Bought a car on eBay, Auto Trader, Facebook Marketplace or at an online auction, and now need it bringing home? That’s what I do. I’m Will, I run WS Logistics from Hambleton on the Fylde coast, and I collect cars from private sellers, dealers and auction houses all over the UK and deliver them to your door, fully insured and with a live tracking link so you can follow the car all the way.
If you’ve watched Bangers and Cash on Yesterday, you’ll know Mathewsons. It’s a family business at Thornton-le-Dale on the edge of the North York Moors, run by Derek Mathewson, his sons Paul and Dave and now the grandchildren. The family started out in 1970 selling everyday cars and commercials in Bedfordshire, moved to North Yorkshire in the late eighties, and over the years classics became the business. Today they hold auctions throughout the year, putting thousands of classic cars, motorbikes, commercials and bits of motoring memorabilia under the hammer, with buyers bidding from all over the world.
The TV cameras arrived in 2019, and the show has made the family, and their yard full of barn finds and rusty projects, famous well beyond Yorkshire. I’ve watched it for years, so collecting a car from there was a real privilege. The auction has moved on from the premises in the early series, but walk through the doors and it’s all still there: the classics lined up under the lights, the old enamel signs and petrol pumps, even a circus fire engine.
The car I’d come for was a lot more modest: a tidy silver Vauxhall Astra, won by a private buyer in Fleetwood through Mathewsons’ online auction. He bid and won from his own sofa, and the next question was how to get it home from the other side of the Pennines. The collection day was booked with Mathewsons in advance, then I loaded and strapped the Astra on the trailer and brought it to his door in Fleetwood, with him following along on the tracking link.
Most of the online car purchases I collect come from the same handful of places: eBay, Auto Trader, Facebook Marketplace, Gumtree, PistonHeads and Car & Classic, plus dealer websites and online auctions such as Mathewsons. I’m also an approved transporter for BCA and Manheim, the big trade auctions.
Wherever you bought it, the job is the same. You tell me where the car is and where it’s going, I arrange collection with the seller or the auction house, and the car travels on the trailer rather than being driven, so it arrives without extra miles on the clock or stone chips from the motorway.
Buying from further afield opens up far more cars than you’ll find locally. Getting it home shouldn’t be the hard part.
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Tell me where the car is, where it’s going and roughly when, and I’ll come back to you with a price. Call or WhatsApp 07385 672501, or email info@ws-logistics.co.uk. Nationwide, insured, and run by the owner.
