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THIS MONTH
March 2012 • Volume 30 No 12 • On sale 2 February
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82 Coombs Mk2 heads our pick of the finest roadgoing Jaguars
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126 Primula: the most important small car you’ve never heard of? 112 Celebrating half a century of Jensen’s V8-powered, glassfibre-bodied C-V8
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120 City (oil) slickers hit the streets as the Poor Boys head to the capital 98 Precision instruments from Feltham that squared up to the big guns at Le Mans
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How to buy the best Triumph Spitfire – 50 years young and still a bargain 162
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138 Our classics: ‘Boo’ on parade, and Port gets painting classics Our
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151 How to... patch up the plastic population
NEWS Editorial
The gallery
News & events
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Sport
Lost & found
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Subscribe! 08448 488835 26 COMMENT Alain de Cadenet Inside line 29 Mick Walsh From the cockpit 31 Simon Taylor Full throttle 33 Martin Buckley Backfire 35 Letters 37 REVIEWS Motoring art 40 Books 43 Models 47 Automobilia 49 Classic shrines 51 Next month 53
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FEATURES Coombs Jaguar Mk2
saloon sporting Coventry’s up Spicing steroids on XJ-S Monstrous twin-blown Lister MkIII
The best of the rest Jaguar’s fastest in-house hot rods
Ulster reunion cars team Martin Aston of quartet A Ferrari 512BB LM Ex-NART racer tested at Paul Ricard Jensen C-V8 at 50
FEATURES Coombs Jaguar Mk2 82 Spicing up Coventry’s sporting saloon XJ-S on steroids 90 Monstrous twin-blown Lister MkIII The best of the rest 96 Jaguar’s fastest in-house hot rods Ulster reunion 98 A quartet of Aston Martin team cars Ferrari 512BB LM 106 Ex-NART racer tested at Paul Ricard Jensen C-V8 at 50 112 Buckley champions an underrated GT Top Ten slowpokes 118 The racing cars that just got in the way Poor Boys’ Tour 120 London by night: dynamos be warned! Autobianchi Primula 126 Unsung Italian supermini trendsetter In search of the ultimate 132 Retro-look Porsches with modern mechanicals face an original 911S
GT underrated an champions Buckley
Ten slowpokes Top
LIVING WITH CLASSICS Our classics 138 Your classics DBR2 replica 147 Garage gear 149 How to... Repair glassfibre 151 Specialist 153
BUYING AND SELLING Auctions 154 Market place 160 Buyer’s guide Spitfire 162 Case histories start on 173 30 years of C&SC 242
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