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Classic & Sports Car • OCTOBER 2025 • VOLUME 44, NO7

YOUNG GUNS PRAISE THE PROSAIC • The Festival of the Unexceptional welcomed the quirky and once common for its annual retro motoring celebration

AND THE WINNER IS…

THE C&SC TEAM’S FOTU FAVOURITES

TORPEDO RISES TO THE TOP AT PEBBLE

Quail crowns Ferrari racer

New flavours of Lemon aid

IROC thunder rolls around Laguna Seca

The DVLA responds to classic industry pressure

Stirling’s inaugural win remembered

Oxfordshire hosts Stuttgart Mega meet

Vintage variety pack in Sussex

Classics on the Riviera

Historic exhibition returns to Kent

Berkshire classics assemble

OBITUARY

Alliance update

OBITUARIES

LEGENDS DEFY IMOLA RAIN

Historics in action at Oulton Park

Minis amass at Brands Hatch for a Festival of fun

Wales hosts rallycross heroes

Paddock profile

Teamwork pays off for East Anglian endurance challenge

Porsches prevail in the Finnish forests

Climbers keep it in the family

E-TYPE STARS IN ECLECTIC SALE

FIRST TO THE FORE

SCIMITAR GT IN NEED OF LOVE SURFACES NORTH OF THE BORDER

UNCOVERING AN AC’S SWISS STORY

SURPRISE CRX MAKES A TOP SWAP

A G15 AWAITS RESTORATION

MULTICOLOURED OPAL WITH A MYSTERY PAST

Look familiar?

JOHN A FRYE • This American industrial designer creates spectacular retro dream machines as a hobby

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OPEN AND SHUT CASE • The evolution of the 911 targa, Porsche’s all-weather sports car

The sincerest form of flattery • Former Mazda product planner Bob Hall tells the very personal story of the British roadsters that inspired the most successful sports car of all time

Best foot forward • Raymond Loewy’s Studebaker Avanti brought revolutionary style to the American motoringlandscape

MY WEEK IN CARS

SECRET MILLIONAIRES • Our intrepid reporter goes undercover with the Supercar Driver club to meet the owners who feel the need for speed

Return of the space cowboy • Texas meets astronautics in the story of this remarkably original Shelby Cobra 289 that was fastidiously preserved by a NASA engineer

THE THIRD WAY • Ford’s Capri had the everyday coupé market sewn up before Vauxhall waded in with its Firenza. And then Toyota’s Celica arrived…

Auntie’s glad rags • Pinin Farina styling and Mulliner build quality turned Rover’s staid P4 into a glamourous cabriolet

“I’ve been at it a long time. I’m just about getting the hang of it” • Racing-car designer Mike Pilbeam has been successful across various formulae, but is self-effacing to a fault – and he’s still hard at work

Bodies of evidence • Wolseley’s Hornet Special helped democratise coachbuilt exclusivity, from the likes of Eustace Watkins, Corsica and Whittingham & Mitchel

FINS AIN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE • America’s fashion for tailfins found its way across the Atlantic. Here are our finest flashy-tailed...