Classic American

Classic American magazine featuring Classic American muscle and Classic American styling. Each month packed full of restoration stories, news from the Classic American scene, hundreds of classifieds, readers letters and rides. So don't miss out, immerse yourself each month in a little part of the American Dream. Subscribe to the digital edition today - and enjoy savings on RRP of over 70% - Instant delivery worldwide. Never miss an issue.

DEFINITELY, MAYBE, NOT!

Classic American

News

AUCTION WATCH • HISTORICS’ SYMPHONY OF SPRING

Tex Trubshaw

Glenn Pray Cord 8/10 • Richard Heseltine unearths another weird and wonderful offering from the annals of American automotive archives, this time a Cord ‘tribute’ from the Sixties!

California, CARB and classic cars • Evans discusses regulation on vehicle emissions and how it’s creating more problems than it solves on the West Coast…

Mail • Email us at: email@classic-american.com or write to: Classic American magazine, PO Box 99, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6LZ

BACK TO THE FUTURE! • We look back at a brace of special GM offerings from the early Eighties that are increasingly rare to find in such original or unmolested condition mechanically – partly due to their cutting-edge technology (for the time!) which are commonly either removed or bypassed…

The Hamtramck HAND-ME-DOWN • How many owners would be tempted to take a plain Jane Challenger and transform it into a fire-breathing, big cube muscle car tribute? Not this owner, who chose to restore his one-family owned, one-of-122, 383/2bbl 1971 Dodge Challenger convertible to how it left the factory…

A text-book restoration • Reproduction window sticker was included just to show what was in the car when it was new.

In the pink • Virgil Exner’s styling team produced a masterpiece in the ’55 Dodges, but they’re almost never encountered at shows. Steve and Marina Tennick weren’t looking for one, but when they saw one for sale, it was love at first sight…

CHRYSLER IN BRITAIN – PART TWO: Compacts, full-size and muscle cars • Last month Geoff Carverhill looked at Chrysler’s entry into the UK market in the Twenties and Thirties and how it flourished as the manufacturer of big touring saloons and dropheads. However, after the Second World War, all that was to change…

TECH: VIN DECODING – PART ONE • Martin Mumford gets his automotive Rosetta stone out…

Selling the Dream 1976 Buick

EVENTS 2025

NSRA SOUTHERN SWAP MEET • North Weald, Essex March 2, 2025

RÉTROMOBILE 2025 • Expo Porte de Versailles, Paris February 5-9, 2025

Behind the Wheel • More tales of the trials and tribulations of Classic American staff and contributors behind the wheel of the great American automobile.

American Cars Collection

Will Shiers’ DISCOVERIES • Our intrepid salvage yard explorer brings you junkyard jewels from across North America.

Reviews

ON SALE April 17 NEXT MONTH