Practical Classics

Practical Classics magazine has a 30-year tradition of delivering the very best, hands-on classic car experiences to its readers. Every staff writer and contributor works on and restores their own classics. Each issue is packed with: * Rigorous buying advice * Real-world product tests * Inspirational classic driving features * Fascinating historical insight Practical Classics is also a campaigning title, taking the concerns of classic car owners to Parliament and keeping its readers' classics where they belong - on the road. So come and join PC in the workshop - the kettle's on.

WELCOME TO THE WINNERS • Team PC and Great British Car Journey reveal your favourites

NEC show at 40 • Show visitors promised a 40th birthday party to remember

THE MONTH IN 5 PICS

Starting HANDLE • Ian Tisdale on why getting your classic MOT’d just makes sense

THIS MONTH WE LOVE…

RUSTIVAL RETURNS • Second sunny outing at BMM even bigger than the first

MY MONTH IN 5 PICS • Danny shows us what’s in his camera…

The DVLA is listening… • HCVA conference shows agency and government’s future thinking

GOVENMENT LISTENING, TOO? • Minister shows support, but with no all party group, is it sustainable?

NEWS IN BRIEF…

PC joins 24hr charity challenge • Our own intrepid team raise money for Sophie’s Legacy…

ROVER OWNERS RAISE THOUSANDS • 200/400 Owners’ Club nets over £5k for good causes

‘It’s the perfect contrast to tech’ • Solomon Welch on a youthful passion for classic restoration and revival

Great temptations • The latest and greatest new kit to market for you and your classic

BOOK SHELF

Commonwealth Car Club heads for 500

GCCG GETS ECONOMICAL

NEC show hits 40 • The United Kingdom’s biggest and most popular classic car show hits impressive milestone

ENTRY-LEVEL MOTORSPORT

LONDON AND BRIGHTON

Where to go this Weekend…

MEMORY LANE • Fish-based mayhem in this old London scene

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN 1965

YOUR 100 FAVOURITE CLASSICS • From one to one hundred, your favourites in order

YOUR 100 CLASSICS DRIVEN? • ‘You can: with your code PCB99, you save £56!’ Says Richard Usher…

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THE SAUSAGE RUN • Team PC celebrate Theo Gillam’s life in cars and cooked meat with some lovely old bangers

YOUR SHOUT • Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

YOUR CROSSWORD

Practical Classics

YOUR CARS • The classic you love, drive and restore

SPOTTED • Older cars in everyday use

ALL GONE SOUTH • Hopes were dashed when Kevin Gunner stripped his Alfasud – but the pain was worthwhile

‘It was built to be driven!’ • Phil Coates’s welder had been gathering dust for 20 years, but he fired it up for this Vitesse

‘Learn to drive in a Mexico?!’ • Nick continues the tales of classic legend Colin Bedford

‘McLaren/Mercedes… mashed’ • John reviews an SLR that costs twice the price of an… SLR

‘Bad weather? Consider it an omen’ • Our classics will be affected by climate change

RUST IN PEACE • What have we found in the brambles this month?

FANCY A PUNT? • ‘Strange when you try to explain big risers’

Old school • Brace of MG bargains bagged at Hampsons

The Good Auction Guide PC’s pick of the best classic auctions

Wera Tools • Heavy metal is the theme music to these precision instruments

WHAT I BOUGHT THIS MONTH… • 1975 FIAT 124 SPIDER DANNY HOPKINS EDITOR

GILBERN INVADER 1969-1973 • Why this slice of fire-breathing Welsh exotica is well worth snapping up…

CHAMPION CLASSICS • We choose between these...