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Your Shout Stage
Your Shout Stage is dedicated to answering any issues, concerns or queries you have regarding all things restoration - from buying to selling, planning to restoring, maintaining to mechanics and more!
The stage brings together a host of the UK's best restorers and master mechanics to discuss the hot topics for classic car enthusiasts.
Previous conversations have covered restoration vs preservation, MOT Exemptions and electrification, plus much more!
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The PC Workshop
Visit the Practical Classics Workshop to experience a live restoration project underway! Editor Danny Hopkins and his talented crew will work on two Fiat Spiders—one ready for a transformation and a donor car lovingly donated by a former RAF airman.
You can find out if the team get anywhere near their ambition by coming to see their work in progress at the Practical Classics Workshop.
PC Staff Car Sagas
Every month the Practical Classics team let you into their garages to share in the trials and tribulations of classic car ownership with their ‘Staff Car Sagas’. Now you can see these vehicles up close in the Practical Classics World.
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Starting life as a somewhat pedestrian Austin Seven Ruby, PC Workshop Editor Matt Tomkins has spent the past four years achieving his dream of converting its sorry remains into a sports special, in which he intends to take to the track with the 750 Motor Club later ink 2024. -
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Found in the garage of PC reader Carl Cranney, it hadn’t turned a wheel for 38 years. It is second oldest production Coupe known to the Morris Marina Owners Club. The car was restarted on the Live Stage at the CMS in 2022 and the restoration has just been finished in time for the show where it will ... -
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Found in a field, rotten and forlorn, PC Workshop Editor Matt Tomkins has spent hundreds of hours bringing this Landy back from the brink, with help from parts specialists Britpart. Plenty of welding met spanner spinning galore and with new brakes and suspension all round, adventure awaits. -
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Matt has owned and enjoyed several BMWs from the Eighties to the Noughties over the years, but this is the first drop-top variant that he’s had in his care. Having cost just £1500 and gone on to conquer Scotland in style, it is now waiting patiently for its next epic adventure! -
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James bought his first ‘modern’ 18 years ago and since then, his Roadster has served faithfully as a daily driver with regular commutes into Manchester, Birmingham and Central London. It has also toured Europe five times, from the Arctic Circle to the Alps and continues to put a smile on James’s fac ...
