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IGNITION • EVENTS + NEWS + OPINION

COMING UP… • Finally, we can bring you a calendar and be optimistic that the events will happen. To celebrate, here’s a bumper edition!

GET OUT THERE! • With 2020 all but a wash-out for classic car touring and rallying, here are some suggestions to help you plan your driving tours and trips for 2021. Time to prep your classic for adventure…

FURTHER AHEAD… • You might want to block out your calendars for these, as we look at some of the biggest global motoring challenges in 2022 and beyond

THE D-DAY STORY MUSEUM • The key turning point of World War Two remembered through its hardware

Classic industry booms! • Far from dying out, both the historic vehicle hobby and the industry are rapidly growing, according to new data

Backlash greets 2030 petrol car ban

NEWS FEED • If you build it they can’t come; GT40s have a blast; new business bases at Bicester; E-type and Lancia celebrations; Landy owners beware; Sydney partner; Rootes honour; and baby blues

Vauxhall moves • Stars of Luton head for Cheshire – ahead of a brand new ‘public-facing’ heritage site

Gerry Coker b.1922

Brian Joscelyne b.1934

A commercial decision • One Mini-mad family had its own class at Shelsley Walsh; Ian Hunt relates how he and his debutant wife Adele fared

TOMAS DE VARGAS MACHUCA • London-born, Milan-bred, Scottish-educated economist who caught the endurance rallying bug and now runs HERO/ERA

JAY LENO • The Collector

DEREK BELL • The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY • The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER • The Driver

Two-litre Touring Car tales

FOR GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS • Few other cars have shared the Ferrari 250 GT SWB’s combination of beauty, racing potential and roadgoing capability. James Page uncovers the story of one example that lived exactly according to that reputation

The 250 family • While the 250 GT SWB is an all-time great, it’s really just one of many. Here’s the full set

EARNING ITS WINGS • From taxi duty to racing champion, this saloon exploited aerodynamics to transcend its humble status. Matthew Hayward drives the Mercedes 190E Evo II

THE STREET RACE YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF • For four thrilling years, Poland’s Lwów Grand Prix featured such racing greats as Rudolf Caracciola on city streets. Piotr Frankowski is your guide

IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER • This is the eighth of seven Allard JRs, built brand new nearly seven decades on – by the son and grandson of Sydney Allard himself. John Simister is first to try it

Gianni Bulgari • He was in high demand as a GT racer, but even greater demand at the family jewellery business. Here Bulgari recalls a life well lived

BLACK GHOST • This Dodge Challenger R/T earned that sobriquet when it was bought new by a serving police officer – who used it for illicit street races. Five decades on, its story can finally be told

DOG-CART AFTERNOON • This 1900 Georges Richard is believed to have competed on the 1000 Miles Trial that same year – and did its first London-to-Brighton Run in 1949. Mark Dixon gets to grips with a piece of history

The winner’s tail • History is recounted by the victors, in this case Henri Pescarolo and friends, about the radical long-bodied Matra that scored France’s first Le Mans crown in more than two decades

A bit of heavy clutch action

OCTANE’S FLEET • These are the cars – and motorbikes – run by the magazine’s staff and contributors

Minor maladies with the Merc

Brief encounter

Every day’s a school...