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COMING UP… • Up and down the land, classics are coming out of hibernation to take part in rallies, tours, outdoor shows and race meets

Marcello Gandini b.1938 • Octane’s Massimo Delbò – who met the maestro many times – pays tribute to a car design legend who passed away on 13 March

Dream GTO destination • Ferrari reveals special anniversary tour

NEWS FEED

The devil all the time • For 20 years Peter Dietsch has been making supercars really earn their keep

Unhibernating a classic

Lewis James • Third-generation CEO of family business Brian James Trailers, renowned for its high-quality enclosed car transporters

JAY LENO • The Collector

DEREK BELL • The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY • The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER • The Driver

Of Volvos and V8s

FLAMIN’ BRILLIANT! • This is the most extensive ever road test of the fire-breathing Schuppan-Porsche 962 CR. Octane puts Dickie Meaden behind the wheel of a road-legal, race-bred unicorn

Vern’s road racer • Back in the day, Ray Hutton had unique access to the inside story of Schuppan’s 962 LM and 962 CR road cars

Original Aussie grit… • There’s more to the man behind our cover car than meets the eye

Only the BRAVE • This monstrous Fiat 130HP was driven to victory by Felice Nazzaro in the 1907 French Grand Prix. Massimo Delbò dons his goggles and gathers his courage

Oliver Gavin • Le Mans’ own ‘Mr Corvette’, 51-time class-winning endurance racer Oliver Gavin has given up the driving seat to teach others how to follow in his tyre-tracks

The Hills are alive with the sound of … • …a big-block Chevy V8 stuffed inside a flamed ’32 Ford hot rod. Mark Dixon is given a tour of Beverly Hills by long-time resident (and even-longer hot rod enthusiast) Bruce Meyer

THE JOY OF SIX • From its brand-new post-war home in Crewe, Bentley redefined itself with the prescient MkVI sports saloon. Glen Waddington drives the desirable HJ Mulliner six-light version

I’d drive 1000 miles for a camel… • Incredible scenery, superb roads, star drivers: join Robert Coucher for an unforgettable Arabian odyssey on the 1000 Miglia Experience UAE

UNSUNG HERO • Join Octane at Monsanto Park, Portugal, to drive the ex-Manuel Nogueira Pinto 1961 Jaguar E-type racer – the most successful of its era

THE GLAS CEILING • The zenith of car production by BMW’s near-neighbour could have been the flagship for all of Bavaria, says James Elliott

Doris does Monaco

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

From six to two in seven

Going ‘modern’

Coventry motor panelled

Doing it anyway

The Porsche is all-white

The off-road supercar: take 1

The off-road supercar: take 2

Old World gameplay

A bit more S in this SUV

John Henry Knight • He built the UK’s first petrol-powered ‘car’ – and promptly racked up the UK’s first motoring offence

The shipping container • It would take a train 44 miles long to transport a modern container ship’s load

Why Omega’s Chronostop deserves more love • Membership of a more iconic subgroup of Omegas might have made this watch significantly more valuable

ONE TO WATCH Heuer 980.013 • Great heritage, that ‘certain something’, and a bargain too

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1967 FERRARI 330 P4 • By Werk83 Price £91.95 Material Diecast

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