June 2022

Classic Car Mart

The UK's best selling monthly classic cars for sale magazine

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Classic Car Mart
Incorporating www.classic-car-mart.co.uk CLASSIC CAR MART Kelsey Media, 5 Yalding Hill, Downs Court Yalding, ME18 6AL Group Editor: Paul Wager Markets Editor: Jeff Ruggles Production Editor: Jack Grover ccm.ed@kelsey.co.uk Art Editor: Lee Caple lee.c
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Alarming Stuff
You can read elsewhere how I’ve managed to get our immobilised Porsche running despite having no formal qualification in electronics or auto electrics but having a long history of successful bodgery in these areas and being generally determined not t
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Final Astra Leaves Ellesmere Port
The final British-built Vauxhall Astra has rolled off the line at Ellesmere Port as the Cheshire factory begins its transformation into an electric vehicle manufacturing hub. From early next year, the factory will produce the Vauxhall Combo-e van, as
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Restomod Craze Continues
Check out loads more news at WWW.CLASSICS-WORLD.CO.UK The restomod market has expanded once again thanks to the launch of a brace of British-built models by two separate specialist companies. First up is the Healey by Caton, created by a Coventry-bas
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Classic Car Loan Project Gathers Pace
The Classic Car Loan Project (CCLP) has celebrated five years of success with a gathering at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon. A total of 15 of the 20-plus cars in the current phase of the scheme were on display, ranging in age from 1929 to 1987 and
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Mg 100 Date
To celebrate the centenary of MG cars next year, the MG Owners’ Club, Early MG Society, MG Octagon Car Club, MG ‘T’ Society and MG Car Club are all joining forces to organise an MG spectacular on Saturday, May 27, 2023 at the British Motor Museum, Ga
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Fotu Tickets Now On Sale
Tickets for Hagerty’s 2022 Festival of the Unexceptional – the eighth event of its kind – have now gone on sale, with organisers expecting it to be the usual sell-out success. This year’s FoTU takes place on Saturday, July 30 at Grimsthorpe Castle, L
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Rods And Customs At Beaulieu
The National Motor Museum at Beaulieu is inviting all custom car enthusiasts to make it a Father’s Day to remember by attending the 2022 Hot Rod & Custom Show on Sunday, June 19. The event is sure to offer a varied line-up of customised cars and hot
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High Demand For Electric 911
Everrati Automotive has announced a new strategic partnership with Aria Group, experts in low-volume specialist manufacturing and composites, to meet increased US demand for the company’s electric Porsche 911 conversions. UK-based Everrati describes
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Rare Ac Heads To Auction
One of just 83 examples of AC’s Bristol-engined 2+2 Greyhound, a car that’s been sympathetically restored and is now ready to enjoy, is set to go on sale with Silverstone Auctions on May 28, estimated at £60,000-£70,000. The restoration was completed
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REVIEW: WB & SONS, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, MARCH 26
Amere 10 months after the business held its first sale, WB & Sons has established itself as a major player and is now holding sales every six weeks, with the latest on March 26 playing host to an excellent variety of vehicles. WB is developing a bit
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Review: Brightwells, Timed Online, March 26-30
We always expect variety from this Herefordshire firm, but the range of vehicles entered on this occasion was truly remarkable, spanning an impressive 90 years. At the beginning of that timeline was an alluring choice of pre-war entries. It’s often s
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Review: Hobbs Parker, Timed Online, March 30-31
Hobbs Parker’s first classic car action of 2022 took place on March 30-31, working to the now-familiar timed online format. The sale offered a great mix of prestige and everyman entries spanning a wide range of eras and budgets, but it was the tradit
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Review: ACA, King’s Lynn, April 2-3
Anglia Car Auctions’ latest classic sale of the year took place at its King’s Lynn base on April 2-3, with an intriguing mix of vehicles auctioned in front of the public for only the second time since the beginning of the pandemic. It proved to be a
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Healey 3000
With its muscular good looks and six-cylinder motor, the ‘Big Healey’ is firmly established as one of the most revered British sports cars of all time and typically carries a price tag to match. And yet, in a similar vein to the much cheaper Austin-H
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Keeping Up Appearances
Now here’s something you don’t see every day: a reminder of that all-too-brief golden era of Rover history from its collaboration with Honda, in the shape of a 213S. Launched in 1984, the so-called ‘SD3’ was the successor to the Triumph Acclaim, whic
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Trading Up
The concept is nothing new: start with a modest budget to acquire a classic car. The purchase needs to be a sound one at the right price. A car that has potential oozing from every panel gap. A car that, once tidied up, can be sold on for a profit; t
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Practical Woodworker
The humble Morris Minor may not be the most exotic of classic machinery but it’s been a staple of the hobby for decades now and indeed was one of the cars which is recognised to have kicked off the entire scene in the first place. That was due in no
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Real Estates
The modern solution to the family car is the SUV, a jacked-up hatchback that sacrifices comfort, handling, performance, economy, weight, space, style and economy, weight, space, style and value, all in the name of about half an inch of extra ride hei
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Triumph Of Engineering
Triumph is one of Britain’s best-loved classic brands And while there are many desirable models that bear the badge, demand and limited supply mean that they’ve crept beyond the grasp of the first-time classic buyer. With Stags regularly fetching £20
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Second Chance
The MG TF. It’s just an MGF without the Hydragas, right? Wrong. Very wrong in fact. The TF – its name reviving a badg first used in the 1950s – may have looked very similar to its predecessor but it was in reality significantly different under the sk
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BMW E30 3 Series (1982-1994)
It has been said of late that BMW as a company is in a tailspin, caught off-guard by Tesla and begging the question what exactly is a BMW these days and what exactly does it do? It seems that even BMW doesn’t know as it continues to drift off course
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Staff Classics
Last month saw me signing off with the Porsche having received a new intake boot and a set of plugs but rendered immobile due to a malfunctioning aftermarket alarm/immobiliser. Having encountered 1990s alarm installations rather too many times previo
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Pillar Of Society
The XJC was always an integral part of the Jaguar XJ plan. One prototype even exists as a Series 1 – the plan was to launch the car long before its 1973 unveiling. But problems sealing the pillarless windows and a focus on the more profitable saloon
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Sales Spotlight
The Silver Shadow represented many seismic changes for Rolls-Royce, both in its engineering (unitary construction, ponton styling, fully independent and self-levelling suspension, power-hydraulic brakes and more) and in its customer base. The Shadow
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Sales Spotlight
PRICE: £14,250 Anotable omission when the V8-engined version of Rover’s pioneering P6 appeared was a manual transmission. This was released in 1971, creating the 3500S – although Rover insisted the new initial stood for ‘synchromesh’ not ‘sport’, the
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Sales Spotlight
PRICE: £8250 The Mazda MX-5 has long been a budget-f riendly option. Admittedly, the first generation is not exactly the sort of car that you’ll find in the bargain basement anymore, but there are still many examples that remain attainable. You can p
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Old Favorit
It’s not often that we get to celebrate an old Skoda here at CCM, but that it effectively marked a turning point in the story of the historic car maker makes it worth remembering. It would go on sale just a few years before the company founded by Vác

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