Your Cars Special Featuring 34 classics of all shapes and sizes from all over Britain, it’s a feast for the eyes!

Resto Hero: Triumph TR250 From rusty wreck to concours, this is probably the most perfect restored TR250 in the world. 

Five Buyer Many classic legends were born in 1948. Here’s how to buy one.

Datsun 240Z A lifetime ambition realised and a two-decade project finished.

Team Adventure: Winter Warmers The PC team picks its sub-£1k classics and gets them ready for another epic adventure.

Group Test: Super Coupés Our pick of the best sub-£3k classic coupés to buy now.

A Cup of Tea With... Bron Burrell, planning to polish off the 1970 World Cup Rally in her Maxi.

Supersonic 1969 Test Aston Martin V8, Bristol 411 and Ford Capri take on Concorde.

Merc-Benz CL Buying Guide Shop smart and follow expert advice to bag this luxury cruiser.

Resto Heroes Andrew Small’s epic E-type project came to fruition just in time thanks to a little help from his friends.

Team Adventure: Chevette HS at 40 Danny Hopkins takes the mighty Chevette on a blast to Shepreth.

Buying Guide: Alfa Spider What you need to know before you buy this little sports car.

MG Maestro Reader Resto Brought back to life, this Maestro Turbo restoration is truly superb.

Triple Buyer Richard Bremner looks at three iconic GTs with shared DNA and tells us why to buy one now.

Bangernomics The PC team had £200 to spend on a modern classic for daily use. Find out what they chose.

Big Restoration: Opel Manta Neil Boylan’s sight-unseen purchase gave him plenty of welding practice.

Buying Guide: Peugeot 306 How to buy this underrated little French go-kart.

Bangernomics Challenge James Walshe attempts to get home from the south of France.

Big Restoration: Austin Apache Rare African beauty brought back from the brink of extinction.

Team Adventure We celebrate 50 years since the formation of British Leyland with an epic road trip. 

BMW Z4 buying guide Everything you need to know before you buy one.

The Real Grand Tour The PC team embarks on a 1700-mile journey around Britain with Footman James in a bid to find the ultimate classic destination.

Buick Resto When Gerry couldn’t buy the parts he needed for his Buick Roadmaster, he decided to just make them himself.

Memory Lane A scene of holiday joy and colourful classics in deepest Dorset.

The Big Picture Celebrating 70 years of the Minor and 2CV before we head to Paris.

BMW Restoration A stunning restoration by an incredibly interesting man to whom it is a lasting tribute.

A Cup of Tea With… Austin Rover’s Howard Musgrove discusses his Longbridge years.

Big Resto Spitfire When the bodyshop said ‘No’, Andy Baron said ‘Yes’, restoring this wreck to perfection.

Buying Guide: Porsche 911 (996) All you need to know before you buy a water-cooled 911. 

PC Show in Review The PC team round up their best bits from the show. What was yours? 

Ask Our Experts Your classic woes answered by our expert panel.

Engine Autopsy Danny’s Riley RMA engine strewn acorss the workshop.

Staff Car Sagas Read the latest progress on the PC team’s projects.

Bangernomics: Merc Off The PC team buy old Mercs, then can’t decide which is best. 

Big Restoration: Rovermaker Gerry Lloyd built a Rover 75 coupé because Rover didn’t.

Classic vs Retro We ask whether a modern car with retro design can ever capture the magic of the original.

Winter Warmers The PC team have prepared their budget classics, now they head north to (hopefully) conquer Yorkshire.

Rover P6 Guide Don’t buy a Rover P6 until you’ve read our handy guide.

John Simister John was restrained in terms of the number of classic goodies he put on his Christmas list.

Classic News Latest on the PC Restoration & Classic Car Show, plus a Britain’s Best Classic Destination update.

Staff Car Sagas What the PC team have been up to on their projects, including final Winter Warmers preparations.

Big Resto Cortina What does it really take to restore a classic car to concours standard? 

Cup of Tea with… PC has a cuppa with BL design legend, Harris Mann.

Classic News Is it now time to scrap vehicle scrappage schemes? And it’s the last call for classic destination votes.

Brit Sports Cars vs GTIs British sports car classics face up to their new kid on the block GTI rivals. 

Sam Glover Our Sam goes to a banger race and comes away with a positive opinion.

Buying Fiat 500 They may be small, but there’s still a lot to check.

Clubs & Events Places to go, people to see: We show you the very best events to attend in the coming weeks and months. 

Resto Hero Sunbeam Alpine This sporty blue Rootesmobile was bought for £150. Just look at it now – back on the road and gleaming!

Your Cars From an Impish trio to a Blue MGB, by way of a South African Peugeot 505. It’s all about the variety here.

Memory Lane Royalty rocks up in 1966 to open one of the greatest bridges in Britain.

Classic News Scrappage outrage, what to see at the NEC and more. 

Resto Hero Ford Cortina A friendship bloomed when Kevin considered giving up on this resto.

Daily Driver: Avantime What’s Renault’s most bonkers car like to live with every day?

Rust In Peace Rusting beauties left standing in line on rotten row.

Classic News What does the divisive rolling MoT exemption mean for you?

My High Miler Mega-mile Peugeot 205 GTi is very much a ‘keeper’. 

Sam Glover Sam and Ed journey to Georgia to savour a Volga experience. 

Weekend Workshop Save a fortune on a professional re-trim and replace your seats’ cloth inserts at home.

Resto Heroes: Nova Sean Kell’s Nova Sport is a work of art – impressive going for just three weeks of graft.

The Big Picture Citroën’s greatest hydropneumatic hits, altogether at last.

Memory Lane Brighton your day with a thirty year-old memory.

The High Mile Club A quarter of a million miles by Lotus Elise? We can’t think of many things that would be more fun!

Granada Ghia X Resto Andrew Hunter has finally realised his Granada dream.

Letters and X-word Your time to shine. It’s always great to hear from you. Crossword too... 

Sam Glover Sam says just leave things be! Modifications shouldn’t be necessary.

My High Miler A Renault 16 with 270k miles on the clock and 37 years with one owner.

Your Cars Special The wondeful people and awesome cars that we met on our great British cafe adventure.

Spotted Fiat 127s, Volgas and even an amphibious Amphicar have been spied this issue. 

Bangernomics Danny’s dad’s new Jag, Theo’s trusty Focus and Sam’s nippy Honda. 

Staff Car Sagas Danny’s dailies, Matt’s Triumphant trip to Spa, and fuelling issues for the DS.

Nick Larkin - Nick is worries about local and national heritage.

John Simister - John reminisces about days gone by, and fun and frolics with a baby MG.

Sam Glover - Sam reaches fettling nirvana with a German workshop in Cirencester and more...

Me and My Classics We’ve a hunch that there’s one car in particular that the Turners like… Triumph’s wedge-tastic TR7.

Rust in Peace More tales from rotten row. Would you save these languishing classics? 

Clubs & Events We show you where you need to be this weekend – and why not make that a national rally?

Shed Hero Man cave full of Yank tanks turns a car-tinkering hobby into a flourishing business.

Your Cars Where every car has a story to tell, and every owner cherishes it. Tales of restoration, runs and reliability.

Nick Larkin Nick emplores clubs to be better at record keeping... or face oblivion.

Sam Glover Sam is convinced that his own car collection is far from excessive.

Triumph Roadster Resto With plenty of challenges to overcome, two mates spent 10 years recreating perfection.

Team Adventure Guy Loveridge and Steve Berry shakedown their restored Austin on the Longbridge test route.

Nick Larkin Nick Larkin laments the loss of Longbridge and worries for its future.

Workshop Basics Our in-depth guide to safe starting after a lay-up.

New Kit-We’ve got plenty of new goodies to tempt you and your wallet,

Five Fab First Classics-We’ve identified five first classics to suit a variety of budgets,

How to Buy a Classic-Don’t buy a classic car until you’ve read our special buying guide, and much more!!!

Including an Earls Court Crusader and a pre-production Stag,

Mercedes SL Resto This twice-abandoned project is finally restored to perfection,

Memory Lane A Regent Street traffic jam from 1960 takes us back in time, and much more!!

The Big Picture We launch our search to find Britain’s best transport cafe,

Clubs & Events Lowdown on the biggest NEC show ever, plus news from the archives,

Spotted Everything from a Transit MkI to a Riley RMA… pickup!, and much more!!!

The Big Picture: Happy 30th birthday XJ40! Fans and owners congregate at launch venue.

Morris Minor Hearse: The world's least likely funeral car - and it works for a living.

Spirit of 1966: Ford's 50-year-old Cortina takes on Rootes's Arrow. Which was best?...

The Big Picture BMW is celebrating 100 years, and has an impressive history,
Classic News Heroes and Heroines to go on display at the NEC in November,
Letters One reader provides sympathy for Danny’s MG woes, and much more!!

The Big Picture Heroes and heroines is the theme for the NEC. Donald Cambell’s our hero, Classic News Birthday celebrations from the MMOC to Beaulieu and a little-known Vauxhall anniversary, Spotted Lots of rare metal spotted while you’ve been on your holidays, Triumph Spitfire Resto Vince strove for perfection with his once-rusty Spitfire, and much more!!!

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 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.
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