Practical Classics July 2003

Overview

Publication Details

Type	Magazine
Publisher	Practical Classics
Published date	01/07/2003

Articles

Page	Title	Type	Length	Options
6	Group Test - Pulling from the front - Today's front-wheel-drive Euro-boxes may not turn you on, but their forebears certainly led from the front. Theodore J Gillam goes on the pull. BSA T9 Tourer, Citroen 11 Legere, Auto Union 1000S, Mini City	Multi vehicle - Reviews	7
32	Classic Drives - Jagged Edge - Danny Hopkins drives the car, finds the girl and for just one day lives right on the edge of heaven. Life just doesn't get any better than this. Jaguar E-type S111.	General interest	6
39	Nobody Wanted it. Nobody Loved It - Rapier Convertible - Everyone else saw the tatty Raper as a hopless basket-case, but Ted Welch saw it as a car that needed a home. And, as Dale Drinnon discovers, not all good deeds go unrewarded.	Restoration	5
46	From Cradle to Grave - Opel Manta - GM’s bachelor-boy coupé provided cheap thrill for thousands of young blades, with its laddish looks and sporting pretensions. Nigel Boothman charts the progress from A to GTE.	Features	6
54	Something completely different - Aston Martin Lagonda - In the late Seventies, exciting visions of the future were commonplace. We had Space 1999, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars and Newport Pagnell. Newport Pagnell? Yep-Aston had its own Millennium Falcon, but was the force with it?	Features	4
68	Austin Powered - Austin A30 - Austin’s A30 came with just 28bhp when it was launched in 1952 but you can now give it a whole lot more. Ben Barry finds out how to make the Flying A really fly.	Features	6
80	Four Sevens and 14 days: a calculated trip of a lifetime - Steering is hilarious. You aim the car then correct its new direction with the wheel - great.	General interest	4
90	Staff car sagas - 1966 Triumph Spitfire, 1979 Matra Bagherra, 1986 VW Golf GTI, 1969 Triumph TR6, 1972 Commer Camper, Austin Opal, Alvis Speed 25, 1968 Skoda 1000MB, 1966 Singer Chamois, 1972 Mercedes 280SE, 1987 Peugeot 505 GTI Family.	Restoration	6
98	Engine Internals - Put an Austin camshaft in a Ford block with a Fiat head and you’ll have a stonking engine. Simon Goldsworthy and Tim Bishop play pick-and-mix with a century of engine internals.	General interest	4
108	Weekend Workshop - Changing rear wheel bearings - Need to change the rear wheel bearings on your rear-wheel-drive car, but never done it before? Then use our step-by-step guide.	General interest	2
112	Riple Bonnet Citroën 2CV - In the Beginning - Familiar principals but weird applications. Lindsay Porter discovers a whole new world while restoring this ’ancienne modele’ 2CV.	Restoration	4
116	Rover V8 Rebuild: Follow it, enjoy it.... Then win it! - Time to reassemble our Rover V8 in its new capacity of 3.9 litres. And just to prove how good it is, we test it on V8 Developments’ purpose-built dyno. The results are good...	General interest	4
124	Buyer's Guide The Poor Man’s E-Type - Triumph GT6: 1966-1973 - Triumph’s mini-GT can be a rich supply of classic fun, if you buy carefully. Richard Dredge shows you how.	Features	6
131	Buyer Product Test - Oil filter removers - As the proper tools are so cheap, there's no excuse for using a hammer and screwdriver to loosen your oil filter anymore. James Stanbury goes in search of the best.	General interest	3
134	Buyer Datafile: Alfa Romeo Montreal - Get Alfa’s forgotten supercar for a fraction of Ferrari money.	Features	2
184	Buyer ownership guide - Ford Escort Mk I - Two and a quarter million Mk 1s came off the production lines between 1968 and 1974. If you've gor one, you'll need to read this...	Features	2

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