Classic Car Buyer

This photograph of a C123-generation Mercedes-Benz coupe was snapped by our editor, Paul, on a recent walk along Brighton seafront. It looked to be a good, solid example that’s still in regular use. Based around the W123 saloon but using a shorter wh

The Lancaster Insurance Pride of Ownership competition is set to reach its conclusion at next month’s Classic Motor Show – with a total of 20 finalists selected from an impressive array of more than 80 entries. The finalists will be brought together

A 1903 Panhard-Levassor that’s been in the same family ownership from new – making it potentially unique among its peers – is set to take part in this year’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, taking place on Sunday, November 6. It was 119 years ago

Tickets are now available for Bicester Heritage’s Winter Scramble, set to take place on January 9, 2023, following the success of the recent October event. Visitors to the latest Scramble were able to enjoy a display celebrating two unexpectedly conn

Bentley Motors has announced the opening of its new Heritage Garage, with part of the original Crewe factory site being repurposed to house some of the most historically significant Bentley models of the last 103 years. The Heritage Garage complement

Sign up to our newsletter at www.classicsworld.co.uk Jaguar has announced that its F-Type roadster and coupe will be discontinued by the end of 2023, bringing to an end 75 years of combustion-engined sports cars – a lineage that stretches back to the

A 1931 Rolls-Royce 20/25 that for many years carried Dame Vera Lynn to the annual Ditchling Fair in her East Sussex home village is due to go under the hammer with H&H Classics as this issue of CCB hits the shops. The car, complete with original-spec

The rise of revitalised MG in the UK shows no sign of abating, with the company’s January to September 2022 sales figures seeing a year-on-year increase of almost 67 per cent – with 38,312 new cars registered – compared with an overall market decline

Just when you think WB & Sons can’t pull any more magic out of its auction hat, along comes its next sale on October 29 with another superb line-up of desirable rarities, traditional classics and one-offs. This time there’s a real sporting bias, howe

British classics will feature heavily when SWVA puts around 70 cars under the hammer during its final classic auction of 2022 on October 28. The sale itself will once again be held behind closed doors, but viewing appointments are available during th

To keep up with the likes of Triumph and Austin-Healey on the race circuit and rally stage, the boffins at MG developed a high-performance version of the MGA based around an enlarged (1588cc) B-Series block with an all-new alloy DOHC cylinder head. P

The GS was supposed to do for small family cars what the DS had done for large saloons 15 years earlier. Conceptually, it was something of a melange of existing Citroën thinking (an air-cooled engine like the 2CV, hydropneumatics suspension like the

The high cost of developing a new car from scratch often means plenty of overlaps between different generations of the same model. It’s traditionally been rare for a new arrival to be fresh in every way, with a brand new platform and never-before-see

As well as enjoying healthy sales in the saloon sector, Triumph had a long history of successful sports cars, its TR range being particularly popular with enthusiasts over many years. But during the middle of the 1960s, the company began to explore t

In the same year that Rolls-Royce unveiled its eagerly awaited new Silver Shadow, two of the most significant names in the UK’s motor industry became interwoven via the British Motor Corporation’s acquisition of Cowley-based Pressed Steel Ltd – the U

Arguably the only real rival to Citroën’s 2CV, the Renault 4 took a package that worked for generations of French farmers and developed it into a usable concept that also worked in cities… as well as everywhere else in between and beyond. Looking at

VW may have been one of the first European manufacturers to offer a front-wheel drive coupe to British buyers (truth be told, it took nearly a year for the original Scirocco to arrive in right-hand drive), but even the rebodied, second-generation ran

Contact: Paul Higgs Cars, New Milton, Bournemouth, Hants BH25 6SH Tel: 01425 839617 paulhiggscars.com In the last calendar year of Mini sales, the decision was made to add the ‘Classic’ moniker to prepare the market for the all-new MINI waiting in th

Reader David Graham, who is the proud owner of a 1965 Jaguar Mk2 as well as a five-year-old XF that he uses every day, has written in after reading our main news story (CCB, October 5) that detailed Jaguar’s current challenges and falling sales. “I’m