3/13/2024

Classic Car Buyer

Britain's leading weekly newspaper for classic car enthusiasts

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Product Picks
Mini Spares is now offering a chrome exterior handle kit that combines the Mk3-on door handles with the Mk1-style bootlid handle, a set-up that was fitted to early Mk3 cars from 1969 to around 1971, but is also ideal for creating a retro look. Order
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Hcva Introduces Standards For Electric Classics
The Historic & Classic Vehicles Alliance (HCVA) has introduced Minimum Professional Standards for conversion of classic vehicles from internal combustion to electric drivetrains. The Bicester trade organisation’s aim is to provide companies with a ch
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Le Mans Star To Headline Porsche Sale
An exclusive Porsche-only auction is to take place in partnership with the first-ever Air|Water standalone event on April 27 in Costa Mesa, California. The event is the brainchild of Patrick Long, who is well-known and respected in the Porsche world,
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Gaydon Diary Dates
Such is the packed nature of the British Motor Museum’s event calendar, we missed a few from our diary printed in the February 28 issue. The Old Ford Rally will take place at the Gaydon venue on July 21, along with the Rootes Heritage Festival on the
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Berger’s Ferrari Found
A fast car has made a slow return, with the news that a Ferrari F512M owned by former F1 star Gerhard Berger has been discovered by the Metropolitan Police after being lost nearly three decades ago. It was one of two Ferraris reported missing after t
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Fbhvc’s Magazine Renamed
The Federation of Historic Vehicle Clubs has a new title for its quarterly magazine – Historic. Distributed to member organisations and individual supporters, the magazine is packed with information from the Federation’s membership of over 500 histor
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Fiesta Survivor At Auction
Dublin classic car dealer David Golding has uncovered a timewarp Mk3 Ford Fiesta that’s covered just 6000 miles from new. The 1991 1.1 C automatic model was sold new by Sligo Ford main dealer Hendersons to a lady in Donegal, who used it sparingly unt
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Welcome
Being no great fan of early sunsets, cold temperatures and gritted roads, I spend the whole of winter eagerly awaiting warmer weather. When compiling our recent 2024 events guide – see our February 28 issue – that anticipation only grew. With the exc
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Historic Site To Cease Car Production
SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER AT WWW.CLASSICSWORLD.CO.UK Jaguar’s historic Castle Bromwich site looks to have reached the end of the line as a car production facility. The Birmingham site, originally used to build Spitfires and Lancaster bombers during t
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Jaguar Concept Made Road Legal
A Jaguar concept car which starred in the 007 movie Spectre has been reworked and made road legal by its original designer, Ian Callum, and is set to be displayed at the next Scramble event at Bicester Heritage on April 21. Ian Callum led the team wh
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The Big Picture
While on a recent trip to Monaco (more on that in a future issue!), Editor Jeff spotted these two prestige classics. The green Ferrari is a 365 GT 2+2, while behind is one of our old favourites - a Bentley Turbo R. It’s always fun to play car spottin
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New Petrolhead Venue To Open
Caffeine & Machine’s new venue, The Hut, is set to open its doors this Sunday (March 17), becoming the third C&M venue following The Hill in Warwickshire, which opened in 2018, and The Bowl in Bedfordshire, which was opened last year. The location fo
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Review Historics, March 2
The first Historics sale of 2024 at Ascot Racecourse brought together a wide variety of classics to suit all budgets, from concours level restorations to honest survivors and tempting projects. A remarkable 185 lots went under the hammer, with some r
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Two Worlds Collide
Many cite the R8 200/400 as Rover’s peak. It followed in the footsteps of the Triumph Acclaim and previous ‘SD3’ Rover 200 in being jointly developed by Honda, but offered a far sharper, modernised look and managed to shake off the staid image of its
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Exceeding Expectations
Living in an age where every new car seems to require headline-making power figures to even get a look-in – an electric Kia SUV now has over 200bhp – it’s refreshing to look back on cars that didn’t need to make claims of supercar-troubling performan
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Slick Shifter
Shifting gears oneself was rarely, if ever done in a 1990s Jaguar. Manuals were available, but seldom specified: with the arrival of the S-Type 3.0 V6 in 1999, buyers were looking at the first all-new manual Jaguar sports saloon for more than a decad
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Continental Class
The 1960s was a particularly important decade for BMW, with the well-received ‘Neue Klasse’ saloon range carrying on from the 700 in rescuing the company from serious financial trouble and setting it on the road to prosperity. But there was still roo
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Classic Scenes
Not much information is known about this week’s step back in time, other than it’s the UK in the early ’70s. The Vauxhall Victor four cars from the front is an FE model, suggesting it’s at least as late as 1972, while the Landcrab at the very front l
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High Five
Launching in 1972 and surviving for 12 years, the first-generation Renault 5 proved to be a major success, with almost 5.5 million sold. Unlike the Fiat 127 and most later rivals, the Renault employed a longitudinally-mounted engine, but in every oth
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Model Timeline Renault 5
1972 - Renault 5 announced to the press on January 28 and put on sale in March. French-spec 782cc L version not imported; TL version uses 956cc engine. Right-hand drive British-market cars available from September. 1973 - Dash-mounted gear lever repl
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Triumph Tr5
When people mourn the loss of the traditional sports cars of yesteryear, the Triumph TR line comes into conversation more than most. Of that lineage, it’s the TR5 that gets perhaps the most admiration, something the 1969 TR5 offered by specialist TRG
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Insurance Quote
Quotation supplied by Lancaster Insurance Web: lancasterinsurance.co.uk | Tel: 01480 809176 Example quote: 1989 Renault 5 1.7 Monaco, £3000 value Quote based on a 45-year-old marketing manager, access to another car, no claims or convictions, club me
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Or Maybe…?
If the curvaceous Michelotti styling isn’t for you but you like the idea of the TR5, maybe the Karmann-styled TR6 is for you. Mechanically very similar to the TR5 but clothed in that handsome and arguably more muscular body, the TR6 offers much of th
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Rover Mini Flame
There were so many limited-edition Minis launched in the later years that it can be hard to keep up with what each of them offered, but the Flame Red was one of the better efforts. This 1990 example is one of the later cars (there was also a 1989 bat
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FORD FIESTA Mk3 1.4 FREESTYLE
We always love seeing examples of once-common cars that’ve gone extinct, surviving in remarkably original condition. RFH Classics’ Mk3 Fiesta Freestyle is just such a car, a model prone to rotting away following a life of abuse, yet available here wi
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GROUP EDITOR PAUL WAGER EDITOR JEFF RUGGLES DEPUTY EDITOR JOE MILLER DIGITAL CONTENT EDITOR JAMES HOWE Chris Randall, Sam Skelton, Jon Burgess, Dan Williamson, Paul Jackson HEAD OF INVESTMENT David Hennessey 01732 446727 davidh@talk-media.uk Chief Op
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Last Orders
Glen Mason, a Sunbeam Rapier owner and driver for nearly 50 years, made contact following the Classic Choice feature in our February 14 issue, which pitched the Rapier against the Mk1 Capri and Opel Manta A. “It was good to see a Rapier featured and
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Next Week
We take a look at the cars that opted for five cylinders rather than the regular four- or six-pot layouts, from the Mercedes W115 to the Mk2 Ford Focus ST. The Jaguar Mk2 unlocked the potential of its Mk1 predecessor and turned it from a modest succe

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