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The classic car events that make September 2026 the busiest month of the year
Nineteen UK fixtures, two concours running in the same week, and a Revival weekend that now carries the whole of Bonhams' Goodwood year on its own. September is the month the calendar stops being polite.
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The most valuable British car ever sold went under the hammer in California
Monterey turned over three quarters of a billion dollars in three days and set a British record inside it. Read the small print, though, and California was picking cars exactly the way Silverstone did in July. Our own test comes on 19 September.
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The Cars We Didn't Save: a new book about the classics we scrapped by the million
In 1994 there were 1,231,963 Vauxhall Cavaliers licensed in Great Britain. By early 2026 there were 871 left on the road. Lee Brickley's new book asks where they all went, and it might be the most quietly upsetting classic car read of the year.
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The recreations took the hit: what late July actually paid
I said the Hamilton collection's recreations would sit in a more resilient pool of the market than the seven-figure originals. The room disagreed. Here is what late July paid, and why the real E-types were the ones that held.
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Six classic car events to put in your August 2026 diary
A centenary at Brooklands, sixty years of the HSCC at Castle Combe, Italy taking over Brands Hatch, and a bank holiday weekend with more clashes than any sane person can solve. Here is the August shortlist.
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How to attract classic car clubs to your venue
Classic car clubs book on quiet days, spend properly at the bar and come back every year if you look after them. A practical guide for hoteliers, publicans and event spaces on what clubs actually want from a venue.
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How to reach classic car bidders and entrants
Entries follow bidders, bidders follow the calendar, and the calendar is not in a glossy magazine any more. A guide for auction houses and event organisers on where Britain's classic car buyers actually plan their year.
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A hundred years since the Grand Prix came to Brooklands
On 7 August 1926 nine cars started Britain's first Grand Prix at Brooklands and only three of them finished. The centenary falls on Saturday 8 August, the museum has already sold out, and there is still one way in.
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The Hamilton collection, and the late-July auction test at Silverstone
Anthony Hamilton is selling 26 cars at the inaugural BRDC Classic, most of them Jaguars, in the very half-year Jaguar has been the softest marque in Britain. That, plus a lakeside sale near Windsor and a busy fortnight of volume rooms, makes late July the real test of the 2026 market.
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Ninety Years On: The Bentley Drivers Club
One of our showcase clubs turns ninety in 2026. It began with a card tucked under a windscreen wiper at Brooklands, and it has a very good summer ahead.
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Six classic car events to put in your July 2026 diary
The season's busiest month is already rolling. From a Wiltshire museum road run and the oldest hill in the sport to a field of gloriously ordinary saloons, here are the six July fixtures worth clearing a weekend for.
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The UK classic car market in H1 2026: a selectivity year
Hagerty's Best of British index is at its lowest point since launch, Jaguar values are off 21%, and yet Iconic Auctioneers sold 93% of the collectors' cars at Race Retro. The H1 2026 picture isn't a crash; it's a fork in the road.
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