Michael Fisher

F1, round two

JORDAN BUTTERS McLAREN MAY HAVE been swathed in

FEATURING

BEN BARRY ‘Ron Dennis talked me round the

IGNITION

EVENTS + NEWS + OPINION

COMING UP…

Good luck deciding how best to spend your next few weekends; May is shaping up to be one heck of a month

New guidelines issued for the electrification of classics

Latest HCVA directive seeks to clarify the legal and physical dangers of converting your car

NEWS FEED

Scandi concours launched Scandinavia is to have a

Hope springs eternal

Drive a dream classic to raise vital cash for Africa

Real highlights of Cheshire

Superb line-up promised for Concours d’Esprit

1936 Austin Seven Ruby

Classic car sales specialist James Wheeler tracked down his dad’s old Austin

JAY LENO

The Collector

DEREK BELL

The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY

The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER

The Driver

Djet for a real-life rocketman

Letter of the month IN GLEN WADDINGTON’S excellent

OCTANE CARS

OWNING + DRIVING + MAINTAINING

Of mice and AA men

1955 JAGUAR XK140

Spring sale

1963 TRIUMPH TROPHY TR6SS

Going Continental

1986 FORD SIERRA RS COSWORTH

Cactus flowers

1965 TRIUMPH 2.5 PI

Barrel of fun

1997 PEUGEOT 306 GTI-6

OTHER NEWS

‘The Moretti 850 is being recommissioned by DTR

OVERDRIVE

Other interesting cars we’ve been driving

Aston’s latest goes topless

2024 ASTON MARTI N DB12 V OLANTE

The useful Porsche

2024 PORSCHE CAYENNE

John Paul Jr

The meteoric rise and tragic freefall of an American idol who had the world at his feet

The Phone Book

Once a staple of every home, now heading the way of Berni Inns and Blockbuster

A Hewitt to woo

How buying and restoring a Seiko 6139 can be more rewarding, and a lot less risky, than owning a Patek Philippe Nautilus

Tissot Seastar

The Navigator chrono’s underpriced three-handed cousin

Seventies Motor Racing

FRANCO LINI with DOUG NYE, Palawan Press, £400

An Austin Anthology III

JAMES STRINGER, Veloce, £19.99, ISBN 978 1 787116 50 4

Alfa Romeo, an Illustrated History 1910-2010

Schiffer Publishing, £59.99, ISBN 978 0 764367 30 4

Fast Fords

JEREMY WALTON, Evro Publishing, £60, ISBN 978 1 910505 83 0

One Formula 50 Years of Car Design

GORDON MURRAY with PHILIP PORTER, Porter Press International, 2019, value £1750

Powered by Gibson

MARK COLE, Porter Press, £40, ISBN 978 1 913089 65 8

Ferrari 330 GTC

MAURICE KHAWAM, MAK Group Books, $575 from makgroupbooks.com

1952 MERCEDES-BENZ 300SL

It’s said that in the second half of

BMW 1600GT

Think of Belgium and it’s chocolates rather than

The Market

BU YING + SELLING + ANALYSIS

Subaru Legacy 3.0R spec.B

Now we know what’s happened with Impreza Turbos, time to find another prospect

THE LOWDOWN

WHAT TO PAY Prices for well-used early cars

VOLCANIC ACTIVITY

Ben Barry was present at the McLaren 12C’s launch. 15 years on, he revisits this game-changing supercar and discovers F1 performance for rather less than £17m

McLAREN

EVERYTHING SINCE THE 12C

MODERN HYPERCARS

MARKET BUSTERS

WHITE CHARGER

This most Germanic of motor cars has a particularly British back story, as Mark Dixon finds out

RALLYE LES BLEUS

Few cars are as rewardingly intimate to drive as an Alpine A110, or as successful in rallying. Richard Heseltine gets to grips with the marque’s own recce car on a Portuguese stage

Keith Helfet

The man who shaped the legendary Jaguar XJ220 supercar should have been famous for even more. Richard Heseltine finds out why

BITING BACK

It needed an 8.0-litre V10 for the job, but it did what no other brand has managed since: it annihilated the Porsche 911 in GT racing. Octane takes to the track in the Viper GTS-R

THE ANNIVERSARY WALTZ

From Mumbai to Abingdon in a 1950 YT Tourer: three generations of one family’s epic MG centenary drive

THE ONE AND ONLY

After shying away from the limelight for decades, the unique 1959 Maserati 3500 GT Bertone took a bow at Pebble Beach last year. Massimo Delbò gets behind the wheel