My Classic Car Info is a group of four websites recalling the rise of the UK and European car industry during of the Fifties and Sixties as it recovered from the traumas and devastation of the Second World War.

As well providing a comprehensive glossary of all the classic cars produced during that exciting era and the people who pioneered their development during the exciting decades of the Fifties and Sixties, My Classic Car Info also proudly presents literary hundreds of articles on how to restore and maintain classic cars of the period.

In these sites, we have pulled out all the stops to explain in laymen's terms how to carry out a wide range of procedures covering the following: restoring and maintaining classic car auto-electric systems ,restoring and maintaining classic car mechanical systems underbody systems ,restoring and maintaining classic car bodywork and paintwork ,restoring and maintaining classic car interior and exterior trim ,restoring and maintaining classic car upholstery and carpets and, no less important, tips and tricks on how to get started in the classic car industry.

Owning a car in the pre-war years was a privilege usually reserved for the middle class and upwards, although the increasing prosperity of the Fifties and onwards, owning a private car became increasingly common -thanks to the advent of mass-production, which brought prices down.

Also significant in the growth of the UK car industry (and to a lesser extent, to the industry in Western Europe) was the increasing prescence and positive influence of the US car manufacturing conglomerates ,in particular Ford, Chrysler and General Motors( Vauxhall).

Owning a car in the pre-war years was a privilege usually reserved for the middle class and upwards, although the increasing prosperity of the Fifties and onwards, owning a private car became increasingly common -thanks to the advent of mass-production, which brought prices down.

Also significant in the growth of the UK car industry (and to a lesser extent, to the industry in Western Europe) was the increasing prescence and positive influence of the US car manufacturing conglomerates ,in particular Ford, Chrysler and General Motors( Vauxhall).

Constant advances in technology meant that cars were improving all the time in terms of appearance and performance.

By the beginning of the Sixties, the UK and European car industries were riding on the crest of a wave of success that,at the time, seemed would last forever.

It seemed that every season UK and European manufacturers would come up wiith a number of iconic new models, Designs that have stood the test of time,and coming from not only the industry giants such as Jaguar, Rolls Royce and the industry changing Mini in the UK but also from Mercedes-Benz and Porsche in West Germany, Alfa Romeo and Fiat in Italy,Citroen in France as well as many more independants.

Almost tragically these buoyant times failed to last little more than a decade, and by the Seventies, the UK car industry was mainly in ruin.

The Golden Age for the UK car industry was over almost as soon as it had begun- not due to a lack of demand- which never faltered - but to the complete failure of the UK car giants to keep pace with the strong competition coming from the Far East and Western Europe, while the huge British conglomerates wallowed in a sickbed of sub-standard management and constant labour disputes.

Relative to the millions of cars produced in the UK and Western Europe during the Fifties and Sixties, very few survived, with most of them stored in old buildings and lockups, largely forgotten.

We hope you will enjoy our websites as much as we enjoy creating them!!.