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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Welcome

Classic & Sports Car • MARCH 2023 • VOLUME 41, NO 12

KIDS SCRAMBLE TO BICESTER • In the hundreds of classic cars converging on Bicester Heritage in January, record numbers of young enthusiasts set the tone for the hobby and industry alike

THE C&SC TEAM’S SCRAMBLE FAVOURITES

A CLASSIC START TO THE YEAR

Record visitors for InterClassics

AUSTIN SEVEN WINDFALL

Join us at the Le Mans Classic!

Miami’s motorcade returns

OBITUARY

Federation update

SNOWY FUN IN THE HILLS

Paddock Profile

Plum delivers just desserts

SEEKING ACECA’S RALLY HISTORY

UNUSUAL TICKFORD MG TB UNEARTHED

RELIANT REGENT RARITY RESCUED

TALBOT’S WORLD TOUR

CAREWORN KAISER SEEKS NEW KEEPER

BARN-FIND T700 BACK ON THE GO

PICKING UP THE SUNBEAM PIECES

Look familiar? • Want to track down a lost love or looking for history on your current classic? Send details and pictures to the p9 address or email requests to alastair.clements@haymarket.com

TERRY ROSS • Capturing speeding narratives in colourful clay models with innovative detailing makes for exciting sculptures

THE AUTOMOTIVE ALCHEMIST

From Bond to Bentley and back

Ferrari 1960-1965

Hot Rod magazine

The Legend of American Motors

The archaeological automobile

Austin-Healey Sprite: the complete story

Model of the month

Pick of the month

Tested this month

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Mick WALSH

Simon TAYLOR

Martin BUCKLEY

Letter of the month

Pedant of the month

Comments & clarifications

V10 SPECIAL! • Roadgoing bargains, a hypercar icon and memories of a golden era in F1

Chic and cheerful • Proving that great sports cars, young and old, can be had for less than the cost of a new Renault Clio

MG TD vs MORGAN PLUS 4

MGC vs TRIUMPH TR4A

LANCIA BETA MONTE-CARLO vs PORSCHE 914

MERCEDES-BENZ 500SL vs CHEVROLET CORVETTE C4

TVR CHIMAERA 450 vs PORSCHE BOXSTER S

HONDA S2000 vs VAUXHALL VX220 TURBO

BODY & SOUL • Henri Chapron’s sympathetic adaptations of the Citroën DS improved on an already revered formula that would crown the model’s legacy

THE OTHER CHAPRON DSS

Ambition fulfilled • Swapping the F1 pundit’s chair for the hot seat of a Toyota Corolla AE86 to tackle the jewel of the southern hemisphere

Back-seat drivers • Ferrari’s front-engined V12 four-seaters sold well despite being derided by purists. Today, they remain great to drive, if costly to own…

LUXURY COMPACTS • Small usually means cheap, but occasionally car makers have splashed the cash on their most diminutive models

A question of aspiration • Getting ahead with 1980s verve in the turbocharged Renault Fuego, V6 Ford Capri and supercharged twin-cam Lancia HPE

Eastern promise, Bristol fashion • A road trip by Bristol to Turkey and back began well, but by the halfway point became a test of mechanical know-how — if not marriage vows

CAT from the CRADLE • An early ‘pre-L’ Pantera demonstrates a visceral yet delicate nature at odds with the De Tomaso’s unfriendly reputation

THE LIFE CYCLE OF A PANTHER

“I didn’t like damaging cars because I...