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THE BIG PICTURE
Welcome
Classic & Sports Car • MARCH 2024 • VOLUME 42, NO 12
CLEANING UP CLASSIC FUELS • Biofuels and e-fuels could mean a greener future for historic cars, but the change won’t happen overnight
CLASSIC WELCOME FOR 2024
Cover stars return to Oxfordshire
Mullin Automotive Museum set to shut
Alpine tops Boxing Day meet
Performance Fords roar into Maastricht
Have you seen these Minis?
NICK BALDWIN 1945-2024
Federation update
AMAZONS TOP AUSTRIAN ADVENTURE
Taupo hosts classic field for Tasman Revival
Plum Pudding presents a challenge
Paddock profile
UNEARTHED ELAN IS LOST MOCK-UP
A LONG-LOVED PEERLESS
MYSTERY GIULIA SPRINT HEADS TO A NEW HOME
UNUSUAL ALLARD’S APT NEW OWNER
ORIGINAL AUSTIN RESCUED
ROADSTER TO BE RESTORED
REMARKABLE MORRIS EMERGES
Look familiar? • Want to track down a lost love or looking for history on your current classic? Send details and pictures to the p7 address or email requests to alastair.clements@haymarket.com
JOHN PARKIN • The Yorkshire-born fine artist inspired by classic speed kings and space travel
SPEED QUEENS
Is there much more of this?
An Austin Anthology III
Bentley Speed 8
Inside the Duesenberg SSJ
Hitler’s Motorcars
Raymond Henri Dietrich
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
PORSCHE TURBOS • 50 years of an icon, with star racers and all the air-cooled 911 road cars
POWER to the PEOPLE • The early 1990s was a golden era for British V8 sports cars. TVR, Marcos and MG all took the Rover-powered route and represent great value today
V8 BANGS FOR YOUR BUCK • There’s a whole range of affordable routes into eight-cylinder nirvana, from Aston Martin to Westfield
Ernie's soul survivor • This sleek, storied Siata coupé pays homage to more audacious sporting times, and the commitment and passion of a life cut short
Smooth operators • The XJ had the UK’s luxury saloon market sewn up before the Germans got a foothold, but Peugeot’s take on the barge, the 604, ran Coventry closer than you might think
Muscle beach • Turning a Ferrari 365GTC/4 into a steroid-injected dune buggy was the unlikely task entrusted to coachbuilder Willy Felber
THE OTHER FELBER FERRARIS
“Being Pentti’s teammate wasn’t easy: it didn't sit well if I was faster” • Chris Sclater’s star shone brightly on the rally scene in the 1960s and ’70s, but it was tenacity as much as talent that helped forge his success
ONE FOR THE ROAD • This one-off – and innovative – Emeryson sports car offers a seductive taste of what it’s like to drive a historic Formula Two racer on the public highway
Brains & BREEDING • The advanced Bristol 405 and Lancia Aurelia B10 catered for discerning buyers, but a focus on the finer things would hasten their makers’ demise
HONOURING A LOST LEGEND • An expanded museum paying fitting homage to one of motorsport’s most revered talents
Viva las Vivas • Six decades on, four generations unite to chart the life cycle of Vauxhall’s long-serving compact family favourite
Seen and not herd • In a...