Classic Car Buyer

This year’s Retromobile show at the Paris Expo – marking the return of one of Europe’s biggest classic car events after a two-year hiatus – concluded on March 20. Set over two large floors, the 46th edition of the show delighted visitors with an incr

The legendary V12 Vantage name has been revived by Aston Martin for a commemorative, limited-edition version of its two-seater coupe, with a substantial performance boost over the standard V8 car. The company will build just 333 examples of the newco

Sign up to our newsletter at www.classicsworld.co.uk What were described as “the mortal remains” of a 1963 AC Ace 2.6, offered with no reserve in the most recent H&H sale, went on to sell for an impressive £202,500 – despite the car’s original chassi

Sometimes, we make life unnecessarily complicated for ourselves in the quest for ‘fun’, a case in point being a recent trip to the Retromobile show in Paris. It would have been so much easier to take a modern company car or the Eurostar over to the F

Anglia Car Auctions’ second classic sale of the year takes place this weekend (April 2-3), with a superb mix of everyman and prestige vehicles set to cross the block at the firm’s King’s Lynn base. For the second consecutive sale the venue will be op

One of the highlights of this year’s delayed Salon Retromobile was the annual Artcurial auction on March 18-19, which was so vast it took up a good proportion of the event’s lower floor at Paris Expo all on its own. This was never going to be a sale

These solid, separate-chassis cars with torquey engines and rugged, long-travel suspension made for a superb and utterly British tourer. Named by its horsepower, the 75 was first; a 2.1-litre inlet-over-exhaust (IOE) six was mated to transatlantic, S

By the ’70s, it was clear that the Volvo 1800 belonged to the past decade. Designer, Jan Wilsgaard, worked up two proposals to modify the 1800 further in 1968; a radical, abruptly tapered shooting break, built by Frua (nicknamed ‘The Rocket’ by Volvo

We all like to think our cars are maintained pretty well. But how often have you taken your classic down to the MoT station and discovered a major unknown fault? And that’s assuming, of course, that your classic is even due an MoT. With Historic Vehi

Created by the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs (FBHVC) to help raise awareness of the classic vehicle movement among the wider population, and the promote the importance of our transport heritage, Drive It Day has played an important rol

May 15 Away from the regular hillclimb series, the Prescott events season kicks off with the local Rotary Club’s charity event. Now in its 19th year, the event returns to its traditional spring slot after an enforced September date last year. As usua

If you were to only briefly glance at the history books, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Lotus took to building production cars like a duck to water. The Lotus Elan, one of the company’s earliest designs, is of course a renowned car for all the r

Celebrating eight decades of motorsport is this amazing two-day event, with an array of highlights this year that include the Jaguar Classic Challenge, the ‘Mad Jack’ Pre-War Sports Car series, the Historic Touring Car Challenge (for ’70s and ’80s ra

This week’s image was taken on busy Earlsdon Street, Coventry on October 31, 1973. And with so many independent shops still around (including Live & Let Live Stores, Pennycook & Sons Jewellers, Amy Wright Millinery and Peggy Seager Fashions), locals

Grand Prix cars had put the engine behind the driver (but not so far it was behind the rear axle) since Adolf Rosenberger’s experiments in the 1920s; the Porsche co-founder had engineers, including Dr Porsche himself, mount that car’s V16 in the midd

Few would deny that the original Mini was Britain’s biggest automotive icon of the swinging ’60s. It might have got off to a shaky start saleswise, but once it appeared in glossy magazines being driven by the rich and famous on the fashionable street

If you need to change the tyres on your classic and you’re looking for some advice from the experts, talk to Longstone Tyres – a leading name in the supply of tyres for classic and vintage cars, run by a small team of dedicated enthusiasts. They’ll d

During the 1950s and 1960s, Volkswagen was accelerating down a blind alley. Boss Heinrich Nordhoff had seen that the rear-engined models were selling steadily and discouraged any effort to vary the formula out of fear of upsetting the apple cart. But

Contact: Richard Thorne Classic Cars James Lane, Grazeley Green Reading, RG7 1NB Tel: 0118 983 1200 https://www.rtcc.co.uk/ Morgan is well known for its tendency to stick to a core set of ideals, but that’s not to say that the company is blind to cha

Our eclectic fleet continues to expand, and the latest addition is a slice of ’80s nostalgia in the shape of a Porsche 944 – the wide-arched evolution of the 924 which ditched the old Audi engine for a Porsche unit, essentially half of the 928’s V8 e

What brought this sharply into focus was an email from my cousin in Australia who found himself to be the owner of a stranded 2012 Opel Insignia on which the power steering pump had given up the ghost despite, or maybe because of, its low mileage. He

The eagerly awaited 2022 Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show, which returned to the NEC, Birmingham on March 18-20, proved to be another a major success. Clubs and traders alike did brisk business throughout the three-day event, which p

Markets Editor Jeff’s recent trip to Retromobile included a detour to the former Reims-Gueux Grand Prix road circuit. You’ll often see exotica parked up alongside the historic grandstands for a pic, though Jeff’s steed was a rather more humble K11 Mi