Press and data requests

British Classic Cars holds one of the larger private datasets of classic car auction results: 621,935 recorded lots from 51 auction houses, 1988 to August 2026, of which 473,270 are sold prices. We use it to publish market studies whose figures and charts anyone may reuse under CC BY 4.0, with a link back, and to answer questions the price guides cannot: what a model actually sells for, how that has moved after inflation, and how often one comes up at all.

Published studies

• Classic cars vs the stock market (2026): We took 621,935 auction results, found every British classic with enough sales to measure fairly, and compared its inflation-adjusted price change since the late 1990s with the stock market, gold and cash. Most classics rose in cash terms; barely half beat inflation; gold beat every one of them.

What we can provide

Every study page carries its charts as PNG, its ranking as a CSV and an embed snippet for the headline chart. Beyond that, we can cut the data to a brief: a single marque or model, a decade, a price band, a region, UK sales only, or a comparison we have not published. Turnaround for a simple cut is usually a day. We can also supply a named quote from the editor.

Two rules we hold to. The figures we publish are sold prices, inflation-adjusted where we say so, with the sample size attached, and we will not strip the sample size to make a number look firmer than it is. And we derive our own medians, ranges and trends from the results; we do not republish any auction house's or valuation service's own figures.

How to ask

Email press@britishclassiccars.co.uk, or use the contact form, and say you are press, what the piece is and when it runs. Our editorial standards set out how the site is written and corrected, and about says who is behind it.

Coverage

This section lists outlets that have cited our data, as they do.