Every year at Classic & Sports Car we celebrate the year’s biggest classic car anniversaries – and 2021 was no different.
So as the year draws to a close, we thought this was the perfect time to look back on the biggest birthdays we’ve celebrated over the past 12 months.
Plus it’s another opportunity to give some much-loved models another moment in the spotlight.
We’re going to do this by age, starting with the oldest, meaning the first anniversary we’re looking back on is the Bugatti Brescia’s centenary.
The model’s name derives from the marque’s dominant 1-2-3-4 finish at the poorly contested 1921 Italian voiturette GP – but its engineering set the template for many Molsheim trademarks.
You can enjoy our full feature here.
It is a bit of a jump, age-wise, to our next celebration, as we fast-forward three decades for the 70th anniversary of the venerable A-series engine.
This versatile engine started life under the Austin A30’s bonnet in 1951 and kept on going until the final Mini rolled off the production line in October 2000 – we tell its story here.