Appreciating Classics was founded by lifelong enthusiasts Steve Earl and Richard Beel.

Their shared passion for rare and iconic cars began as a hobby — buying, enjoying, and passing on exceptional examples to like-minded collectors.
What started as fun quickly grew into a thriving business, built on knowledge, integrity, and a love for the chase of finding the very best cars.

Today, Appreciating Classics is a close-knit team, combining well over a century of collective experience across sales, service, fabrication and restoration.

Steve has always been into his cars. From an early age he had pictures of 80’s classics around the walls of his bedroom, including a white MK1 XR2 fiesta and a white Lamborghini Countach.

Today he owns a successful electronics display business with a multimillion pound turnover which is his full time job.
His passion for cars actually inspired him to start his electronics display company, realising that he would never be in a position to afford his dream cars if he worked for someone else.

In the past he has been lucky enough to own many beautiful cars: Porsche 911 GT3s, an Aston Martin and a classic Ferrari to name a few.

However, Steve doesn’t own nice cars for the bragging rights; it’s the cleaning he enjoys the most.

As soon as Richard was old enough to hold a spanner, he was helping build motorcycles for shows. Bikes gave birth to his passion for performance and much like Steve his childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of Supercars (mainly Lamborghini's) and Ford RS Cosworth's.

At the age of 14, he owned an extensively modified and tuned Rover SD1, and he started working for a world renowned V8 specialist, where he became familiar with high performance cars, the majority of which were an impressive list of mouth watering classics.
With an impressive history of 80's & 90's cult car's himself, Richard now leads Appreciating Classics full-time, combining his technical expertise and keen eye for detail with his lifelong passion for 80s, 90s, and 00s performance icons.

Holding multiple qualifications for motorcycle and car mechanics, the company allows him to combine his expertise with his ever growing love for all things beautiful, fast and loud.