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HCVA notes future threats
December 2024
|Classic & Sports Car
Difficulties insuring electric-converted cars, meeting net-zero emissions targets and repairing old electronics were the three future threats identified by the Historic & Classic Vehicles Alliance on 3 October - but not without a message of opportunity.
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The classic car industry association held its third Heritage Matters Insight Day at Jaguar Land Rover Classic, near Coventry, with speakers from the DVLA and Parliament addressing its members, plus other industry specialists.
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اشترك في Magzter GOLD للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة، وأكثر من 9000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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Classic & Sports Car
Mick WALSH
The journey, as much as the destination, is a key part of any road trip, as proved on one of my greatest motoring experiences, the 1991 Carrera Panamericana revival. As copiloto to 'Julio Balmez' in his Lincoln Cosmopolitan, 'Wooly Bully', the journey to the start and back to Los Angeles had highlights to match the surreal rally from Tuxtla Gutiérrez to Ciudad Juárez.
2 mins
February 2026
Classic & Sports Car
COLLECTORS AND RACERS STAR IN SPAIN
AutoClassic Alcañiz marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Aragonese town's former street track, Circuito Guadalope, during the 28th edition of the indoor show, which returned to Feria Alcañiz exhibition centre from 12-14 December.
6 mins
February 2026
Classic & Sports Car
PAUL CAMERON
This design specialist has channelled his creative talent into automotive art, with dramatic results
2 mins
February 2026
Classic & Sports Car
Simon TAYLOR
Ever since the inelegant term 'restomod' emerged in the USA in the 1990s, it has been hung on a great variety of cars: from over-lowered, over-wheeled café showoffs to beautifully engineered developments of the original, such as those Eagle E-types that can cost you half a million quid.
2 mins
February 2026
Classic & Sports Car
Martin BUCKLEY
In early spring 2025, the time came, for various reasons, to 'get out of Dodge'. But where to go? Somewhere warm with lots of old cars, ideally, so I could continue earning a living. My friend John had been regaling me for years with tales of Palm Springs: of desert scrapyards full of sun-bleached, rot-free British gems; of living in a condo with a pool, in a place where you could ogle daily-driven classics under endless blue skies while indulging a passion for architecture – or drown your sorrows at Polynesian-themed tiki bars. So I made hasty arrangements, packed a bag and was on the next plane, under instruction from my 82-year-old mum to “bloody behave”.
2 mins
February 2026
Classic & Sports Car
Two's a party
Alejandro de Tomaso not only redefined Maserati for the next two decades with the 1982 Biturbo, but also introduced the world to twin turbocharging
10 mins
February 2026
Classic & Sports Car
ELECTRON IS REBORN FOR THE ROAD
Air Vice Marshal DCT ‘Pathfinder’ Bennett had an extraordinary career, first in the Royal Air Force and then in commercial aviation after that, before becoming a Member of Parliament. Rather than retire into obscurity, he then started to make cars under the Fairthorpe name in rural Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. After a limited run of a microcar called the Atom there was a four-wheeler called the Atomota, which became the Atom Major. Following the arrival of the Coventry Climax 1098cc engine, Fairthorpe took a modified Atomota chassis and produced a desirable sports car called the Electron, but the high cost of the motor made the car uncompetitive in the marketplace.
1 mins
February 2026
Classic & Sports Car
FORD SIERRA RS COSWORTH
The Ford Sierra RS Cosworth's British credentials are upheld here, not because of where the base car was manufactured – its assembly plant was in Genk, Belgium – but rather by its UK-led conception and powertrain development for this iconic high-performance model. That's important because, before the RS Cosworth's launch at the Geneva Salon in '85, the only turbocharged production cars of note that had emerged from Blighty were the MG Metro Turbo in 1983 and its MG Montego Turbo sibling, along with a gaggle of blown M-series TVRs. Prior to that, British buyers' limited exposure to turbocharging had come in the form of the left-hooker-only BMW 2002 turbo and Saab's 99, plus the exotic Porsche 911.
4 mins
February 2026
Classic & Sports Car
Brawn with a silver spoon
To some at Crewe the idea of a hopped up Mulsanne went against all the firm stood for, but the Turbo R would save Bentley's bacon
8 mins
February 2026
Classic & Sports Car
A STORED SCIMITAR WITH A STRANGE FACE
Of the 1006 examples built of the original Reliant Scimitar SE4 coupé, some 705 survivors are known to the Reliant Sabre and Scimitar Owners’ Club. Martin O’Sullivan has a 1967 example, registered NAR 261D. He had been working on a building site at Bicester in 1975 when one of his colleagues put the word out that his sports car was for sale, because he wanted to raise money for a mortgage. When he said it was a Reliant most lost interest, thinking that it was a three-wheeler, but Martin was bowled over by the car and bought it for £350.
2 mins
February 2026
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