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HCVA Advisory Group

  • Jeremy Barker

    Founder owner of CARS UK in 1989 with over 35 years of experience in automotive shipping.

    Having been at the cutting edge of various policy changes with HMRC, particularly over the thorny subject of Historic Interest classification, he has gained a wealth of experience and knowledge in the approach HMRC interpret and enact EU guidelines (in relation to motor vehicles), even though the UK is now no longer a member.

  • James Mitchell

    James was the Business Manager of one of the world’s leading historic car sales businesses for over a decade, before founding Pendine Historic Cars Ltd in 2014, specialising in the sales of important post-war British sports racing cars.

    He founded Speed Age Books in 2015, a small publishing company producing bespoke books on historically significant cars. James also writes features for leading industry publications. With two young children, the future of the historic and classic vehicle industry is of paramount importance to him.

  • Malcolm McKay

    Joining Classic Cars magazine as Clubs Editor in 1989, Malcolm rose to Deputy then Acting Editor before leaving in 1999 to pursue a freelance career – during which he has written for magazines and newspapers worldwide, and taken part in rallies around the globe.

    Malcolm writes for publications from Classic & Sports Car to the Daily Telegraph, maintains an independent classic Price Guide and runs ClassicRallyPress Ltd, organising classic car rallies around Europe.

  • Tomas de Vargas Machuca

    Tomas de Vargas Machuca is Chairman and Co-Founder of HERO-ERA the UK’s leading classic car events platform. HERO-ERA are industry supporters by way of charitable contributions to the Federation of Skills Academy and have more recently published together with a leading research firm Cebr and economic and environmental impact study to bring awareness to the importance of our sector.

    HERO-ERA have also become the first classic car platform globally to be fully decarbonised and will shortly launching an initiative to allow individual classic and historical vehicles to do the same. Tomas has also served as CEO in publicly listed real estate companies in Germany and the Netherlands.

  • Duncan Wiltshire

    Duncan Wiltshire is Chairman of Motor Racing Legends, one of Europe’s leading organisers of Historic motor sport. Formerly an executive in the Construction Industry, Duncan has led Motor Racing Legends for the past twenty years, establishing a full programme of successful Historic race series.

    Duncan grew up around historic cars, enjoying many family adventures as a youngster and has raced an elderly vintage Bentley for over thirty years. He is currently President of the Bentley Drivers Club and sits on the Motoring Committee of the Royal Automobile Club.

    He has two sons, keen to embark on their own lives in the world of classic cars.

  • Emma Crickmay - Chair

    Joint Managing Director of Frank Dale & Stepsons Ltd, the oldest independent specialist of Rolls Royce and Bentley worldwide. Together with her brother Giles Crickmay, Emma runs the family business which is now 75 years old.

    Before joining the firm on a permanent basis Emma worked in an advisory role with the Chief Executives, Chairs and Boards of an NGO and later a philanthropic organisation engaging with government departments and private business to affect sustainable change in various areas of society. 

  • Mark Roper

    Mark has had a long and esteemed career within Financial Services, Loyalty and Membership. On leaving education he joined a management intake at Lloyds Bank, one of the UK’s largest financial institutions. He rose to become Head of Loyalty, managing programs for the banks most valuable clients. 

    At American Express he held a number of senior leadership positions across B2B an B2C, culminating in running the UK and Nordics Merchant Services business. At Aon, Mark led the UK Consumer, Private Client and SME businesses building affinity and membership through insurance. He has been at Hagerty for one year where he is Managing Director of the UK business and is also charged with growing Hagerty’s presence into Europe.

  • David Sculthorpe

    David is a Director of MGOC Spares Ltd and Castrol Classic Oils and has been working with Classic Cars since the early 1970s. He has been actively engaged in developing a global market for both companies,  actively sourcing quality remanufactured parts to original specifications from overseas and UK sources,  and for all marques of British Classic Cars. Keeping these cars on the road at reasonable cost, improving reliability and performance to equal modern traffic conditions, and encouraging owners to use their vehicles regularly has been his lifetime’s work, and continues with a high number of development projects currently underway.

    Achievements include developing the range of upgrades and improvements offered by MGOC Accessories, creating bespoke bodyshells with British Motor Heritage Ltd to build MGB V8 Roadsters, and becoming an Ambassador Distributor for Castrol UK Ltd specialising in the Classic Oils market.