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.
Practical Classics - Restorer of the Year Returns!
Bob Meldrum wins Restorer of the Year for his stunning Vauxhall Viva HB Estate revival and modification, earning the "Golden Theo" award! Nominated by Practical Classics readers, he triumphed over a variety of impressive finalists.
Bob demonstrated incredible bodywork expertise, and innovatively integrated a Lotus engine. This transformed the car into a period-perfect, high-performance shooting brake – a vision Vauxhall themselves could have created. Come and witness his award-winning masterpiece at the show and visit the Your Shout Stage (Hall 5) at 2pm on Friday, where Bob will receive his award!
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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Rolling off Citroën’s Paris production line on 13 July 1985, this 2CV was shipped to Surrey where it was registered new to a Mr Roger White in Cranleigh, who paid £3302. He sold the car six years later to his next-door neighbour, Andrew Fleeson, and then to Barry Annells on December 31, 1996, who fi ... -
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Fergus imported this stunning Fiat in 2022 from an enthusiast in San Francisco who had cherished the car for 28 years. It took a while to reach the UK, though. It was meant to be a 30-day voyage on a container ship, but the car was first offloaded in Panama, eventually making its way ‘home’ to Italy ... -
Some of you may remember Editor Danny’s brief flirtation with a V6 Avantime auto about eight years ago. That car was superb, he loved every minute of ownership and has always slightly regretted selling it, especially so soon. It was bonkers and brilliant and infuriating and if it hadn’t had a sligh ... -
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Owned by Matt since he was just sixteen years old, this Morris Minor has starred in the Staff Car Sagas section of the magazine for a number of years and now boasts an impressive mechanical specification. The engine is a tasty 1275 with a thick flange MG Midget block, balanced A+ crankshaft and rod ...
