Classic & Sports Car

Classic & Sports Car is the world's best-selling classic car magazine and the undisputed authority for all owners and enthusiasts. Whether your interest is Italian Exotica, British sports cars of the 1950s and 1960s or modern classics, every issue of Classic & Sports Car perfectly complements the sheer joy and nostalgia of owning a classic car.

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Welcome

Classic & Sports Car • SEPTEMBER 2026 • VOLUME 45, NO 6

SHELSLEY’S FESTIVAL • Record-breakers, one-offs and motorsport heroes assembled at Classic Nostalgia, Shelsley Walsh’s relaxed alternative to Goodwood

RIVALROUS GOODWOOD

STARS OF STYLE ET LUXE

Porsche GB’s diamond anniversary at Silverstone

Fair game at Luton Hoo

Swedish spectacles at Aurora

Beverly Hills coup

Heveningham’s classic country extravaganza

Hampton Court fancies

From the archives

Storied C-type wins at Woodcote Park

Rare Horch tops Tegernsee

OBITUARIES

YOUNG STARS AT REVAMPED LE MANS

Packed grids welcome Brands Hatch debut

Clubmans rallyists move on to East Anglia and the Cotswolds

Lewins enjoy late charge in northern Nordic Challenge

Classics clash at Cadwell Park

Historics hit the Highlands

Paddock profile

FIRE-SCARRED FERRARI’S TRAGIC TALE

A K2 PROJECT COMES TO LIFE

PARISIAN TRICYCLE IS A PETROL PIONEER

AUSSIE SILVER GHOST IS A FAMILY AFFAIR

BARN-FIND 356 ENDS LONG SWISS SLUMBER

Look familiar? • Want to track down a lost love or looking for history on your current classic? Send details and pictures to the p9 address or email requests to alastair.clements@haymarket.com

CHRIS TWITCHELL • These wireframe studies of beautiful automotive forms reflect the fusion of engineering, design and art

Book of the month

ULTIMATE BUYER’S GUIDE • If you’re thinking of buying a classic car, don’t take the plunge without consulting our essential four-part Ultimate Buyer’s Guide, but don’t delay because time is running out to bag yourself a copy.

Model of the month

Pick of the month

Tested this month

Mick WALSH

Simon TAYLOR

Martin BUCKLEY

ARCHIVE

Letter of the month

THE FINER THINGS • Our guide to acquiring the superb yet sensible Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow

Little & LARGE • A quarter of a century on, BMW’s MINI is an emerging classic, but how does it rate against the last-of-the-line Rover Mini Cooper Sport?

Y can’t this be love? • The first 700 or so BMW MINIs were produced right at the end of the Y-reg period. Today they are hunted by a dedicated group of enthusiasts

‘Gears, blower & exhaust deliver a screaming chorus around this hallowed course’ • Based on an Aston Martin, the Halford Special was conceived to compete at Brooklands and has just undergone a remarkably exacting restoration

Imperious • Humber’s ambition to offer its Imperial and Super Snipe with V8 power was cut short, but this pre-production survivor reveals what could have been

Once were warriors • Dan Gurney had his first win there, but the challenge of California’s Paramount Ranch circuit proved too perilous for motorsport

Pieces of eight • At the dawn of the 1970s, these two unlikely rivals from each side of the Atlantic offered differing takes on four-seat V8 motoring

LIVING THE QUIET LIFE • This hard-working Rolls-Royce Phantom III spent much of its life ferrying royalty and, later, Portugal’s visiting dignitaries in hushed luxury

STANDING ROOM AT THE BACK • The crowd-pleasing landaulet was once the favoured transport of adulation-seeking heads of...