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The fourth Porsche 550 Spyder customer build

Porsche’s first purpose-built race car was the 550 Spyder, introduced in 1953 and instrumental in establishing the marque as a winner on the endurance racing scene. We get up close and personal with chassis 550-0020

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Road trip to Bonneville in a Porsche 356 Outlaw

A road trip to Bonneville in a 356 Outlaw — does it get much better? Well, yes, as we discovered when encountering two brothers at the end of their pilgrimage to the historic salt flats of Utah

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1967 Porsche 911 Targa soft-window by Manor Park Classics

Offering a fresh, no-nonsense approach to real-world auctions, Manor Park Classics is fast establishing itself as one of the UK’s leading classic car sales and enthusiast hubs, with special focus on air-cooled Porsches and first-time buyers


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1965 Mercedes-Benz 300SE LWB W112

The W111 and W112 Mercedes-Benz S-class helped shape the ’60s and established the firm’s legacy as a global luxury brand

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1974 Mazda RX-4 Sedan Automatic Wankel-type

Mazda RX-4 Super Smooth. Having built a reputation for technologically brilliant and inspirational design the Mazda management team, which always dared to be different, decided to take its new engine into the mainstream market and take on the fuel crisis of the early ’70s at the same time. It almost worked

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1971 Mercedes-Benz 600 W100 EFI SWB

Not content with its world class W100 restorations, Cardock Classics set about making the 600 easier to live with by developing its own electronic fuel injection system

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9.2-litre 1911 SCAT

A 9.2-litre engine and all the mod cons of an Edwardian racer make this 1911 SCAT a handful to say the least. Zack Stiling takes on the challenge of mastering it

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1970 Plymouth Barracuda

We’re often reading about people who have an ideal car in their mind, and who wait decades until that dream becomes a reality. We meet another beautiful dreamer, Tom Aspinall, and his Detroit-inspired dream from Mother Mopar…

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1960 Cadillac Sedan De Ville

Country crooner Johnny Cash famously sang about a Cadillac created by a worker at the Cadillac factory – One Piece at a Time – as he, errr… took bits of car home over a period of years to create a car… but was it a ’60 or a ’61 or a…?

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1929 Bentley Blower

Bentley’s marque-defining 1929 Blower is back, painstakingly cloned for 12 lucky customers. We drive the first one to be finished

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1951 Jaguar C-Type Goodwood track test

Our new editor relives his memorable experience behind the wheel of a storied C-type at this iconic racetrack.

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1971 Lancia Fulvia Rallye HF 1.3 and 1600 HF back to back

After driving two ultra-rare HFs – 1300 and 1600 – with uprated engines, we’re left utterly smitten by Lancia’s enchanting Fulvia coupe.

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1969 Mazda R130 Luce

Come in spinner. An oddball front-drive rotary always destined for orphanhood

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