Classic Retro Modern Magazine May/June 2023 Edizione posteriore

Goodness, is that the ’time? We’ve rewound the clock a couple of decades to celebrate the abstract brilliance of the Renault Avantime. Well, we couldn’t stick just any old car on the cover, having starved you of Classic.Retro.Modern. action for an extra month. Yep, we’re bi-monthly now, but better that than to disappear altogether, which has been the fate of some well-established titles.

A couple of readers have complained about the lack of classics from the 1960s and 1970s, and although we’ve got a modern classic on the cover, you’ll find some much older metal on the inside. Skorj charts the history of the Isuzu 117 Coupé, Sam Glover pens a love letter to the Chevrolet Corvair, while Ian Tisdale drives his Honda 1300 Coupe. Yes, it’s Coupe and not Coupé – find out why in the mag.

Elsewhere, Darren Walker meets a Chevelle SS, a car he describes as “Chevrolet’s accidental muscle car”, Richard Dredge celebrates MG at 100, Caesar Barton names six of the best transaxle Porsches, and Terry Luck tells us what it’s like to live with a Vauxhall Monaro.

Having read his piece on the Lancia Y, we suspect Gavin Braithwaite-Smith is edging closer to buying the avant-garde small car, although he needs to finish the restoration of his Citroën AX GT before welcoming another new car to the Auto Barn. Speaking of the AX GT, Citroën’s featherlight hot hatch is the subject of this issue’s reader restoration.

All this and so much more, including the Ultimate Guide to tax-exempt classics, a market insight on the Volvo Amazon, Rich Duisberg’s Fiat Panda 100HP and… well, you’ll have to buy a copy of the mag, which is in stores today.

It’s a long weekend, so you can’t say you Avantime to read it. Thanks for sticking with us.