There’s so much to love in the April 1992 edition of Classic & Sports Car, it’s hard to pick just a few items to highlight to inspire you to delve into our now fully digital archive and (re?)discover it for yourself.
This was our 10th-anniversary issue, a milestone marked generously by a 32-page retrospective.
In reflecting on the decade just passed, team members recalled the best and worst cars they’d driven, some of their favourite images from the magazine, events they’d loved attending, and remembered those who’d died since Classic and Sportscar (as it was then) was founded, including Colin Chapman, Sir William Lyons, Sir Alec Issigonis, Rudolf Uhlenhaut and Enzo Ferrari.
I won’t share all the treats from that ‘special souvenir supplement’ that clearly took a lot of work and was a labour of love – it’s well worth your time and will devour more of mine later – but in the collection of best quotes, I particularly took pleasure in this from then-editor Giles Chapman: “I bought a Vanden Plas 1300. If this is anyone's absolute ultimate, all-time and forever dream car, then they should eat more cheese just before retiring for the night.”
The team recalls some of the worst cars it drove in the magazine’s first decade
