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

RÉTRO RARITIES LIGHT UP PARIS • After repeated pandemic-enforced delays, the brilliant Rétromobile opened its doors again at last in March

THE C&SC TEAM’S FAVOURITE CARS

SCREEN LEGENDS TAKE TO THE ICE

BUG JAM AT THE RACES

BIRMINGHAM BARN-FINDS

Clubs band together for Techno-Classica

New name, same high standards

Obituary

Federation update

SKYLINE FLIES HIGH AT THE POM

Rally icons get a grip

VOLVO’S VICTORY

A GAME OF SCRABBLE

Paddock profile

ROADSTER DUO IS IRRESISTIBLE

Allard’s reinvention as a coupé defies the vandals

GRIFFIN IN THE UNDERGROWTH

WOLSELEY WITH AN UNUSUAL FLAVOUR

Rare Gloria is a Triumph

EARLY TIN SNAIL SET FOR REVIVAL

Look familiar?

JEREMY DICKINSON • The restrictions of lockdown have led to a dramatic new series of paintings

Book of the month

Model of the month

Pick of the month

Tested this month

2 TOURS – 1 PARTY • There is nowhere quite like Provence and the French Riviera for style, glamour and timeless scenery, and we have created two tours that come together in Saint-Tropez for a spectacular end of summer weekend. You can take part in one of the tours or you can simply join the fun in Saint-Tropez.

Mick WALSH

Simon TAYLOR

Martin BUCKLEY

Letter of the month

Pedant of the month

Comments & clarif ications

You’ve never had it so good • The optimistic class of ’62 kicked off a golden era for British sporting greats with the Triumph Spitfire, MGB and Lotus Elan

TRIUMPH SPITFIRE 4

LOTUS ELAN 1600

MGB

EXTRA TIME • Our three sports car greats sped past their original lifespans, becoming classics in their own lifetimes and eventually inspiring a new generation

THE GREAT IMPRESSION • This Chrysler Imperial’s fine engineering and Bohman & Schwartz Deco style proved to be the perfect extravagance for Hollywood’s first black superstar

FITTED OUT FOR A KING • Ordered new by a Belgian monarch, this sole surviving Vignale-bodied Aston Martin DB2/4 is back on form after decades in the doldrums

CEWWF CUT If you were going to build a single-seater, you probably wouldn’t start with a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. But this unlikely warhorse recently won its first race

WOLFSBURG’S MIRACLE BUG • Faced with the dismantling of its vast plants and apartments, this German industrial city was transformed by two men and one very special car

IVAN HIRST • SENIOR RESIDENT OFFICER

WOLFSBURG WUNDERKINDER

HEINRICH NORDHOFF • GENERAL DIRECTOR

MY FARE LANDAULET • This fastidiously restored 1926 Citroën could be the last-surviving link to the working streets of Paris

ON A SOFTER NOTE • The 2200 Spider represented the ambitions of Abarth and patron Fiat to strike at the higher order of Italian motoring, but it was destined to remain a rarity

PROLES’ ROYCES • Emerging from the confused depths of BMC’s product-planning studios, the Wolseley Six and Austin 3 Litre offered more charm than success

THE HEAT IS ON FOR PORSCHE

MEET THE FLEET

THE ALFA ROMEO REVELATION

JASON LEN • A tireless restorer of British sports cars who also has a passion for motorcycles

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