Classic Cars

Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine. It defined the world of classic motoring 40 years ago and still does it today. Every issue is put together by our team of classic car experts and enthusiasts. Using the best expert writing and photography, the magazine helps you experience what it's like to drive, keep and restore the classic cars of days gone by. We bring the stories and people behind the cars to life - showing you how to buy, keep and enjoy your cars. Every issue of Classic Cars is packed with: - Road tests - Drive stories - Expert buying advice - News and events coverage Classic Cars is the original classic car magazine.

Welcome • Despite the rarefied world it was born into, the Jensen Interceptor and FF have held a stronger position in the public consciousness than pure build numbers justify

‘I feel like a gentleman on a mission!’ • Classic Cars reader Richard Gotch grew up with a poster of an Alvis on his bedroom wall. Will a drive in a special coachbuilt TD21 live up to its promise of speed and glamour?

Tuscan Speed Six gets moving • Can this under-the-radar road rocket finally match its price to its performance?

Old Fords meet in the middle • Recent sales suggest the humble cars rise higher while the icons slide back a little

Reborn Countach leads in Italy • Will the moderns make headlines, or is there life in the old darlings at Villa d’Este?

Celebrity ownership: does it matter? • Does star ownership really affect forecasted car sales prices?

Under new management • Retro Classics Essen picked up where Techno Classica left off, bringing its own flavour

Ronnie’s rockets land at Salon Privé • Ex-Peterson BMWs add wild colour to London event

May-June highlights • New racing events bring the summer in

Pegasus trots from the stables • Two examples of very rare Nineties British luxury sports car found in France and UK

Ready, steady, drive! • Dust off your classic car and hit the open road this spring. Every issue of Classic Cars magazine delivers the most inspirational stories of pursuing, owning, driving, restoring and living with outstanding cars of the past.

TOP 50 GRAND TOURERS • Experts name the icons of effortless performance and style

Where’s my old Grifo?

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JULIAN THOMSON • To truly understand a brand I’m designing for, I like to go full method-actor and buy an iconic model from its past. Sometimes that doesn’t work out so well…

ALEX RILEY • The well-received arrival of the new Honda Prelude made me yearn for those splendid days when most manufacturers offered at least one affordable coupé

MAKING PROGRESS • 60 years ago, the tiny Jensen firm unleashed the Interceptor and its FF sibling on an unsuspecting world. We drive one of Jensen’s original FF press cars and discover what made these definitive GTs irresistable to captains of industry and celebrities alike

BUSINESS CLASS • The Interceptor had proved to be a favourite among corporate highfliers, so as the Sixties drew to close, Jensen enterprisingly sought to offer a version especially tailored to the successful executive

‘THERE WAS NO HIDING THE FACT THAT IT WAS AN OLD CAR’ • Richard Gotch was the very last PR man for the Kelvin Way-based Jensen concern. He reveals the passion and the chaos surrounding the Interceptor’s last days, and recalls what might have been

SPOTTER’S GUIDE • The Jensen Interceptor and FF evolved subtly but frequently during its turbulent 26-year lifespan. Here, we track the key changes

‘Anything that could deteriorate, had done’ • The opportunity to restore a very early Land Rover Discovery was too hard to resist for lifelong marque fan and specialist Dan Clark – but was the car...