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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! This year, to celebrate ten years of the show, Practical Classics editor, Matt Tomkins will be taking on the challenge of restoring his 1968 Mini MkII Countryman, which was last on the road in 1977 and has been a barn find until now.
Matt’s goal is to have the Mini as a painted shell by the show, so he can fit it out during the weekend with the help of the PC team and a few special guests!
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 Greatest Hits
The PC team is bringing a selection of the best restorations that have featured in the magazine for you to enjoy all over again as they present PC’s Greatest Hits.
Find out what has happened to the vehicles beyond the restoration with updates from the owners:
- Clive Moss’ Opel Manta B 6-cylinder / 2021 Winner / A three-year labour of love, Clive transformed his Opel Manta with meticulous bodywork and a powerful 3.0 6-cylinder engine.
- Steve Brown’s 1980 Land Rover Series 3 / 2023 Winner / In eight years, Steve turned a dilapidated Landy into a flawless masterpiece, both inside and out.
- Gerry Lloyd’s Rover 75 Coupé / 2019 Winner / Inspired by the 75 Coupe concept, Gerry meticulously crafted his own version from an MG ZT, dedicating 2500 hours to the project.
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 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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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 ... -
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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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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!
