Classic & Sports Car

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Classic & Sports Car • MARCH 2025 • VOLUME 43, NO 12

NEW BLOOD TO LIGHT UP HISTORICS • Recent tweaks to the structure of international historic competition are good news for fans of variety

MAASTRICHT CROWD FAVOURITES RETURN

Join the Our classics fleet at the Le Mans Classic

New Year fun hit by storms

Trident’s global birthday bash

Finalists revealed in search for the best of 2024

ETTORE’S LEGACY REVISITED

Rally heroes to tackle Shelsley hillclimb

Dreaming of a white Scramble

OBITUARY

Federation update

CLASSICS HIT THE SLOPES

Toyota retakes Dakar crown

Close competition for popular Pudding

Kiwis tussle at Historic GP

Paddock profile

AMC PONY CAR’S REBUILD BEGINS

BRITISH-BUILT RARITY STARTS NEW JOURNEY

WELL-USED FROGEYE FINDS A NEW HOME

G15 IS RIPE FOR REVIVAL

BARN-FIND PAIR REHOMED

RARE BUCKLER SET TO LIVE ON

AN OLDSMOBILE’S TALE

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ERNEST MONTAUT • Art Nouveau artist and printmaker who captured the early age of motorsport and aviation

Book of the month

Model of the month

Pick of the month

Tested this month

Mick WALSH • ‘The appreciation of original coachbuilt cars resulted in heartening preservation and the remaking of lost bodies’

Simon TAYLOR • ‘He freewheeled to a house and interrupted an astonished family’s Christmas celebrations to use their phone’

Martin BUCKLEY • ‘To modern eyes a black limo is too sinister for a wedding car, unless you are a Munster marrying into the Addams family’

Letter of the month

Pedant of the month

IN THE APRIL ISSUE*

Charge of the light brigade • The Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 Club Sport’s ‘less is more’ philosophy resulted in a line of revered CS models, led by the 968 and 993

TRANSAXLES WITH ATWIST • Stuttgart’s steeds fulfil a plethora of needs, but these front-engined Porsches are the epitome of niche

Warts and all • This ex-John Surtees Ferrari 330GT’s highly original patina has remained through various owners, and its current custodian plans to keep it that way

SOME LIKE IT HOT • The United Arab Emirates has been hosting a Middle Eastern take on an Italian classic since 2022, and the event is developing a character all of its own

ANGLES OF DESTINY • The wedge-shaped ADO71 could have restored British Leyland’s fortunes, but bad timing and an image problem conspired against it

‘The mighty motor punches this legendary car through the air’ • This magnificent Bentley 8 Litre spent much of its life being honed for speed-record success, and its performance is still remarkable today

MADE TO MAKE YOUR MOUTH • An ‘Opal Fruit green’ Ford Capri II sparked a Liverpudlian schoolboy’s fantasy that would one day become reality

So you want to be a RALLY DRIVER? • If so, the Historic Rally Car Register’s Clubmans events are a great place to start. C&SC has partnered with the series for 2025, so let’s meet the runners and riders

HIRED MUSCLE • Vauxhall’s rebadging of an Australian V8 coupé was an ingenious corporate coup that also inspired its fiery VXR performance sub-brand

GRANDEUR OUT OF A CRISIS • The Mercury Monarch and...