Classic Cars

Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine. It defined the world of classic motoring 40 years ago and still does it today. Every issue is put together by our team of classic car experts and enthusiasts. Using the best expert writing and photography, the magazine helps you experience what it's like to drive, keep and restore the classic cars of days gone by. We bring the stories and people behind the cars to life - showing you how to buy, keep and enjoy your cars. Every issue of Classic Cars is packed with: - Road tests - Drive stories - Expert buying advice - News and events coverage Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine.

Welcome • Modern performance cars boast impressive abilities at the expense of excess bulk eroding tactile interaction with the road. Lightweight classics are the answer

‘Douglas Bader said his sounded like a Spitfire’ • Reader Howard Chick has a thing for handmade British cars, so we put him behind the wheel of an Alvis TD21

AMG SLs and Golfs trade places • Aston Martin DB6 price reset continues and restorations don’t add up

All eyes turn to Italian results • Lake Como or Milan? Rival sales produce impressive headlines for cars from all eras

Late-model Countach cuts loose • Run-out edition Lamborghini smashes estimate to join the seven-figure club

Classic Car Register to boost clarity • New database aims to prove provenance and confidence

Back to the Nineties at Brands • Kent circuit goes all-out on circuit racing nostalgia with Super Touring Power event

Thruxton’s Retro Rockets • Ambitious new motorsport and music event aimed for Seventies soul in Hampshire

July-August highlights • Summer gets into gear with country-house gatherings and sun-baked race meetings

Ghia XK140 charms Villa D’Este • Despite its questioned design origins, Italian-styled coupé courts attention at sale

A summer to remember with Classic Cars 3 ISSUES FOR £5 • One magazine; a lifetime of compelling, original stories. Each month Classic Cars magazine is packed full of great cars from the past and tales of buying, owning, driving, restoring and living with them. Get all the latest and sharpest coverage of classic car market trends, news and truly unmissable events.

Next Month • The October issue of Classic Cars takes a fond look back

Across Europe in a Lada

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QUENTIN WILLSON • While younger buyers pass over the classics of the ’50s and ’60s, they’re leaving a host of bargains in their wake. Just be prepared for further losses

ALEX RILEY • I must warn you of the perils posed by old car brochures, a world of colourful aspiration and addictive detail. You can lose all perspective…

Light Fantastic • As everyday cars get ever porkier, lightweight classics provide the antidote for pure driving joy. This is our pick of the cars that do more with less

‘GETTING WEIGHT OUT OF THE CAR BECAME ONE OF OUR CORE COMPETENCIES’ • Increasing performance and safety demands make it harder than ever to ‘add lightness’, explains Lotus engineer Gavan Kershaw

LAST DAWN • This prototype T350c embodied everything TVR would have been in the 21st Century. Was it a wrong turn or a last gasp of greatness?

[Epic Restoration] ‘Let’s restore the 308 like a 250SWB’ • You’re the boss of a Ferrari specialist, and your wife remarks that your own 308GTS is looking tatty. Hide it away, or go to town on the restoration?

LIFE STORY OF AN ASTON MARTIN DB7 VANTAGE • Not every owner of a classic has the chance to see their car being built, but the driver of this Aston Martin has and it has been with him ever since

IF YOU SEE SID… • In 1984, following the efforts of executives and...