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Collectors’ Motor Cars & Automobilia Woodstock, Oxford Saturday 3 March 2012 Entries now invited

Bonhams UK Motoring Auction Season starts on Saturday 3 March 2012 at our Oxford Regional Salerooms, where last year a spectacular sale rate of 91% was achieved.

The perfect location for a motor car sale with all the in-house facilities you would expect from a fully operational auction house. On-site catering will be available all weekend.

Motor Cars +44 (0) 20 7468 5801 ukcars@bonhams.com

Automobilia +44 (0) 8700 273 617 automobilia@bonhams.com

Catalogue +44 (0) 1666 502 200 subscriptions@bonhams.com

1. Two owners from new 1982 Aston Martin V8 Vantage £35,000 - 45,000 2. 1953 Packard 8 Caribbean £25,000 - 30,000 (no reserve) 3. Left-Hand Drive, Barn Find 1961 Ferrari 250 GTE 2+2 £40,000 - 60,000 Above: Ex-Elton John 1965 Jaguar E-Type Series I 4.2-Litre Roadster £50,000 - 70,000

International Auctioneers and Valuers - bonhams.com/cars THIS MONTH

March 2012 • Volume 30 No 12 • On sale 2 February

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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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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

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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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