September 2019 Classic & Sports Car 11
Contents
NEWS
The big picture 8
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2019 14
News & events 20
Classic diary 31
Sport 33
Lost & found 39
REVIEWS
Motoring art 46
Books 49
Models 53
Garage gear 54
COMMENT
Mick Walsh From the cockpit 57
Simon Taylor Full throttle 59
Martin Buckley Backfire 61
Letters 63
Next month 65
FEATURES
ASTON DB3S vs JAGUAR D-TYPE 106
Mick Walsh gets an exclusive road run
in a pair of endurance racing legends
AHEAD OF THE PACK 117
Our pick of the best ’50s sports-racers
GETTING IN A SPIN 118
Wankel’s rotary revolution, with Mazda
Cosmo, NSU Ro80 and Citroën Birotor
BUICK’S LAND YACHT 126
Alastair Clements makes a case for the
controversial ’71-’73 Riviera ‘boat-tail’
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION 132
A beautifully restored Bentley Corniche
MERCEDES SLK32 vs BMW Z3M 138
Move over TVR: a pair of musclebound
roadsters from Germany compared
FIRST AMONG SEQUELS 146
Goodwood’s first Austin-Healey privateer
CHANTILLY’S ACE... 152
...so says Mick Walsh after taking part in
the premier French concours d’élégance
FINS FOR THE PEOPLE 158
Visions of the future from 1959: Ford
Anglia, Austin A40 and Triumph Herald
DETROIT’S HIDDEN GEM 166
Taking a tour of the brilliant but little-
known Stahls Automotive Foundation
GOODWOODSPECIAL 171
Our essential 16-page Revival preview
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“The DB3S never had the power of the
D-type,” said Roy Salvadori. “You could
drive the Jaguar as a gentleman, but
you had to be a hooligan in the Aston”