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 • APRIL 2023 • VOLUME 42, NO 1

24-HOUR PARTY PEOPLE HIT PARIS • Endurance racers were honoured as Rétromobile returned, but high-end dealers provided the stars

C&SC’S RÉTROMOBILE FAVOURITES

FERRARIS STORM INTO PALM BEACH

WELLINGTONIANS LOOK NORTH

Annual hot rod reunion showcases V8 variety

Legends return to the hills of Worcestershire

AURORA HEADS HOME

BULLS RUN TO BOLOGNA

BRITISH DAY OF THE DEAD

RACERS SCRAMBLE TO OXON

Rare Talbot-Lago lands Arizona crown

Classics go big in Bremen

Lambos hit the capital

RECORD-BREAKING BMH

SUSSEX CELEBRATIONS

CLUBBERS HIT A CENTURY

MAESTRO BIRTHDAY BASH

JEAN-PIERRE JABOUILLE 1942-2023

OBITUARIES

Federation update

RALLYING INAWINTER WONDERLAND

Fiats keep cool in the Italian north

Brooklands testing for the New Year

Paddock profile

TRAPPED INDY FREE AT LAST

NEW HOME NEEDED FOR MG TRIO

ONE-OWNER A40 FINALLY MOVES ON

RARE DROP-TOP POPS UP

ROTTING POCKET-SIZED ROADSTER RESCUED

READYING A ROYAL CROSSLEY

RESTORED 2CV IS QUITE SPÉCIAL

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

PETER HELCK • The legendary American illustrator whose passion for early racing inspired a remarkable book in 1961

Book of the month

A Life by the Poole

Charles Montier

Range Rover

Jim Clark en France

Visions in Design

The complete register of Jaguar C-types, D-types & Lightweight E-types

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 • Pedant of the month wins a C&SC baseball cap. Send your observations to alastair.clements@haymarket.com

Comments & clarifications

LIONS THAT ROAR • Peugeot’s glorious lightweight Rallye family: 106, 205 and 306

THE WHOLE 10 YARDS • The days of exotic multi-cylinder engines are numbered. Porsche, Dodge and Lamborghini V10s gather to remind us what we’ll be missing

Primal SCREAMERS • Paying tribute to the naturally aspirated V10, soundtrack to F1’s greatest modern era and one of the finest units the sport has produced

SURTEES’ SECRET BMW • Driving a rare BMW 503 Cabriolet, discreetly improved by a Grand Prix legend over 25 years of ownership

The best car in the world? • Stylish, solid, fast, refined, safe and practical, the first Mercedes-Benz S-Class was a true giant of the luxury genre

LUXURY OIL-BURNER: THE 300SD

Atlantic convoy • Classic cars of all ages add to the lush beauty of Madeira, the largest island in the remote Portuguese archipelago

Underdog day afternoon • Regularly – and unfairly – maligned in period, the Triumph TR7 and Jensen-Healey are overdue another look

Righting the wrongs of history • After a lifetime together, one owner decided it was time to banish the model’s inherent flaws to create his perfect Jensen-Healey

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