2025 is set to be jam-packed full from start to finish with no free weekends until ’26 if you don’t want to miss a meet. So, in storms the January issue of Custom Car to get that already-moss-laden ball rolling and whet your four-wheeled appetite once again!

Registration is now open for the half-century anniversary season opener ‘Wheels Day 50’, Race Retro is returning to Stoneleigh Park in February and there’s major news from Paul Marston in the shape of plans for the Manston Raceway Park in Kent.

We have an orange takeover this month as our Willy’s Gasser front cover star gets a very worthy full-length feature and an equally ochre shop truck of Bill MacDermid’s creation takes its own fair share of the pages too.

An American dream, several wagon wheels and a trip to the museum later and you’ll still have reviews, race updates and a remarkably long list of upcoming dates for your diary to manoeuvre through.