Practical Classics

Practical Classics magazine has a 30-year tradition of delivering the very best, hands-on classic car experiences to its readers. Every staff writer and contributor works on and restores their own classics. Each issue is packed with: * Rigorous buying advice * Real-world product tests * Inspirational classic driving features * Fascinating historical insight Practical Classics is also a campaigning title, taking the concerns of classic car owners to Parliament and keeping its readers' classics where they belong - on the road. So come and join PC in the workshop - the kettle's on.

WELCOME TO THE WORKSHOP

Biggest and best ever • NEC Classic is back with a bang to pre-Covid levels of popularity

Starting HANDLE

Lanolin starter kit £39.90

Hammond opens new museum

NEWS IN 5 PICS

DON’T MISS NEXT ISSUE! • Come with us as we create a brand new classic driving route in the Highlands… the PC 150

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NEWS IN BRIF…

Charity HEROES

Help to weld a Spitty

NEWS IN BRIEF…

JODY’S MIDGET

Great Temptations • Abumper selection of great new stuff this month – what will you be tempted by?

CLUBS EVENTS

MEMORY LANE

THE ITALIAN JOB • Danny Hopkins heads for Italy, retracing Charlie’s footsteps in a classic Mini

YOUR SHOUT

JOHN HUMPHRYS • Broadcasting legend, prolific author and stellar journalist, John is many things – but a car man? No. And yet…

YOUR CARS • The classics you love, drive and restore

SPOTTED

‘I’ve done quite a lot to this one’ • Clive Davies bought a Subaru from his brother for £500 – now it’s a 416bhp masterpiece

A TRiumph in every way • Dave Lowden never got to finish his first TR restoration – so, second time around, there was no way he was going to be defeated

‘Epic jaunts for more than 20 years!’

‘The best trips are the ones you don’t plan’ • James talks of the detours we didn’t expect to make

MG & TRIUMPH

‘Reliability is the crux of any good road trip’

RUST IN PEACE • What have we found in the brambles and barns this month?

MARKETPLACE

CITROËN DS • Owning one of these needn’t be a rich person’s game, explains James Walshe

LANCASTER

HANDBUILT HEROES • We choose between four cars that exemplify British specialist car making at its best

‘Spannering clever’

FIRST OF THE LINE

CLEVER MONEY CARS

ENDANGERED SPECIES • Once on every corner, now seldom seen

ASTON MARTIN DB7 • 1994-2004 James Walshe gets under the surface of this jaw-dropping Aston

‘Rover goes Beauly to Beaulieu’ • Highlands to the New Forest? No problem!

Back at the front • Kettle on... time for some tall tales from the PC workshop

Machine Mart

Bjorn to run • Is the finish line in sight for James’s Saab? Er, no

On the right track • Matt learns what’s needed to turn a road car into a racer

Boxing clever • Time to give Danny’s Javelin some quieter cogs

ASK OUR EXPERTS

Deep clean your classic’s interior • Rich shows you how to get your inside clean (and keep it that way)

Triumph Stag • Kim Henson demonstrates how to care for your Michelotti-styled V8 tourer at home.

Solve rod knock • Emily Cook’s Minor has arattle. Matt Tomkins reveals the solution

‘This will be my first car’ • But only if she can complete the restoration before next September!