My Classic Car Info-All that you need to know about acquiring, owning, restoring and maintaining a UK or European classic car of the Fifties and Sixties.

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 as well as the people who pioneered industry development during the exciting decades of the Fifties and Sixties,Classic Car Info also proudly present our vast and ever-growing collection of articles providing practical advise on how to restore and maintain classic cars of the period.

We have pulled out all the stops to explain, in layman's terms, how to carry out a wide range of restoration and maintenance procedures that cover the following:

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, private cars became an increasingly common sight on the roads of UK and Europe -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 giant US car manufacturing companies , Ford, Chrysler and General Motors(Vauxhall).

Constant advances in technology meant that cars were improving all the time, both 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 vehicle manufacturers would come up wiith a number of iconic new models: designs that have stood the test of time, 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 across the region.

Almost tragically, these buoyant times failed to last, waning after little more than a decade.

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 their self- imposed 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.

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