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Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tim Berners-Lee… they top a list of names that spark worship, bitter resentment or mannered respect. Their cause célèbre – they spotted a better way to do something that was ticking along quite happily beforehand, and they unleashed something so successful that it smashed everything in its path. When the hot hatchback toppled the affordable performance coupé, the sports saloon pushed aside the no-frills roadster and the SUV climbed onto the prestige saloon market, loss of tradition was bemoaned, teeth were gnashed and pints of ale were spilt. In our world, doubts were muttered about these new upstarts ever being properly embraced as classics. But here we are, with a few decades’ more perspective in one direction and the promise of a rapidly…

‘This lives up to everything I wanted it to be’

Old man Ferrari was – among lots of other things – always good for a quote. One of Enzo’s most famous sayings was ‘I don't sell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free, since something has to hold the engines in’. And as freebies go, the 308GT4 is an undeniably attractive little package. It’s also one that Classic Cars reader Terry Taylor has had to wait 48 years to get his hands on. Finally coming face-to-face with his dream drive at HPC Classics on the south coast of this green, and today, very pleasant land, Terry says he has always loved the looks of the little Ferrari. ‘As much from the rear as from the front, I love the angles and just can’t stop looking at…

‘This lives up to everything I wanted it to be’

Even top examples look cheaper

A smudge more than £21,000 for a very low-mileage 1999 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 doesn’t sound dear. Especially for one in stunning nick. Hampson’s Tattenhall sale in September knocked down a mint, 22,000-mile Guards Red 1999 Carrera 4 non-sunroof coupé – with the desirable manual six-speed gearbox, factory GT3 Aero kit and Turbo alloys – for £21,375. Totally unmarked, it came with an ‘extensive history file’ of main dealer and local specialist servicing, old MoT certificates supporting the mileage, a full book pack and stamped service record, with the vendor saying that it had been ‘serviced extensively, regardless of mileage’. So far so good. But the 996 was hardly the most robust 911 vintage; Porsche was struggling financially during its development period and enacted some all-too-obvious cost‑cutting measures. Many Boxster…

Even top examples look cheaper

Escort Cosworth record at NEC

Eye-popping prices for classic Fords at the NEC Classic Motor Show sale have become normal, but a 1992 Escort RS Cosworth Lux with just 2221 miles smashed expectations to set a new record for the model at £202,500, including premium. Other Fords sold beyond their strong estimates: a 1990 Sierra Sapphire Cosworth Rouse Sport 204-R for £84,375 (est. £70k-£80k); a one-owner 1972 Capri 1600L for £34,875 (est. £28k-£32k); and a 1987 RS200 with 8800 miles for £236,250 (est. £190k-£210k). Motorsport history adds fuel to a fiery market, and the 1990 ex-Tim Harvey RS500 Cosworth BTCC car made £309,375 on an undisclosed estimate. Some failed – a 32,000-mile Sierra Sapphire Cosworth 2WD is desirable but a £60k-£70k estimate looked greedy, and maybe a 10,000-mile Sierra RS Cosworth three-door is not automatically…

Escort Cosworth record at NEC

Eighties excess, German style

The first half of the Eighties saw an explosion of customised, modified offerings based on European luxury cars, and especially Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Ferrari. Many of the firms responsible were German, such as AMG, B&B, Brabus, Gemballa, Koenig, Lorinser, Strosek, Zender and Styling Garage, also known as SGS. It was this last firm, based near Hamburg and run by designer and engineer Chris Hahn, that went beyond the usual approach – wide wheelarches, lavish interiors – and took inspiration from Mercedes history by fitting gullwing doors to the then-new C126 500SEC coupé. This demanded not only a strengthened roof structure but steel beams in the sills to maintain the car’s rigidity. The end result was remarkably successful, offering a larger and easier door aperture than the original 300SL could claim.…

Eighties excess, German style

Tool Room Copy is a rare opportunity

The DP or Design Prototype Aston Martins are among the most valuable cars seen in historic motorsport. As a guide, the only original car sold in recent years fetched $21.5m (£16.8m) at the RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale back in 2018. That was DP215, successor to the two DP214s and the first DP212. All were based on the DB4GT, and clothed in streamlined bodywork that aimed squarely at the Ferrari 250GTO. Two DP214 cars were built in 1963 and were successful at Brands Hatch, Goodwood, Monza, and Montlhèry. One was later destroyed in an accident; the other survives. The first of three DP214 recreations was built in 1991, the third completed in 2014. The car pictured is the second, based on a 1961 chassis. It began with Adrian Johnson at Post-Vintage…

Tool Room Copy is a rare opportunity

The market in general for pre-war cars and Fifties and Sixties models is slow, but in October I had one of the busiest months of the year,’ says Mark Elder of The Motor Shed. ‘It’s all so unpredictable, but my feeling is it’s now bottomed out. Austin Sevens are doing okay, and I see a huge range of buyers from teenagers after a project, to those in their seventies. With sporting Sevens, aesthetics matter, then there’s reliability and build quality, plus of course the engine. A nice revvy unit built by someone like Pigsty Racing adds a lot of appeal but even the common SU carburettor conversion can give you 50mph rather than 45mph, which adds to usability. Something like the supercharged special I’m offering, or one of the two…

CLASSICS DODGE CGT RISE The UK’s recent budget saw an increase in the rate of Capital Gains Tax from 10 percent to 18 percent for gains within an individual’s unused basic rate band, and from 20 percent to 24 percent for higher rate taxpayers. All cars bought for personal use are still classified as ‘wasting assets’ – an expectation they will depreciate and/or cost money to own, remaining exempt from CGT. Good news for those who can pick models likely to appreciate, even if truly investable cars are harder to find. HAMPSON AUCTIONS LAUNCHES ONLINE SALES Hampson Auctions has launched an online sales brand. Hampson Marketplace will offer flat fees (£300 for cars, £200 for motorcycles, £100 for registration plates) and no seller’s commission, with a seven percent buyer’s premium.…

Record NEC draws in the crowds

A record 338 classic car clubs and 71,520 visitors swelled the halls of the NEC for the annual Classic Motor Show. The new Hall of Fame saw Mike Brewer, the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Club’s David Whale, and the Jaguar E-type all honoured for their contributions to classic motoring, while new live stages put enthusiasts in conversation with journalists, podcasters and industry experts about safeguarding the future of the movement. Swallow Doretti ‘This was Swallow’s only works racer, and the first Doretti to be registered in the UK,’ said Dave Flavell of his car, making its show debut on the TR Register stand. ‘It only raced once, at Silverstone. It was meant to attempt a speed-record run at Jabbeke, but that was cancelled. ‘Officially, it was Swallow’s development and…

Record NEC draws in the crowds

New rally makes ‘RAC’ annual

Organised by the team behind the biennial RogerAlbert Clark rally, the new Rally Anglo Caledonian complemented the established event, set to run on alternate years. Consisting of both English and Scottish legs – which can be contested separately – and incorporating the last round of the Scottish Rally Championship, the scope for entries ranged from Clark’s era to the present day. The 134-mile event – 77 miles on the Saturday in and around Carlisle, with a further 58 miles on Sunday – rekindled memories of the Network Q RAC Rally in the era of Burns and McRae. It’ll be back again in 2026. Mitsubishi Evo X This Mitsubishi Evo, the last to be built for World Championship-level rallying, actually competed for the very first time on the Rally Anglo Caledonian.…

New rally makes ‘RAC’ annual

December 15 Festive Four Wheelers, Bicester Heritage, Oxfordshire bicesterheritage.co.uk 28 ‘Twixmas’ Almost New Year Great British Car Meet, The Great British Car Journey, Ambergate, Derbyshire greatbritishcarjourney.com January 5 January Scramble, Bicester Heritage, Oxfordshire bicesterheritage.co.uk 9-12 Autosport International, NEC, Birmingham autosportinternational.com 16-19 Interclassics Classic Car Show, Maastricht, Netherlands interclassics.events 29-February 5 Rallye Monte Carlo Historique, Monaco acm.mc February 5-9 Rétromobile, Paris, France retromobile.com…

Ex-Royal VdP hidden for 56 years

Any car with a sniff of Royal ownership acquires a glow, but this remarkable Vanden Plas 4.0-litre R estate car has a much stronger claim to fame. It wasn’t just a ceremonial carriage for annual parades, it was Queen Elizabeth II’s family transport from 1966-1969. There is video evidence of this, thanks to a brief appearance of the car in a BBC/ITV co-production, simply called Royal Family, showing the Royals at home in 1969. Prince Edward is given sweets and allowed to ride in the front, no seatbelt in sight, as he and the Queen head back to Balmoral from the village shop for a loch-side barbecue. In addition to this clip, which appears on YouTube, a member of the Vanden Plas Owners Club was able to enquire about the…

Ex-Royal VdP hidden for 56 years

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Top 51 Design Classics

LETTER OF THE MONTH I'm sure that you will have had many letters from your readers starting with ‘…there is one glaring omission…’ (Top 50 Design Classics, January 2025), so here is one more for your inbox! You rightfully include the brilliant Lotus Elan for its engineering innovations, but the real star from Lotus, in my view as an owner, is the +2 model that it spawned five years later. An achingly beautiful car from any angle, it was a serious rival to Jaguar’s E-type, whose performance it would match up to three figure speeds in final S130 guise. Mike Pim-Keirle Too many Italians? Too few! I know there will be complaints about the number of Italian designs in your Top 50 Design Classics but you need to add one…

Top 51 Design Classics

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Those of a certain age will remember a time when tinkering with your car was a social norm. A Sunday afternoon giving the Cortina or Viva a once-over was for many a pleasurable ritual. A masculine rite of passage, fathers taught their sons car maintenance with workshop manuals and tyre pressure gauges exchanged at birthday and Christmas. A British weekend saw millions of suburban bonnets raised for oil, brake fluid, antifreeze and tyres to be diligently checked. We did this mostly because we didn’t want to die. Cars back then drank oil and water like dipsomaniacs and wore out crossplies and brake shoes like carthorses. We forget how unreliable and rusty those mass-market motors really were, and the constant fiddling required to keep them running smoothly and safely. Show a…

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“Oh, what fun it is to Drive …”

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In the December issue of Classic Cars, I wrote a feature about the TR7 Tracer – a one-off 2+2 estate commissioned by Page Motors of Surrey – and it got me thinking about the appeal of shooting brakes. Not only do they offer more space, the elongated roofline and almost upright rear-end usually improves the looks of the car it’s based on. Just look at the Lynx Eventer, a Jaguar XJ-S shooting brake conversion. I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t like it. Which makes it all the more surprising that more mainstream car makers haven’t embraced the shooting brake. In my opinion, the Scimitar GTE really should have inspired many more imitators than it actually did. The Lotus Elite is probably my favourite, but I do find the Jensen GT…

Incremental improvements can only take you so far. Now and then what progress demands is a quantum leap that upsets accepted ideas, a revolution that challenges everything in the name of innovation. It doesn’t always work, but the Range Rover, Triumph Dolomite Sprint and Volkswagen Golf GTI all challenged the automotive status quo and made the Jaguar XJ6, MGB and Ford Capri look like yesterday’s cars almost overnight. They, and the cars that followed in their wheel tracks, changed the automotive market forever. In the Seventies, these disruptors represented a bold vision of the future, but five decades on does that make them more exciting as classic buys? Have the more traditional cars they replaced stood the test of time as well, or better? Let’s hit the road and find…

Chevy Corvair Changing the paradigm isn’t easy, even for multinational car makers with enormous resources. Take the Chevrolet Corvair, an innovative ‘compact’ car introduced in 1960. Size wasn’t its only departure from the American norm: it had an air-cooled, alloy, flat-six engine, mounted in the tail of a monocoque body. Initially it sold well, but it suffered from heavy fuel consumption, transmission issues and lift-off oversteer that US drivers weren’t used to. Lawsuits following crashes mounted up, and activist Ralph Nader wrote a damning book, Unsafe at Any Speed. The Corvair was heavily revised in 1965, but sales never recovered. ‘Rotary power was seen as the future; car makers poured millions into refining the Wankel engine’ NSU Ro80 Rotary power was seen as the future in the Sixties. Car makers…

My brain can’t make its mind up if I’m excited or terrified as I find myself on the Lurcy-Lévy circuit northwest of Moulins in the middle of France staring at an all-silver 917 in a sponsor-free livery. Built in 1971, chassis 917-030 was initially a Porsche development car for a new anti-lock braking system. It only raced once, at least in part to trial the technology, qualifying third at the Zeltweg 1000kms, the final race of the 1971 World Sportscar Championship season. After four hours, Helmut Marko and Gérard Larrousse were on course for second place, before a puncture damaged the bodywork and with it the aerodynamics, prompting its retirement. After this briefest of competition careers, the car continued its ABS development role – and tested a supercharger system –…

‘It only came in for a new head gasket’

It had been in storage since 2000,’ says David Hickman, who has owned this 1965 Mini Moke for more than 45 years. ‘In 2003 it went to Ron Smith at Runamoke, in Maldon, Essex, one of the main Moke specialists. It had a new rear end to the body tub, front panels and a floor. There was a fair bit of rust and when you can get new panels, it makes sense to replace them. Ron repainted it in Snowberry White and he did the engine then too. It was finished around 2010 and it definitely put the car back into use, but we hadn’t gone for a concours result. It was about eight out of ten, I’d say.’ By 2020, that eight out of ten had dipped to a…

‘It only came in for a new head gasket’

LIFE STORY OF A BMW 3.0CSi

3 January 1973 – first registration of OPF 522L On 28 December 1972, City Assurance Consultants, the company Richard Ingham worked for, pays £5793.70 for his latest company car, a BMW 3.0CSi. Optional extras included power steering (£115), Polaris (silver) metallic paint (£82) and tinted glass (£62). Interestingly, the invoice displayed a 15 percent discount off the basic price of £5128 for what is a rare car. Richard says there’s conjecture as to how many were built but it seems the number tallies only a few hundred. ‘I bought the BMW through a broker called Car Consultants (USA) Ltd because it could get discounts that the main dealer wouldn’t give. Nevertheless, I picked the car up from a BMW dealer in Cobham. It was a freezing cold day – winters…

LIFE STORY OF A BMW 3.0CSi

The hot hatchback is a proud breed of cars perfectly suited to British roads, and a type of machine that has grown evermore sophisticated and faster while staying true to its roots. This merry group of cars are also prone to the wonder of depreciation, making them accessible modern classics – providing you choose the right one. Icons like the Peugeot 205GTi have long broken free from value loss, but some bargains remain. We’re not talking second-rate stragglers either. Some of the best hot hatches remain out there at very reasonable money. Future icons that hark back to the days of the simple, lightweight, big‑engine/tiny car formula. We’re talking, of course, about the Clio Renaultsport. These fantastic cars are intense and agile, ruthlessly focused but playful. They balance old-school thrills…

Run your eyes over the Clio V6 for the first time, and you’re in no doubt this is one very special little car. It may bear a passing resemblance to the 172 and 182 Cup models, but the V6-powered rowdy Renault is a proper baby supercar, ripped with muscular bulges, spoilers, and air scoops. It exudes menace from every pore, the massive air intakes looking like something a teenager might draw while sat in a maths class on a dreary Monday. Find the hidden door handle just ahead of the rear air vent, climb in, settle into the Recaro seat and look over your shoulder. Sitting there is this extraordinary car’s USP. That big 252bhp V6 engine is the reason this car looks, sounds, and goes like it does. The…

Five steps to buying a Fiat 124 Spider

‘As an everyday classic, the driving experience is remarkably good and easy-going’ Italian sports cars have a bellissimo allure to a select band of classic car enthusiasts, but don’t automatically think low-slung coupés wearing the Prancing Horse badge. The Fiat 124 Spider – or 124 Sport Spider to give it its full name – is pretty and, with its twin-cam engine, five-speed gearbox, four-wheel disc brakes, and easy-to-use soft-top, sophisticated too. Cutting edge in 1966, it remained in production for 19 years, and the arrival of the modern Mazda MX5-based iteration in 2016 has renewed interest in the original. The driving experience is also remarkably good and easy-going, and with thorough rust protection these cars can still make surprisingly good everyday classics. So much so that Quentin Willson picked the…

Five steps to buying a Fiat 124 Spider

Grands Prix: 75 Years of Formula One Racing By multiple authors, £60, accartbooks.com, ISBN 978 1 78884 268 6 A picture tells a thousand words, so the cliché has it. But what makes Grands Prix special is that each gobsmacking, quarto-sized photograph is backed up with the details of the full story it tells, by the photographer who took it. Incredibly, this goes all the way back to Michael Tee capturing Juan-Manuel Fangio in a four-wheel drift in 1957, ending with Andy Hone risking all to document Romain Grosjean’s death-defying escape from his shattered, burning Haas in 2020 at the Bahrain Grand Prix. The result is an intimate history of Formula One from the perspective of people who are at once both integral, and outsiders. With no team loyalty, yet…

Welding celebration

Two milestones; one lost week. My wife’s Boxster tipped over the 200,000-mile threshold recently, more than 150,000 of them added in her 18 years with the car. How to celebrate – memorable road trip, re-watch the original promo video, treat the car to a nice shiny accessory or pro valet? All nice, but with winter approaching, we reckoned dealing with the rust blisters creeping round from inside the wheelarch lips was more important. Porsches, maybe most cars from this period, seem to retain the rust-free looks of youth remarkably well, but eventually, even the most thoroughly-applied protection starts to fail. The brown death first appeared at the front edge of the sills where the factory anti-stonechip paint eventually succumbs to gritblasting from the tyres. Plastic wheelarch liners do a fine…

Welding celebration

I’ll be honest – I was never a huge fan of green cars. I’d always hankered after blue hues, but when I received pictures of the Ghibli Cup post-paintshop, I soon became an avowed member of the Verde herd. The Cup’s bodywork wasn’t terrible, but there were areas of concern. The bonnet and bumper had a selection of scrapes and were worn-looking; the more troubling areas were on the front wings. The paintwork hadn’t broken, but it had a veiny feel akin to the walls in The Prodigy’s Breathe video. The rest of the car was in good condition, so I chose to have the wings, doors, front bumper and bonnet repainted via one of McGrath’s contacts. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Taking the wings off means taking the under-windscreen spoiler…

Flat-out to nowhere

I’d been ignoring the engine warning light, figuring that because the Celica had been running faultlessly, it was probably nothing serious. Right up until, driving back from Nottingham late one November evening, I pulled out into the fast lane of the A52 to overtake an HGV, put my right foot down, and while the VVTi engine revved noisily, the expected power and torque simply wasn’t there. The Celica was suddenly doing a very annoying impression of a base-model Yaris. It wasn’t clutch slip, but rather an unexpected falloff in power. Turning the radio down revealed a loud air-sucking sound from behind the bulkhead, and at each set of traffic lights the car wasn’t sure whether to idle at 500rpm or 1500rpm. I managed to limp the Toyota home on…

Flat-out to nowhere

1997 Aston Martin DB7 Volante

This isn’t a perfect Aston Martin DB7 Volante, but nor is it purporting to be. A recent price drop to a fiver short of £20k – nearly ten grand short of top money for roofless DB7s – reflects this. Old V8 Volantes never depreciated into this territory, let alone convertible DB4s, 5s and 6s, making this one a special opportunity. The metalwork is in excellent condition too, with no marks or signs of rust. The plastic parts aren’t quite so flawless – there’s a hairline crack in the nosecone just below the passenger-side headlight, and a little scrape in the bumper aft of the driver’s-side rear wheel, but these are minor quibbles. There is a crack in the driver’s-side door mirror glass though. More importantly, the hood is in superb…

1997 Aston Martin DB7 Volante

Jaguar XK150 3.4S £129,995

This pretty Jaguar XK150 – a genuine 3.4S – purports to offer a combination of originality and very sympathetic, low-key restoration to fend off the ravages of the future. Bodily it looks mint, the paint finish is smooth, panel fit is straight and it’s not overly shiny. It appears like an older, sparingly-used restoration, with not a single stone chip in evidence. The service history file that comes with the car suggests as such. Admittedly it’s not either massive or comprehensive – there’s only a handful of MoT certificates and they aren’t continuous – but it is indicative of a car that’s been continually looked after and kept ticking over during its 51,340 indicated miles. Just two owners are recorded on the V5 registration document and a Jaguar Daimler Heritage…

Jaguar XK150 3.4S £129,995

2006 Maserati Coupé £12,950

The 3200GT-derived Maserati V8 range is one of the less expensive ways to enjoy a genuine modern supercar, and this one is temptingly priced. With these cars, the secret to a painless ownership experience without going bankrupt, however, is to major on condition, provenance and history – and this particular example seems to have all these bases covered. It’s also thrilling to drive. The sonorous-sounding Ferrari-based V8 is in fine fettle, registering correct oil pressure and temperature readings, and a recent gearbox check was probably precautionary as the automated six-speed ‘Cambiocorsa’ (‘racing change’) performs faultlessly in both paddleshift and fully automatic modes. The recently replaced tyres are budget brand Zeta Adventi, which although adequate, don’t do the full 390bhp justice. Also in apparently good health is the computer-controlled suspension, but…

2006 Maserati Coupé £12,950

1978 Triumph Stag £36,995

With a healthy stash of previous MoT certificates supporting such a low mileage, you’d have to look far and wide to find another showroom-spec Stag as original as this example, which explains a price that’s easily £10,000 above the going rate. However, perhaps the biggest issue lies in that low mileage – just 7484 miles – which places severe limitations on its future use. Is this, one of the very last Stags built, a car to simply show off or to enjoy? On full manual choke, its much-maligned V8 starts first turn, sounding glorious as a good Stag always does. And having been barely run in, naturally there are no quibbles about how YRB 69S (originally 1 DCE) drives, and you can appreciate why the majority were automatics, because it…

1978 Triumph Stag £36,995

‘The 25 is more than worthy of its GTI badge. If it had one’

It’s so restrained that Rover hasn’t bothered to put any GTI badges on it, which would seem to defeat the point somewhat,’ mused Mike Duff as he took in the new Rover 25 GTI in CAR’s February 2000 issue. Image was a problem for Rover, and even the striking BRM version of the 25’s 200 predecessor had backfired. Range-wide chrome grilles and wood-veneer trim had given sales a boost against dull plasticky Escorts and Astras in the Nineties, but it had been a theme Rover had taken to extremes. The modernist image of the SD1 had been lost. The 75 of 1998 was a fine mid-level luxury contender, but it drew upon genteel themes which appealed primarily to elderly men in tweed jackets. Then Rover cancelled a Tony Pond-tuned racing…

‘The 25 is more than worthy of its GTI badge. If it had one’

WHAT’S IT WORTH? Whether you’re buying or selling, our guide illustrates how the market is treating that model. We consult specialists, clubs and dealers, and scour auction results to ensure our guide is as accurate as possible. But an individual car’s value can only be assessed in person. Cars with exceptional mileage, history, unrestored originality or fresh restorations can be worth disproportionately more. On ‘bluechip’ models our price spreads reflect the importance of provenance and history over condition. USING THE GUIDE Concours/Dealer If you can afford it, do it. This is what to pay for a top-notch example; also a good guide to concours value Mint Shiny and bright, but not concours condition. Any defects should be small. You’ll get a fine example for this money Usable Tidy and ready…

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