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Digital agency for classic car dealers and specialists
A classic car dealer website has one job: convince a buyer in Zurich or Texas to wire six figures for a car they have only seen on screen. That takes provenance, high-production imagery and video, international SEO and a fast, secure site. We build those, plus parts stores and workshop portals for the rest of the historic-vehicle trade.
The historic-vehicle sector is bigger than most people outside it realise. The FBHVC's 2025 survey puts it at £7.3 billion a year, 2,700 specialist businesses and 34,500 people, serving 1.93 million historic vehicles whose owners spend an average of £4,567 a year on them. That money flows through classic and prestige dealers, restoration workshops, storage businesses, parts remanufacturers and specialist insurers. Dealers at the top end sell globally and are judged against Collecting Cars, Car & Classic and PistonHeads Auctions, where the listing quality sets the expectation for every private-treaty sale.
The data problem is the opposite of the modern-car trade. There is no TecDoc for a 1968 E-Type or a Series II Land Rover; parts change by chassis number, engine number and production split, and the catalogue is a factory parts book, a remanufacturer's spreadsheet and thirty years of someone's memory. That makes a classic parts store a bespoke fitment project, not a Shopify template. DVLA VES can confirm historic tax class and first registration, but the real provenance lives in files, photos, invoices and heritage certificates, and buyers want to see it before they enquire. On the workshop side, restorations run for months or years and customers expect updates they can share, not a phone call every quarter.
We build for how this trade actually sells. Dealer sites get gallery-first stock pages with ordered high-resolution photography, video, downloadable histories and enquiry routes for international buyers, hosted fast enough for a US visitor at midnight. Parts stores get chassis-number and production-split fitment tables built from your parts books, OE and remanufactured cross-references and eBay compatibility where it exists. Workshops get a customer portal for restoration progress, photos and invoices. Around all of it we run international SEO for marque and model terms, paid social that reaches collectors rather than tyre-kickers, and the content that makes your name the one the auction sites quote.
The usual problems
- Six-figure cars sold from thin listings
Twelve dark photos, no video, no history file and an enquiry form nobody answers on a Saturday is not how a collector in another time zone buys.
- No catalogue standard for classic parts
TecDoc does not cover out-of-production models, so fitment by chassis number and production split has to be built and maintained by you.
- Restoration customers left in the dark
Long projects, big invoices and no portal for progress photos, approvals or documents leave customers anxious and staff answering the same emails.
- Auction platforms take the consignments
Collecting Cars and Car & Classic set the standard for listing quality and bidder reach, and private-treaty dealers have to match it to win stock.
- Skills shortage and recruitment
Almost half of historic-vehicle businesses offer or plan apprenticeships, but few have a recruitment page that shows the work and the workshop.
What we do for classic & prestige
Services built around this trade
Build
automotive web design
Gallery-led stock and workshop sites with fast image delivery, downloadable history files and enquiry handling built for international buyers.
Web DesignGrow
automotive content marketing
Photography direction, walkaround and driving video and provenance copy that let a car sell itself to a buyer who cannot visit.
Content & VideoGrow
automotive SEO
Marque and model authority pages, multi-country targeting and structured stock pages so a search for a specific model anywhere in the world finds you.
Automotive SEOBuild
car parts ecommerce
Classic parts stores with chassis-number and production-split fitment, remanufactured and OE cross-references and export-ready checkout.
Car Parts eCommerceSoftware
automotive software development
Restoration progress portals, storage booking and vehicle-file management that replace email threads and shared drives.
Software DevelopmentIntegrations
eBay Motors integration
Sell the parts that do have K-Type coverage on eBay from the same stock, and list the rest with hand-built compatibility notes.
eBay Motors IntegrationGrow
automotive paid social
Meta and YouTube campaigns aimed at collectors, marque-club members and event audiences rather than the general car-buying public.
Paid SocialVehicle data
Data that does the heavy lifting
number plate lookup API
A number plate lookup API turns 'enter your reg' into a vehicle record your store can act on: make, model, engine, K-Type.
Reg Lookup Integrationvehicle fitment data
Vehicle fitment data is what tells a buyer 'this fits your car'.
Part Fitment Mappingproduct data enrichment automotive
The product data enrichment automotive retailers need is unglamorous: deduplicated SKUs, normalised part numbers, OE cross-references, attributes pulled from TecDoc or PIES, GTINs and images that pass marketplace checks.
Product Data Enrichmentvehicle data API
Choosing a vehicle data API in the UK means choosing between DVLA VES, DVSA MOT History, UKVD/VDG, cap hpi, HPI, Experian AutoCheck and MotorCheck.
Vehicle Data APIClassic & Prestige: common questions
What should a classic car dealer website include for each car?
Forty or more ordered high-resolution photos, a video, a written history with ownership chain and work done, scans or a downloadable history file, chassis and engine numbers where appropriate, price or POA, and an enquiry route that works for overseas buyers, including WhatsApp.
Can you build a parts store for a marque with no TecDoc data?
Yes. We build the fitment tables from your factory parts books and remanufacturer data, keyed by chassis number ranges, production splits and engine variants, then attach OE and reproduction cross-references so searches by any number land on the right part.
How do we reach overseas buyers for prestige and classic stock?
International SEO on marque and model terms, stock pages with structured data and multi-currency display, fast global hosting, and paid social targeted at collectors and marque communities in the US, Europe and the Middle East.
Can customers follow a restoration online?
Yes. We build a customer portal where the workshop posts photos, hours and invoices against each project, the customer approves work stages, and documents such as heritage certificates are stored with the car. It cuts the update emails and builds the history file as you go.
Do you work with restoration workshops and storage businesses as well as dealers?
Yes. The same trade covers dealers, restorers, storage, parts remanufacturers and specialist insurers, and we build sites, portals, booking systems and parts stores for all of them, often for one business that does several.
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Let's talk about your classic and prestige business
Tell us what you sell, fix, break or race and what is getting in the way. We will come back within one working day with a straight answer and, if it fits, a fixed-price scope.