DATSUN 1000 SUNNY (B10)

COLT LANCER 1200 (A70)

SUZUKI SC100 GX

REFINED TO PERFECTION • Sharing the seat of sports car legends and driving one of Enzo Ferrari’s greatest racers: the 1960 Le Mans-winning Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa

WAY BACK WHEN • Retracing Ferrari’s history at La Sarthe, a place once ruled by Enzo’s men

FROM OLDS TO NEW • When you need to make a distinctive steed for a fictional TV detective, who do you turn to but ‘King of Kustomizers’ George Barris?

BUCKLEY’S FORGOTTEN PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS

BUILDING THE BEST • WO Bentley and Frank Feeley helped Alan Good to...