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IGNITION • EVENTS + NEWS + OPINION

COMING UP… • Good luck deciding how best to spend your next few weekends; May is shaping up to be one heck of a month

New guidelines issued for the electrification of classics • Latest HCVA directive seeks to clarify the legal and physical dangers of converting your car

NEWS FEED

Hope springs eternal • Drive a dream classic to raise vital cash for Africa

Real highlights of Cheshire • Superb line-up promised for Concours d’Esprit

1936 Austin Seven Ruby • Classic car sales specialist James Wheeler tracked down his dad’s old Austin

Michael Fisher • An accidental influencer (@brdcspeedyman) in his 70s, BRDC racing driver and leading top-end Ferrari dealer since the 1960s

JAY LENO • The Collector

DEREK BELL • The Legend

STEPHEN BAYLEY • The Aesthete

ROBERT COUCHER • The Driver

Djet for a real-life rocketman

VOLCANIC ACTIVITY • Ben Barry was present at the McLaren 12C’s launch. 15 years on, he revisits this game-changing supercar and discovers F1 performance for rather less than £17m

THE OWNERSHIP PROSPECT • Stuart Templeton downloads his experiences

RUNNING ONE: THE EXPERT VIEW • Thorney Motorsport is the biggest independent specialist

McLAREN EVERYTHING SINCE THE 12C • The 12C arguably altered the supercar market forever. And that was only the start, says Kyle Fortune

MARKET BUSTERS MODERN HYPERCARS • Analogue hypercars peaked two decades ago – and have become unusually valuable today. Octane’s markets editor Matthew Hayward finds out why

THE COMMENTATORS • Our authorities are major players from the worlds of racing, supercar sales, brokerage, live auctions and online trading – so we tapped their expert insider knowledge

WHITE CHARGER • This most Germanic of motor cars has a particularly British back story, as Mark Dixon finds out

RALLYE LES BLEUS • Few cars are as rewardingly intimate to drive as an Alpine A110, or as successful in rallying. Richard Heseltine gets to grips with the marque’s own recce car on a Portuguese stage

Keith Helfet • The man who shaped the legendary Jaguar XJ220 supercar should have been famous for even more. Richard Heseltine finds out why

BITING BACK • It needed an 8.0-litre V10 for the job, but it did what no other brand has managed since: it annihilated the Porsche 911 in GT racing. Octane takes to the track in the Viper GTS-R

THE ANNIVERSARY WALTZ • From Mumbai to Abingdon in a 1950 YT Tourer: three generations of one family’s epic MG centenary drive

FUEL YOUR PASSION • FOR CLASSIC CARS – WHEREVER YOU ARE IN THE WORLD

THE ONE AND ONLY • After shying away from the limelight for decades, the unique 1959 Maserati 3500 GT Bertone took a bow at Pebble Beach last year. Massimo Delbò gets behind the wheel

A cruise around the lake • 1982 MERCEDES-BENZ 500SL

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

Of mice and AA men • 1955 JAGUAR XK140

Spring sale • 1963 TRIUMPH TROPHY TR6SS

Going Continental • 1986 FORD SIERRA RS COSWORTH

Cactus flowers • 1965 TRIUMPH 2.5 PI

Barrel of fun • 1997 PEUGEOT 306 GTI-6

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