Free online classic car magazine and community

www.classic-cars-online is a new free online magazine that deals with all issues of classic car ownership from club runs to restorations. Take a look, and if you have any articles you would like to submit then please email them to snipped-for-privacy@classic-cars-online.co.uk . Also if you have a car currently for sale please visit the cars for sale link and use the email link there to forward a photo details and we will try to include your car on our site free of charge.

Many Thanks

The Classic-Cars-Online team

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John & Lisa

Works here......

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Gordon

What they omit to say is that it's in the US!

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Gordon

The carelessness that can't even get the url correct shows throughout the site (or what bit of it there is): mis-spellings, grammatical errors, and distorted photos abound. Ease of reading wasn't top priority, either.

Why don't people get a bit of content before they launch sites like this?

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Autolycus

I do apologise for my carelessness with the url. it should read

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. Thank you for pointing out this silly error. As for your other comments if you can point out where the mistakes lie, and make helpful suggestions on how to improve the website in general they would be much appreciated.

The Classic-Cars-Online Team

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<info

Added a .com to the URL and got: Classic Cars Online, LLC. is located in the Cleveland, Ohio area.

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John & Lisa

Aarrr... it's a co.uk URL.

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John & Lisa

Looks nice enough to me. Though this newsgroup makes the forum rather superfluous, IMO. The thing that leapt out at me was the distortion of some of the images in the for-sale section. Rectangular photos trying to fit into square holes. If they really have to be square, they should be cropped to that shape first rather than forced.

BTW, the site very nearly validates correctly - it'd be worth making the small changes recommended by the html validator on

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Properly validated html provides a warm glow inside and gives smug bastards like us something less to moan about.

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Willy Eckerslyke

I agree about the forum being somewhat less than useful. Even with the squashed images it is vastly better than the merkin pile of poo that loaded when I clicked the first link. With a bit of care with the images and a tweak here and there, it has the makings of a good and useful site.

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Richard H Huelin

Also it makes the classic mistake of setting background colours in html and the foreground colours in stylesheets. Ugh! Black text on a dark blue background isn't easy to read. Always set both colours in the same place so that contrast is preserved whether the browser supports css or not.

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Richard Porter

Bwahahaha.

Just looked at the 'For Sale' section.

£5995 for a 1981 Spitfire?

Oh dear......

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SteveH

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Willy Eckerslyke saying something like:

In the 'about us' page the thumbnails load as full-size jpegs but thumbnail in size - a truly dreadful clanger.

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Grimly Curmudgeon

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