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CROWDS REVEL IN GOODWOOD RETURN • After a year’s hiatus, race fans were delighted to be back in West Sussex for the Revival’s thrills and theatre
THE C&SC TEAM’S REVIVAL FAVOURITES
REVIVAL RACE WINNERS
CONCOURS WIN IS BLACK AND WHITE FOR VOISIN
HAMPTON WINNERS
Recognise your 2021 club heroes
MIDLANDS MICROCARS
DUTCH PORTFOLIO EXPANDS
Privé glamour lights up Blenheim
JUMBLE DRUMS BEAT AGAIN
HAIL TO THE CHIEF
PEDAL CAR MEMORIES
PROVING THE PASSION
Italian jewels gather in St Moritz
CHARITY’S NEW HOPE
A CENTURY OF GLAMOUR
HUB’S ITALIAN SQUADRON
GRIFFIN GREATS AT GAYDON
THORESBY MORRIS MANIA
LIFE BEGINS DOWN UNDER
Obituaries
Federation update
IT’S DOUBLES ALL ROUND AS WATTS TAKES THE GOLD
Slim margin for north Wales winners
NEAVES NABS BCV8 CROWN
VINTAGEANTS TOP LOTON
Paddock profile JAMES COLBURN
QUATTRO SIZZLES IN SPAIN
VSCC WIDENS ELIGIBILITY
MIDGET WITH A BIG HISTORY
Pre-war Pug on the capital’s streets
STRANDED MAYFLOWER
RARE ROAD-RACER FOUND
Antipodean Jaguar is now bound for the UK
GI’S FAVOURITE EMERGES
TRIALS SPECIAL TO RETURN
Tornado fan acquires a new Talisman
MORRIS AWAKES AFTER SIX DECADES OF SLUMBER
Look familiar?
ART FITZPATRICK & VAN KAUFMAN • Iconic American automotive advertising art is celebrated in a lavish new book
Book of the month
Model of the month
Product of the month
Tested this month
Mick WALSH • “After Surtees and Moss, Robert Brooks was the most competitive man I have ever known but his loyalty shone through”
Simon TAYLOR • ‘It’s more than a car: it’s a motor-sporting Mona Lisa. So henceforth it will live in silent state in the Mercedes museum’
Martin BUCKLEY • “We had a different test car every week, and Dad would often drive up to Bourne to have tea with Raymond Mays”
LETTERS
The greatest car show that nobody has ever heard of?
Pedant of the month • Pedant of the month wins a C&SC baseball cap. Send your observations to alastair. clements@haymarket.com
Comments & clarifications
THE LAST LOTUS THAT BLOSSOMED • Celebrating the brilliant Elise, as it turns 25 and is put out to pasture after a life well lived
INSIDE LINE FROM THE MAN ON THE TRACK
LOTUS ELISE S1 1.8i
LOTUS ELISE S2 SC
DOUBLE VISION • At the heart of the young, enthusiastic team that created the Lotus Elise were designer Julian Thomson and engineer Richard Rackham, whose close friendship and shared passion led to a new sports car benchmark
THE GREEN HORNET • Tesla, the behemoth of future mobility, began with an acorn planted in Norfolk – now the first true electric classic of the modern era
TESLA ROADSTER SPORT
ELISES BY ANOTHER NAME
SUNBEAM, SEGRAVE & THE SANDS • The Twin Cam accompaniment to Major Segrave’s Sunbeam 1000hp Land Speed Record challenger is revelling in being restored to its former glory
SOMETHING SPECIAL • The dire lack of affordable sports cars 70 years ago gave birth to a whole new species of...