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 • It’s all too easy to identify apparently appealing cars at tempting prices; it takes more real insight to navigate the hidden risks capable of souring the experience

[The List] Your Dream Drive made real ‘It’s without doubt a beautiful, charismatic and iconic car to drive’ • Martyn Dennis is no stranger to pre-war classics, but until now he hadn’t had the opportunity to drive a Citroën Light 15 – so we’ve put that right

Bargains to buy, newer and older • It’s time to snap up a smart and drivable Austin-Healey 3000

Miuras on the march • Does record-breaking $4.9m SV set the new level?

A stylist’s statement • Harley Earl’s protégé fell for this Fiat 8V Ghia ‘Supersonic’

Smorgasbord of Spiders • RM looks to entice the sun-worshipping Ferraristi to Monterey

Road Racing to Remember • Anniversaries abound as Coventry MotoFest gears up for another decade

Capital performance • London Concours honours McLaren legends at the Honourable Artillery Company

July-August event highlights • British classics descend on Brands Hatch, and an old favourite returns to Cheshire

Parnelli Jones, 1933-2024

Aston DB6 – an ideal ‘oily rag’? • After 30 years laid up, this dusty ‘Austin’ has spent another decade in resto limbo

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QUENTIN WILLSON • You might think £1.68million is rather a lot for a car, even one so beguiling as a Cobra 427. Bear with me while I make the case for it being a bargain

ALEX RILEY • Driving a car once owned by Stirling Moss helped me get inside the mind of a man who indulged his pursuit of perfection through the love of gadgets

£10K PORSCHES • Tempting opportunities for affordable petrolhedonism or risky roads to ruin?

SPORTING CRED THE CAYENNE TRANSSYBERIA STORY • Porsche entered an entirely new market with the Cayenne and needed an eyecatching way to confer credibility on its SUV. A quick jaunt across Siberia, then?

Still Thoroughbred • This DBS Convertible is one of the rarest Aston Martins in existence, yet it remains off collectors’ radars. We drive it, and meet the coachbuilder who created it, Paul Banham

‘Jaguar hadn’t evolved the styling… so I did it myself’ • While coachbuilder Paul Banham might have turned his expert hands to the occasional Aston Martin, he’s best known for his work on Jaguars. Here he recalls working on the XJ-S – a car ripe for reinterpretation

‘It hit the tyre wall almost front on’ • After a hefty shunt during a hill climb outing, this 1936 Fiat Balilla became the subject of a restoration that would test the resolve, ingenuity and resourcefulness of even the most adept specialists

THE LIFE STORY OF A 1978 Arkley SS • Once a schoolboy’s project, this kit-car has taken one enthusiast on life’s journey, from Le Mans to restoration and serious car collecting

CARQUAKE • In late 1973, international events provoked an oil crisis that changed the car world forever. We look...