Meet the Team

Paul Frost

Paul has always been interested in historic cars and motorcycles. He has spent a lot of time riding bikes on the dirt in Wales and on European roads. Currently he owns a Daimler Double Six from 1982. His background is in research and development as an academic and scholar. Paul completed his PhD in 1987. He first became interested in historic vehicles as an academic by researching vehicles sold at auction and collecting data from the main UK auction houses including chassis numbers, engine numbers, registration numbers, engine size, vehicle colour etc.. Paul is the founding chairman of the Historic Vehicle Research Institute.

By a happy coincidence he was introduced to Toby Russell who had compiled a database of marques and models. The result was the foundation of the authoritative collections of data that now drive motorbase.

Along with the other members of motorbase Paul is committed to building the definitive historic vehicle web portal in the world, founded on encyclopaedic knowledge, powerful data and useful information.

Toby Russell

Toby is one of the founders of Motorbase. He began constructing a database of car specifications when he became worried that our knowledge of small, specialist marques was literally dying out. As a collector of some of these types of vehicles he had a personal interest in trying to help them survive. Making it easier for people to know about them, restore, renovate and maintain them is a key part of that goal. He is enthusiastic about Motorbase because it works hard to support these devotees, their cars and a slice of UK motoring heritage.

When he met Paul and Bee his interests and data sets were great complements for each just as their different skills sets and interests and people fit well together.
He is also the technology wizard who controls the functionality and shape of the Motorbase site. He applies his many undoubted skills on Motorbase and its sister sites, including www.Landroverbase.com also with many other high profiles sites in the area of sports and motoring.


Bee Frost

Bee’s background is in business. She did not know much about cars at first but is learning all the time. Used to own a Volvo 1800ES and now rather dismayed to find that time has moved on and it is now considered a classic.

Bee has been responsible for much of the data organisation and collection. Data on the site is entered by Janine, Deborah and Hayley. They are waiting to receive your feedback, updates, comments and questions. If they don’t know the answer, they will try to direct you to the person who does.

Bee loves to be part of the team, building a bigger and better site with lots of useful information for classic vehicle enthusiasts.

Malcolm McKay

Paul Beard

Paul is 38 and has lived in the Bournemouth area of the UK all his life, except for a couple of stints in the Highlands of Scotland. He has had a very keen interest in cars since the age of 13 or so and has nurtured a love of the English language and writing for even longer than that. He started to get into motoring writing in the late eighties and began to get a few articles published in local newspapers and national car magazines. A few years in the library at Beaulieu helped him develop his skills and certainly boosted his motoring knowledge. He is currently working on getting an encyclopaedia of British Ford Cars published. Interested publishers can contact via his email. His main car passion is Ferrari and if they float your boat too then his own sitewww.ferrarizine.blogspot.com may interest you.

When he’s not writing books or adding to Motorbase part of his daily work also involves fixing Apple Macs for people and training them on Apple too. For more details see www.paulsapplesource.blogspot.com. In his spare time, he likes to visit classic car shows, country shows, go walking in the country all with his fiancée Kate; they are to be married in April 2008, and he says, he can’t wait.

“… whatever the weather, enjoy your motoring.”

Craig Carter

Craig is a car nut through and through, who loves tinkering with his Jaguar Mark II, Lotus Turbo Esprit and Audi A6 TDI SEV. He spent his formative years working evenings and weekends at a local garage in the same road as his childhood home, cutting his teeth on such British Automotive greats as Austin Princess', Mini Metro's, Vauxhall Vivas, MG Maestros, Montegos along with various other foreign Marques.  Further to his Education at Brighton's Technical College, he joined Ricardo Consulting Engineers, taking on a more serious role in the design, development and testing of Engines, Fuels and Lubricants, from the past present and indeed the future.

Very few had the opportunity of driving a prototype Jaguar XJ220 flat out for noise testing and then jumping straight into a Moskovitch 2.0 16 Valve, based on the Talbot Solara bodyshell!!

Two years ago, he bought a small family Garage business in Seaford East Sussex, which has already reached capacity in terms of the amount of customers that it can cater for. To accommodate this apparent popularity of his services, he has recently acquired a somewhat larger, second Garage Business in Uckfield East Sussex, which is around four times the size of the Seaford operation and has MOT facilities for both Cars & Motorcycles (he looks after 1928 Rudge Whitworths, Triumphs, Harleys, Matchless and other two wheeled exotica). There are seven fully functional Vehicle bays, a comfortable reception, Forecourt and a Showroom, currently housing his Mark II Jaguar, a customer's DAX Cobra and his own 1950 Zephyr pedal car! In his efforts to remain in the modern world, his core business is the care of modern vehicles along with up to date Diagnostics facilities and he also has the South East UK Superchips franchise, providing performance upgrades to most modern Petrol, Diesel and Turbocharged Vehicles.

Craig is always happy to offer fellow enthusiasts the benefit of his experience and can always be reached in working hours at his Uckfield branch on 01825 768316.