Classic & Vintage Commercials

Classic & Vintage Commercials magazine is dedicated to heavy commercial vehicles. Focusing on the truck manufacturers from the heyday of road haulage over the past eight decades. Take a trip down memory lane with Britain’s best-selling classic road-haulage magazine. From reader’s restorations and recollections to company histories and archive images, you’ll find a welcome mix of nostalgia and news and even some classic trucks for sale.

Classic & Vintage Commercials

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THE HEAD GUY • Possibly the best restored Guy Big J4T has been turning heads since its six-year restoration from a cab-less chassis was completed. But its revival is down to a massive stroke of luck and talking to the right man at the right time. Pip Dunn tells the story

THE RESTORATION

The big J4

NEWS • If you have a News story, e-mail cvc.ed@kelsey.co.uk or write to The Editor, Classic and Vintage Commercials, PO Box 1243, Spalding PE11 9HE

BEDFORD TM • Pt3: Peter Davies concludes the story as Bedford gave way to AWD, and looks at why it all went wrong…

PD’s archives

Letters • YOUR VIEWS, COMMENTS AND RECOLLECTIONS…

GAME-CHANGING VOLVO • The Volvo F88 was one of first of the new wave of continental lorries that dominated the British haulage industry from the 1970s. Carl Evans from Shropshire owns a superb example which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2025. Bob Weir tells the story…

A brief history of the Volvo F88

Carrying on

60 YEARS OF TRANSITS

THE CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT LASTS ALL YEAR!

YOUNG VAN MAN • Sam Cullen is only 24, but already owns two classic vans; his 1963 Austin A35 daily driver, and a pre-war Fordson that he takes to shows. Mike Neale finds out more.

ERFS AT KELSALL • 275 ERFs, and at least as many other makes all in one place; it can only possibly be Kelsall 2025! David Reed reports…

TRANS PENNINE RUN 2025 • A damp start to the 54th Trans Pennine, but brighter weather by the finish, and a strong turnout. David Reed reports…

Jennings-cabbed ERFs • Mike Neale looks at miniature ERFs with the pre-1954 coachbuilt cabs

WORKING LORRIES OF THE 1980s • Regular CVC Reader David Welsh recently rediscovered some lorry photographs that he took in the 1980s and wondered if we’d like to take and look and maybe share them..

PAPWORTH PYE • Our series of archive images from the Papworth Coachworks/Alan Robinson collection continues with a look at some of the specialist vehicle bodywork built for Pye Telecommunications.

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COMING UP IN THE NOVEMBER 2025 ISSUE - OUT FRIDAY OCTOBER 24