Sector

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.

£7.3bn
annual contribution of the historic-vehicle sector to the UK economy; 2,700 specialist businesses employ 34,500 people
1,934,178
historic vehicles on DVLA's register

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.

£4,567
average annual spend by a historic-vehicle owner on their vehicle
£18,564
paid for a Jaguar E-Type aluminium bonnet, the most expensive part sold on eBay UK in 2025

Classic & 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.

Talk to the pit wall

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.

Visitdijitul, 11 St John Street, Mansfield NG18 1QJ
We reply within one working day. No mailing lists, no hard sell.
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