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.

THE BIG PICTURE

Welcome

Classic & Sports Car • NOVEMBER 2023 • VOLUME 42, NO 8

AN EVENTFUL ANNIVERSARY • As Goodwood hosted a very special Revival, even the weather couldn’t dampen spirits

C&SC’S GOODWOOD FAVOURITES

GOODWOOD’S SLOWEST LAP

REVIVAL RACE WINNERS

ENDURING ELEGANCE AT HAMPTON COURT

WACKY LINCOLN RARITY STARS ON C&SC TOUR

Bamford Bugatti pips Ferrari to Blenheim honours

BEST OF SHOW

New talks, old parts at Beaulieu

Portugal’s classic convention

Alpina rules at Dorking day

German heroes head to the mountains of St Moritz

OBITUARY

Federation update

DICES LIFT BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL

Dix Mille Tours historic extravaganza descends on Paul Ricard

Robertsons secure HERO win

Escort takes ‘Woody’ victory

Paddock profile

AN UNUSUAL AC’S RETURN TO FORM

LANCIA BACK ON THE ROAD

RETIRED MINI VAN TO WORK ONCE MORE

SAD A70 IS BARN AGAIN

BIN-LORRY LANDIE SET FOR NEW LEASE OF LIFE

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

INDIRA FLACK • Recording motorsport legends in portrait photographs has become the basis of an exhibition and book

THE AMAZING DENZEL SPORTS CAR

VW Golf MkI-IV

50 years with Ferraris

Citroën DS Décapotable

Colin Chapman: The Biography

Porsche 75th anniversary

SS Jaguar 100

Model of the month

Pick of the month

Tested this month

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

TWIN-CAM SHOOTOUT • Can Lotus magic turn the Mk2 Ford Cortina into an Alfa GTV beater?

THE LAST TEMPTATION • This, the final Ferrari 500 Superfast marks the end of a line of GTs conceived for the mega-rich, not just the merely wealthy

THE OTHER RHD 500 SUPERFASTS

AMERICAN BEAUTY • For eight generations and 70 years, the Chevy Corvette has been the backbone of the US sports car industry. As it turns 60, the C2 remains the most desirable of all

To be continued… • After the fabulous C2, the best of the rest convene from seven decades of America’s original sports car dynasty

C1

C3

C4

C5+C6

C7

2024 SEASON

C8

FORTUNE 500 • It was less famous than the Indy and Daytona 500s, shorter-lived than the Brooklands 500, but memories of the BOAC 500 live long

Brighton belles • This pair of pioneer machines found fame in the 1953 caper Genevieve, a film that helped give old-car ownership global appeal

Fire in the hole • The Huayra Pronello Ford combined advanced aerodynamic ideas with brutal V8 power for a long-lost Argentinian sports-prototype series

SHOCK THERAPY • Testing an electric Fiat 500, and the idea of EV-converted classics, with a drive across the capital

Locked & loaded • Land-Rover’s SAS prototype and Minerva’s Blindé reconnaisance vehicle were built to lend agility and versatility to Europe’s special forces

DOWN MEMORY LANE • As...