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. His background is in research and development as an academic and scholar and he 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.
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.
Paul is the founding chairman of the Historic Vehicle Research Institute and a member of the Society of Automotive Historians and the UK Motoring Collections Network. He is co-author of the 2006 reports ‘Maintaining our Transport Heritage’ on the Historic Vehicle Movement in the UK and ‘Maintaining our Mobile Transport Heritage’ the largest ever Europe-wide survey of the historic vehicle movement.
Toby Russell
Toby 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 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, www.Landroverbase.com and www.bookbase.co.uk also with many other high profile sites.
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 supported by Janine and Hayley. Bee loves to be part of the team, building a bigger and better site with lots of useful information for classic vehicle enthusiast.
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.
Now in the shop
 MG'S ABINGDON FACTORY
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 Triumph in Spring
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 TRIUMPH BONNEVILLE - The Essential Buyer's Guide
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 Gear Knob Pen/Note Holder
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