Editor's Intro
A sad note
16 February 2012
It was with great sadness that I learned of the passing of Classic American’s founding editor Tony Beadle last month. Having read the the title since issue one when I was a student, he was someone I was familiar with from being a teenager.
Happy 250th!
19 January 2012.
In the words of the Grateful Dead: “What a long strange trip it’s been…” This month’s magazine isn’t celebrating 250 years of Classic American, but 250 issues, which translates into 24 years since that first undated issue hit the shelves back in the summer of 1988.
Not so bleak after all...
15 December 2011.
Welcome to our Pontiac Special! Listening to the news these days you could be forgiven for thinking we’re all going to be living in carboard boxes and eating our shoe soles for dinner next week.
The Special Great One!
17 November 2011.
Time to make some more space on your walls for yet another Classic American Collector’s Series poster!
It’s a Family Affair
20 October 2011.
This year’s Classic Motor Show has “running in the family” as its theme, which got me thinking about how many of us have inherited our enthusiasm for American cars and trucks from our families.
Crikey!
15 September 2011.
If your Classic American feels even chunkier than usual, then I make no apologies – this month’s magazine contains the first of our Collector’s Series of double-sided adverts, celebrating this month that much loved icon of the American highway, the Ford Mustang!
Welcome... September 2011
18 August 2011.
It’s official. After decades of languishing as an automotive metaphor for being square, old-fashioned and terminally ‘uncool’, folks have finally rediscovered what marvellously versatile and (say it out loud!) practical vehicles American station wagons can be.
Cha’ Cha’ Change...
21 July 2011.
Is the American car scene changing? As older cars become scarcer and newer ones replace them; you could argue the demographic is always in a state of transition or flux. Are some of our nicer, rarer and more interesting American cars leaving these shores, heading back to the US or mainland Europe and Scandinavia, bought by enthusiasts tempted by the weakness of Sterling and our relatively low prices? It’s an issue raised by a reader in our Letters page this month and it’s certainly an interesting perspective.
Mix-it up!
16 June 2011.
This month’s Classic American really sums up what this magazine is all about – it’s a veritable smorgasbord of everything American and automotive!
Welcome... June 2011
19 May 2011.
Summer it would seem is here; either that or we’re going to have one of those oddball hot-sunny springs followed by a long damp summer – hopefully not the latter!
Current Issue: March 2012
• CAR 2011 OF THE YEAR FINALIST
• 1941 CADILLAC
Standard of the world
• 1969 MUSTANG GT
From rags to riches
• '49 BUICK
• 'RAIN MAN'
• ROADMASTER
• PONTIAC ADS IN THE 60S
• WOODWARD AVE CRUISE
• 1958 CHEVY APACHE
• TECH: RECHROMING
• DO YOU KNOW THE MEANING OF MOPAR?
• DRIVE: CORVETTE GRAND SPORT
• THE AMERICAN MOTORS STORY
• FREE DOUBLE SIDED COLLECTORS’ SERIES POSTER
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: 15 March 2012
