It's our 60th anniversary and we're poring over our favourite covers from the past six decades. This week it's the 1980s. Join greenofrichmond and CARPhilMc as they look back at the magic of our boldest cover treatments 1⃣9⃣8⃣0⃣s
► Third instalment: front covers of the ’80s
CAR magazine is turning 60 this autumn – providing the perfect chance to revisit some of our greatest front covers from the past six decades. Your can read more about ourThis week, we present our favourites from the newsstands of the 1980s. The newest covers start at the top and you can scroll back to the origins of CAR magazine, as Small Car & Mini Owner launched in September 1962 and quickly established a reputation for pioneering journalism, stand-out design and provocative coverlines.
Stay tuned in the weeks ahead as we ask four former editors Mel Nichols , Gavin Green , Greg Fountain and Phil McNamara to name their favourite CAR magazine covers from their era, and the stories behind them.Gavin Green, who remains our chief contributor today, edited CAR throughout much of the 1980s. He remembers this cover well: ‘A CAR scoop – we were first with the new Disco drive – and while others were doing their photo shots in a Midlands gravel pit, we were crossing the Sahara.
Come back to CAR in the coming weeks, as we continue our countdown – with the best magazine covers from the 1980s, 90s, 00s and 10s, with commentary from the editors of the time
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