Classic & Sports Car

Classic & Sports Car is the world's best-selling classic car magazine and the undisputed authority for all owners and enthusiasts. Whether your interest is Italian Exotica, British sports cars of the 1950s and 1960s or modern classics, every issue of Classic & Sports Car perfectly complements the sheer joy and nostalgia of owning a classic car.

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Classic & Sports Car • JUNE 2025 • VOLUME 44, NO 3

NEWDAWNFOR AN OLD FAVOURITE • Goodwood’s brilliant Members’ Meeting proved once again that the meaning of ‘historic’ is ever-changing

THE C&SC TEAM’S MM FAVOURITES

GT3 BRINGS MODERN PACE AND POWER TO SUSSEX

ANNIVERSARIES ON PARADE

DOMESTIC STARS SHINE AT ESSEN

Woodcote welcomes youthful classic enthusiasts

Smog relief in California

Championing champions

Awards lapped up

SS barn-find wows at the NEC

Williams races back to Sparkford

From the archives

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BRANDSHOSTS EQUIPEOPENER

Rain doesn’t dampen Montjuïc spirit

Bentley bags Flying Scotsman

Minis put on a show at Snetterton

Porsche pairing returns to the top in Generations Rally

Fiats on Franciacorta form

Sun shines on close Scottish classic action

Paddock profile

MERCEDES RACER BACK ON DISPLAY

A CORTINA OF QUALITY

RARE GEM POLISHES UP

AN ATYPICAL TRIO

MG SA SPECIAL RESURFACES FOR SALE

A SUNBEAM’S SLOW REVIVAL

A MUCH-LOVED MORRIS RETURNS TO THE FOLD

Look familiar? • Want to track down a lost love or looking for history on your current classic? Send details and pictures to the p9 address or email requests to alastair.clements@haymarket.com

JESÚS PRUDENCIO • Spanish illustrator whose long-running series combines his dual passions for movies and cars

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Model of the month

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Simon TAYLOR

Martin BUCKLEY

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Pedant of the month • Pedant of the month wins a C&SC baseball cap. Send your observations to alastair.clements@haymarket.com

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ROLL OF THUNDER • Transatlantic power play, as Ford Mustang GT faces MG XPower SV

The CARS are the STARS • Turn on, tune in and belt up for our high-speed tour around the greatest movie cars and the films that made each of them famous

ASTON MARTIN DB5

FORD MUSTANG 390 GT

VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 1200

AUSTIN MINI COOPER ‘S’

PONTIAC FIREBIRD TRANS AM

DE LOREAN DMC-12

SUBARU IMPREZA WRX

Cars… Camera… Action! • From silver-screen veterans to outrageous stunts, with incredible CGI or painstaking realism, cars have long held audiences captive

PROMOTING CARS AT THE CINEMA

MERCURY RISING • This movie-star Mercury Cougar was driven by Mrs-Bond-to-be before reappearing on the Essex muscle-car scene, and has now been fully revived

THE ONLY WAY WAS ESSEX

CUT TO THE CHASE • Stunt drivers are the unsung heroes of the action movie business. Here, they reveal the tricks of their trade

Glamour model • This Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III Park Ward Drophead Coupé was as much a star of the louche, Swinging Sixties film Blow-Up as its lead actor

A LABOUR of LOAF • Aardman Animations has been playfully subverting the movie-car concept since the first Wallace & Gromit in ’89. This unique Austin A35 pays homage to its work

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