About Fully Sorted
We are the part between you and the people who get your car fully sorted.
A directory of the specialists a collector car needs across an ownership year, ranked by the owners who used them. Built from inside the hobby, by people who have spent their lives around these cars.
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- trades in the directory, in the order a car meets them
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- years on lawns, in paddocks and around auction tents
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- dollars anyone can pay to rank higher
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Porsche 906
300 SLR, number 722Photographs from our founder's archive.
The name
What “fully sorted” actually means
- Starts on the button
- Temperature gauge sits where it should
- Nothing weeps onto the garage floor
- You drive it without a checklist in your head
It's British. In the UK, sorted means handled: dealt with, in order, nothing left hanging. Tell someone in London a job is sorted and they know you have finished it.
Car people took the word somewhere more specific. A sorted car is one whose faults have been chased down and fixed properly rather than bodged or ignored. It isn't necessarily restored and it certainly isn't concours. It is just right, and you can get in and drive it without thinking about it.
Getting there is the hard part, because a sorted car is rarely the work of one person. It takes a good inspector before you buy, a mechanic who knows the model, someone who will do the paint properly, a transporter who understands what they are carrying, and somewhere dry to keep it between drives.
That is the whole company, really.
How the directory is organized
The ownership year
Ten trades, in the order a car usually meets them. Check it, move it, register it, fix it, straighten it, rebuild it, trim it, clean it, store it and shoot it. Buy it, get it home, make it legal, keep it right, keep it clean, put it away, and one day sell it well. Every specialist on the platform is listed under one of these, so you search for the job, not the jargon.
01Check itPre-Purchase Inspection
“A pre-purchase inspection”
02Move itEnclosed Transport & Shipping
“Enclosed transport”
- 03Register it
Title & Registration Services
“Help getting it titled”
04Fix itService & Mechanical
“A marque specialist”
05Straighten itBody Work & Paint
“Body and paint”
06Rebuild itRestoration
“Restoration work”
- 07Trim it
Upholstery & Interior Trim
“A retrim, or one seat sorted”
08Clean itDetailing & Paint Correction
“Ceramic coating or a proper correction”
09Store itClimate-Controlled Storage
“Somewhere safe to keep it”
10Shoot itAutomotive Photography
“Photos worth the car”
How it works
The review record is the ranking
Owners leave a review after the work is done, and only after the work is done. A shop's place in the directory comes from that record and nothing else. Nobody pays to appear higher, and no average is shown until there are enough reviews to mean something.
We do not take a cut of the work. The job is between you and the specialist, priced by them, paid to them. Browsing the directory is free and being listed in it is free. Selling a car in the marketplace is a flat, one-time listing fee, stated up front, with no commission and no buyer's premium when it sells.
For owners
Search by the job. Read what other owners said. Send a brief. Review the work afterwards.
For specialists
One application, one profile, your reviews under your name. Leads arrive with the job already described.
For buyers and sellers
A marketplace where every listing says whether an owner or a dealer is selling. No auction clock, no buyer's premium, and a research hub of model histories and market data.
Why this exists
Preservation is the point
In the shopThe collector car world has a problem that isn't about cars. Great mechanics, detailers, restorers and inspectors exist everywhere, and most of them are invisible outside their own network. Finding one still means knowing someone who knows someone.
That matters more than it sounds. When help is hard to find, cars sit, get bodged, get parted out, or disappear into permanent storage. And the people who know how to prep paint for a concours lawn, or who grew up rebuilding air-cooled engines, are not being replaced at the rate they are retiring. A platform that makes ownership easier keeps more cars on the road. One that keeps those specialists busy keeps the knowledge alive.
Every specialist in this world built their reputation one referral at a time. We want to give them something better than word of mouth.
Let's get it sorted.
Work on cars?
Join the directory, build your review record, and get in front of owners who value the work.
Own one?
Tell us what the car needs, or tell us who should be on here. We read everything.