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 • MAY 2026 • VOLUME 45, NO 2

FIT FOR A MAHARAJA • The Oberoi Concours d’Elegance is a spectacle of India’s finest cars blending majestic history with new enthusiasm

HONOURS SHARED IN FLORIDA

The cars are the stars

Segrave’s LSR centenerary celebrated in Southport

ModaMiami glamour defies the epic downpours

Delage finishes on top Down Under

Racing icons take to the ice

OBITUARIES

From the archives

CLUBMANS KICKSOFF

Davies on top of East Riding asphalt

VSCC horde flocks to John Harris Trial

Blacker blasts to Three Legs of Mann victory

Spain hosts revised historics

Paddock profile

ALIFE SPENT COLLECTING

DEUTSCH FORD IS AIRED

LAGONDAJOB LOT

ALLOY XK120 SEEKS ITS NEXT CUSTODIAN

EARLY MORRIS IS UNEARTHED

JOWETT’S RESTORATION TO COME ANOTHER DAY

Look familiar? • Want to track down a lost love or looking for history on your current classic? Send details and pictures to the p7 address or email requests to alastair.clements@haymarket.com

VAL BIRO • Hungarian-born creator of a much-loved children’s character, whose storytelling matched his artistry

Book of the month

Model of the month

Pick of the month

Mick WALSH

Simon TAYLOR

Martin BUCKLEY

Letter of the month

BEST FOOT FORWARD • How to buy a top example of Citroën’s pioneering Traction Avant

Astonishing • There’s no other word for it, when you realise what you get for your money by opting for a DB9, the model that led Aston Martin’s reinvention

ENIGMA MACHINE • Once known simply as the ‘Question Mark’, the Felcom Special can lay claim to being the oldest Portuguese-built car

Back to front • The rear-wheel-drive Hillman Imp family tackled the front-engined Mini range head-on, with a model to suit every taste and pocket

Varnishing act • By the early 1950s, America was turning its back on ‘woodies’, but Buick’s stylish Estate Wagons maintained a keen following

‘This might be the most difficult car you could hand to a learner driver’ • Citroën’s twin-engined 2CV Sahara was an overly ambitious foray into the 4x4 market best remembered as an eccentricity too far, too soon

Knockout called before time • The Triumph TR8 won American hearts, yet the plug was pulled despite its full potential being quietly realised by British Leyland Motorsport

TRIUMPHS OVER ADVERSITY • The oft-maligned TR7 and TR8 inspired tuners, racers and creative free-thinkers. Here are 10 of the best

In Tadek’s wheeltracks • A team of Polish enthusiasts sets out to highlight their country’s motoring history with an epic drive in an Opel Olympia

Turning an occasion into an Eventer • Coachbuilder Lynx turned Jaguar’s XJ-S coupé into an elegant and practical shooting brake, but only one got the full TWR treatment

THE LIFE OF WALK • Tom Walkinshaw Racing achieved great success on both road and track. Cars and former employees gather at Bicester to mark 50 years of the extraordinary firm

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