It's the second instalment of our greatest covers of CAR magazine from the past six decades: this week, the 1970s – with memories and picks from Mel_Nichols 🎂 CAR60
► Second instalment: front covers of the ’70s and ’60s
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 1970s. The newest covers start at the top and you can scroll back to the origins of CAR magazine, as it 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.Mel Nichols, editor of CAR during much of the 1970s, looks back at the covers of this period. ‘This powerful scoop cover revealed the shape and detail of the radical 1980 Escort, a year before its launch,’ he recalls.
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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