James Williams

Founder & Editor, Classic Car Clubs UK

James Williams is the founder and editor of Classic Car Clubs UK.

He spent seven years with Frost, the auto restoration specialists, as their contracted digital marketing manager. The job put him on trade stands and sponsor pitches at classic car events the length of the country, and taught him how the club scene really works: who runs it, what keeps it alive, and how hard it can be to find.

When he later found club information scattered across dead forums and out-of-date social pages, he built the directory the scene was missing.

He has spent more than twenty years building for the web and runs Zenified, the studio behind this site, which also builds websites for car clubs.

Get in touch via the contact page.

Recent articles by James

The Cars We Didn't Save: a new book about the classics we scrapped by the million

12 August 2026

In 1994 there were 1,231,963 Vauxhall Cavaliers licensed in Great Britain. By early 2026 there were 871 left on the road. Lee Brickley's new book asks where they all went, and it might be the most quietly upsetting classic car read of the year.

The recreations took the hit: what late July actually paid

11 August 2026

I said the Hamilton collection's recreations would sit in a more resilient pool of the market than the seven-figure originals. The room disagreed. Here is what late July paid, and why the real E-types were the ones that held.

Six classic car events to put in your August 2026 diary

03 August 2026

A centenary at Brooklands, sixty years of the HSCC at Castle Combe, Italy taking over Brands Hatch, and a bank holiday weekend with more clashes than any sane person can solve. Here is the August shortlist.

How to attract classic car clubs to your venue

31 July 2026

Classic car clubs book on quiet days, spend properly at the bar and come back every year if you look after them. A practical guide for hoteliers, publicans and event spaces on what clubs actually want from a venue.

How to reach classic car bidders and entrants

31 July 2026

Entries follow bidders, bidders follow the calendar, and the calendar is not in a glossy magazine any more. A guide for auction houses and event organisers on where Britain's classic car buyers actually plan their year.

A hundred years since the Grand Prix came to Brooklands

27 July 2026

On 7 August 1926 nine cars started Britain's first Grand Prix at Brooklands and only three of them finished. The centenary falls on Saturday 8 August, the museum has already sold out, and there is still one way in.

The Hamilton collection, and the late-July auction test at Silverstone

13 July 2026

Anthony Hamilton is selling 26 cars at the inaugural BRDC Classic, most of them Jaguars, in the very half-year Jaguar has been the softest marque in Britain. That, plus a lakeside sale near Windsor and a busy fortnight of volume rooms, makes late July the real test of the 2026 market.

Ninety Years On: The Bentley Drivers Club

06 July 2026

One of our showcase clubs turns ninety in 2026. It began with a card tucked under a windscreen wiper at Brooklands, and it has a very good summer ahead.

Six classic car events to put in your July 2026 diary

05 July 2026

The season's busiest month is already rolling. From a Wiltshire museum road run and the oldest hill in the sport to a field of gloriously ordinary saloons, here are the six July fixtures worth clearing a weekend for.

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