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30th September 2022 Alex Bestwick Competitions

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Will Shiers shares his favourite scrapyard finds

28th September 2022 Alex Bestwick Feature Articles, Features, New & Features

Will Shiers has shared some incredible scrapyard discoveries on the pages of Classic American over the years, and today he’s listing eight of his all-time favourite finds.

NSRA Southern Swap Meet 2022

27th September 2022 Alex Bestwick Galleries, New & Features

North Weald, Essex, March 6th 2022. Words: Ben Klemenzson, Photography: Ben Klemenzson & Christopher Tilley

The first American car

21st September 2022 Alex Bestwick Feature Articles, Features, New & Features

On September 21, 1893, the Duryea brothers took what is widely regarded as the first American manufactured, gasoline powered car on the road for the first time.

Two cars beside each other, one red and one black.

Domestic Discoveries

19th September 2022 Alex Bestwick Feature Articles, New & Features

The ‘Discoveries’ in Classic American’s pages are usually lurking in dusty American junkyards, thousands of miles away, but Zack Stiling managed to track down a brace of abandoned Yanks in leafy Surrey…

Mustangs over here

15th September 2022 Alex Bestwick Feature Articles, Galleries, New & Features

Beloved Classic American contributor Steve Miles spent his youth photographing American cars he saw on the streets of England. Here we unearth some of his Mustang photos.

Preview: October issue of Classic American magazine

14th September 2022 Alex Bestwick Latest issue

In the October issue: a homage to the demonically possessed 1958 Plymouth from Stephen King’s novel and film Christine, we get to know 1968 Shelby Mustang GT500KR and see why it was known as King of the Road, and we catch up with a couple of Seventies custom van enthusiasts and their groovy creations.

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