The guys at Ford realised that not everyone necessarily wanted a full-size boat or an itty-bitty compact. Enter the Meteor, which like a lot of Ford group products was basically a jazzed-up version of an existing Ford model, in this case, the interme

This month we’re celebrating ordinary cars for ordinary people! Whenever we do surveys, readers consistently say they would like to see more cars that they could imagine themselves being able to afford to buy, own and run. Fewer concours, big dollar

The long-established model kit manufacturers are really lucky. The creation of traditional plastic model kits requires considerable investment, with expensive tooling necessary for their injection moulding machines. The upside of this is that these m

1. When I’m tin-hunting I tend to shy away from the well organised urban yards, which specialise in modern cars, and instead try to seek out the disorderly and more picturesque rural yards. However, on a recent trip to St Louis I made an exception, a

Wayne Kendall will be the first to admit he leads a busy life, much of which is taken up by his demanding job. As you’d expect, this hectic lifestyle combined with raising a young family means any potential hobbies must be carefully thought through a

events & cruises Classic American Events, Media Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6JR 30TH MOPAR EURO NATIONALS Santa Pod Raceway, Airfield Road, Podington, Wellingborough, Northants NN29 7XA. The ultimate American muscle Car show with RWYB f

I recently acquired a small, but very high-quality set of photographs taken around Lincoln, Lincolnshire, by Norman Keyse, who lived in a village called North Scarle. Norman passed away in 2021, but I had the pleasure of speaking to his widow Susan,

EDITOR Ben Klemenzson [email protected] DESIGN Druck Media Pvt. CONTRIBUTORS Richard Heseltine, Huw Evans, Mike Renaut, Matt Woods, Jon Cass, John Bath, Martin Mumford, Zack Stiling, Keith Harman, Alice Fairhead, Christopher Tilley, Richard

Between February and October 1964, a bright red streak with a gold number 26 on the side could be seen speeding around the NASCAR circuits of America. Its driver, Bobby Isaac, was not yet at the pinnacle of his career; that would come in 1970, when h

This gorgeous 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer picked up the Kingstown Shipping Car of the Year gong at the Classic American Stars and Stripes show, held on the Tatton Park Estate in Cheshire. Belonging to Steve and Marina Tennick from Warrington, the car boa

If there are such things as ‘weather gods’ up there in the firmament, they were doing their very best to try the patience of everyone at this year’s Dragstalgia 13. Friday was okay, with early grey skies clearing by lunchtime ready for some Run-what-

If you’d cruised down to Cofton Holidays near Dawlish for their annual American Car Show over the weekend of June 21-23, you would have seen thousands of visitors enjoying what is billed as the biggest American car show in the South West. The event i

With Mustang ownership at an all-time high in the UK and marking 60 years since the release of the marque, this year’s Mustang Owners Club of Great Britain event carried significant expectations. Fortunately, the unique mix of passionate ownership an

It seems like British American vehicle fans can’t get enough of American pick-up trucks these days, especially older ones from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies. Still affordable and practical too, in terms of being able to lug things about, they’re

For the longest time, America has been obsessed with the latest and greatest. Turn on any TV channel, streaming service or social media feed and you’ll likely be inundated with the latest trend, whether it’s Artificial Intelligence, green technology,

Author: Scott KoleckiPublished by: Car TechISBN: 978-1-61325-757-9 £34 Hot on the heels of the Corvette concept cars book reviewed recently, comes one from the same author about the development of Chevrolet’s answer to the Mustang: the Camaro. This b

I don’t know if you have ever looked into the glove box or centre console and thought, ‘one day, I will reline or refresh this’, but you never get around to it? Well, maybe now is that time! A lot of us have opened the centre console, only to be gree

Dear Classic American,I left the UK in 1964 to go to America with a bus ticket in my baggage, 99 dollars for 99 days. I saw the States, the cars and all it had to offer from a window seat on a Greyhound Bus. Like Huw Evans, life was never the same ag

Sometimes at Classic American, a bit of time passes between a car being photographed and it making it into the pages of the magazine. That was the case with this lovely 1965 Chevrolet Bel Air four-door sedan. In the period between Matt photographing

Imagine cruising along a sea front, following a stream of Forties and Fifties classics, with magnificent machinery in your mirrors and even more passing in the opposite direction. Well, now you can experience that dream scene for real. A trip back in

It was either a masterwork of coachbuilding artistry, or a travesty of Biblical proportions depending on whose estimate you canvassed. These days, it isn’t unusual for a car to be given a designer reskin – creating a ‘new’ car that retains the same b

There are only a small number of car museums in Southern Arizona, but I’m prepared to bet that no other collection would allow you to sit in some of the exhibits, as is encouraged here. In fairness, there are exceptions to this generous concession, b

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Someone at Mortons (the company which owns and runs Classic American magazine and puts on the Stars & Stripes Show) must have done something really awful to upset the weather gods, as it rained on the morning of both show days… And when that happens

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Beaulieu’s Custom and American car show has become a firm favourite on lots of American car fans’ calendars. Not only does it take place of Father’s Day, but it’s also held in the bucolic grounds of Beaulieu, one of the UK’s prettiest stately homes,

This article is based around a 1978 Chevy BIG 10, but for our purposes all vehicles follow the same basic principles – with the exception of electric vehicles. If you have been around American vehicles for as long as I have (which is a very long time

This August sees the Mopar Euro Nationals’ 30th event at Santa Pod Raceway – and to celebrate this remarkable achievement we wanted to share a few of our favourite memories from over the years. I’m Joe Oksien and with Jim Wilson, Richard Berry and Ti

ICON 4x4 has specialised in restoring and reimagining beloved vintage designs such as Broncos, Land Cruisers and Thriftmasters since 2005, with an emphasis on modernising each vehicle with advanced engineering to delight drivers behind the wheel. Alw

E DITOR Ben Klemenzson [email protected] DESIGN Druck Media Pvt. CONTRIBUTORS Joe Oksien, Richard Heseltine, Huw Evans, Mike Renaut, Matt Richardson, Keith Harman, AF Photography, Steve Havelock, Jon Cass, Paul Siudowski, Jessica Siudowski,