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165                    <div class="intro-content__overline">Shaping the automotive web since 1998</div>
166                    <h1 class="intro-content__big-type">David Edmonston</h1>
167                    <p class="intro-content__desc lead">
168                        Hello, I'm Dave and I've been instrumental in creating a number of famous motoring websites.
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194                        <h2 data-num="01" class="section-title">About</h2>
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204                        <p class="lead">
205                            It all started with a ZX81.
206<br/>
207<br/>
208                            I started programming at the age of twelve and this opened up a career that has zigged and zagged
209                            into a fabulous adventure.
210                        <br/>
211                        <br/>
212                            Coding isn't just sitting in a dark room...
213                        </p>
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216                    <div class="grid-block__item s-about__main">
217                        <p>
218                            It was 1998 when I combined my love of cars and technology to create <b>PISTONHEADS.COM</b>.
219                            What started out as a broadcast only online magazine, morphed into
220                            a thriving community, events and ultimately a highly successful c
220ar sales platform.
221                        </p>
222
223                        <p>
224                            I've enjoyed some other wins along the way, most notably architecting <b>COLLECTINGCARS.COM</b> and
225                            whilst I'm still pursuing that and other ventures, I also love to help others get their
226                            digital businesses established.
227                        </p>
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251                <div class="column xl-8 md-12 s-profile-block__content-end">
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254                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--work">
255                            <div class="info-card__header">
256                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Investor & System Architect</h5>
257                                <p class="info-card__entity"><a href="https://www.collectingcars.com">Collecting
258                                    Cars</a></p>
259                                <p class="info-card__date">2019 — present</p>
260                            </div>
261                            <p class="info-card__desc">
262                                I invested in CC in 2019, excited by how it removed the stress of selling collectable
263                                cars. I got stuck right in and created the robust architecture that forms the underlying
264                                tech to this day (we've now sold over $1B worth of cars!).
265                            </p>
266                        </div>
267
268                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--work">
269                            <div class="info-card__header">
270                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Founder</h5>
271                                <p class="info-card__entity">MotorMutt.com</p>
272                                <p class="info-card__date">2011 — 2016</p>
273                            </div>
274                            <p class="info-card__desc">
275                                I created a "Multi-Niche" car sales platform that was used by Evo Magazine, Octane
276                                Magazine, Land Rover Monthly and AutoClassics.com.
277                            </p>
278                        </div>
279
280
281                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--work">
282                            <div class="info-card__header">
283                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Founder</h5>
284                                <p class="info-card__entity"><a href="https://www.pistonheads.com">PistonHeads</a></p>
285                                <p class="info-card__date">1998 — 2007</p>
286                            </div>
287                            <p class="info-card__desc">
288                                My 'online car magazine' became one of the world's most successful online car
289                                communities.
290                            </p>
291                            <p>I exited in 2007 with a sale to Haymarket Publishing.</p>
292                        </div>
293
294                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--work">
295                            <div class="info-card__header">
296                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Early Career</h5>
297                                <p class="info-card__date">1987 — 1999</p>
298                            </div>
299                            <p class="info-card__desc">
300                                I worked for a number of software houses and consultancies, before entering the
301                                financial sector, designing systems for Fidelity Investments and Lehman Brothers.
302                            </p>
303                        </div>
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316                <div class="column xl-4 md-12 s-profile-block__content-start">
317                    <h2 data-num="03" class="section-title">What I Do Now</h2>
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324                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--services">
325                            <div class="info-card__header">
326                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Founder</h5>
327                                <p class="info-card__entity"><a href="https://www.drivingmasters.uk">Driving Masters</a>
328                                </p>
329                                <p class="info-card__date">2024 — present</p>
330                            </div>
331                            <p class="info-card__desc">
332                                I've created a nationwide network of super experienced advanced driving instructors. We
333                                deliver advanced Roadcraft coaching to new drivers, performance car owners and small
334                                businesses.
335                            </p>
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337
338                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--services">
339                            <div class="info-card__header">
340                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Director</h5>
341                                <p class="info-card__entity"><a href="https://www.thecollectinggroup.com">The Collecting Group</a>
342                                </p>
343                                <p class="info-card__date">2019 — present</p>
344                            </div>
345                            <p class="info-card__desc">
346                                Co-director and board advisor at TCG (Collecting Cars & Watch Collecting).
347                            </p>
348                        </div>
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350                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--services">
351                            <div class="info-card__header">
352                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Software Development</h5>
353                            </div>
354                            <p class="info-card__desc">
355                                I'm still a very active software nerd, embracing modern frameworks and keeping abreast of AI.
356                            </p>
357                            <p class="info-card__desc">
358                                There are always a few side projects bubbling away...
359                            </p>
360                        </div>
361                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--services">
362                            <div class="info-card__header">
363                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Advisor</h5>
364                            </div>
365                            <p class="info-card__desc">
366                                I work with a number of startups in the car/tech space advising on technology, marketing and
367                                strategy.
368                            </p>
369                            <p class="info-card__desc">
370                                This I love the most. I really enjoy working with smart people trying to do exciting
371                                things.
372                            </p>
373                        </div>
374                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--services">
375                            <div class="info-card__header">
376                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Facilitator</h5>
377                                <p class="info-card__entity"><a href="https://startupsync.org">Startup Sync</a></p>
378                            </div>
379                            <p class="info-card__desc">
380                                Paying it forward - helping a small community of bootstrapped startups.
381                            </p>
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388                                                        <p class="info-card__desc">
389                                                        Delivering complete product designs from early wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes, tailored for startups and digital teams.
390                                                        </p>
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392                                                    <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card&#45;&#45;services">
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397                                                        Conducting interviews, usability testing, and analysis to inform design decisions and improve user engagement.
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413                                                        Producing effective marketing materials — including social media graphics, digital ads, email templates, and presentations.
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430                <div class="column xl-4 md-12 s-profile-block__content-start">
431                    <h2 data-num="04" class="section-title">Stuff I Know About</h2>
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434                <div class="column xl-8 md-12 s-profile__content-end">
435                    <div class="grid-cols info-list">
436                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--education">
437                            <div class="info-card__header">
438                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Systems Architecture</h5>
439                            </div>
440                            <p class="info-card__desc">
441                                I've scaled two platforms from zero to over a million users. It's not always
442                                been pretty, but I learned a lot!
443                            </p>
444                            <p class="info-card__desc">
445                                APIs, App development, Amazon Web Services, security, resilience... they've given me
446                                grey hairs over the years, but I'm happy to share my experiences.
447                            </p>
448                        </div>
449                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--education">
450                            <div class="info-card__header">
451                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Marketing</h5>
452                            </div>
453                            <p class="info-card__desc">
454                                I didn't spend anything on 'hard' marketing for PistonHeads - it was all about equipping my
455                                army of advocates with every reason to talk about PH.
456                            </p>
457                            <p class="info-card__desc">
458                                Subsequent ventures have needed the word-of-mouth card played but backed up with hard
459                                spend on Google and Meta. I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on digital ads now
460                                and
461                                learned the intricacies of each platform.
462                            </p>
463                        </div>
464                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--education">
465                            <div class="info-card__header">
466                                <h5 class="info-card__title">The Stuff They Don't Tell You</h5>
467                            </div>
468                            <p class="info-card__desc">
469                                Behind the scenes of any business - particularly anything community related - is a dark
470                                side that can include the police, legal challenges, media manipulation, hackers and
471                                chancers all out to ruin your day. I can help you get ahead of such challenges.
472                            </p>
473                        </div>
474                        <div class="grid-cols__column info-card info-card--education">
475                            <div class="info-card__header">
476                                <h5 class="info-card__title">Consumer Behaviour</h5>
477                            </div>
478                            <p class="info-card__desc">
479                                I'm a keen student of consumer psychology and how to use it within systems design. There are no
480                                magic bullets, but every little understanding helps oil the wheels of ecommerce.
481                            </p>
482                        </div>
483                    </div>
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490
491       </div>
492        <div id="profile-blog" class="s-profile-block blog container">
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494            <div class="row s-profile-block__content">
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496                <div class="column xl-4 md-12 s-profile-block__content-start">
497                    <h2 data-num="05" class="section-title">My Blog</h2>
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523                    <h2 data-num="05" class="section-title">Podcasts & Interviews</h2>
524                </div>
525                <div class="column xl-8 md-12 s-works__header-end">
526                    <p class="lead">
527                        The PistonHeads story and more...
528                    </p>
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538                <div class="portfolio-item portfolio-item--featured"
539                     data-title="Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris"
540                     data-images="images/folio/Podcast-Cover.jpg"
541                     data-client="The Collecting Cars Podcast"
542                     data-date="November 2019"
543                     data-link="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7JHQPcCshHRlSFv2ze0Gf2?go=1&sp_cid=d6acdad4f79e2a09b8373d7aa53b356f&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=10e754c0e01f43cd"
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546                        <img src="images/folio/collecting-cars-podcast.jpeg" alt="The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris"
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548                        <span class="portfolio-item__title">&ldquo;The biggest single influence in the car media arena - certainly in northern Europe - in the last twenty years.&rdquo;</span>
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551                    <div class="portfolio-item__details">
552                        <div class="portfolio-item__description">
553                            <p>
554                                Chris Harris & Edward Lovett are in conversation with PistonHeads founder, David
555                                Edmonston (@PetrolTed).
556                                They chat about the birth of one of the best known automotive brands on the internet,
557                                encounters with the police, and legendary threads from the forum.
558                            </p>
559                        </div>
560                        <ul class="portfolio-item__services">
561                            <li>Chris Harris</li>
562                            <li>Edward Lovett</li>
563                        </ul>
564                    </div> <!-- portfolio-item__details -->
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566
567                <div class="portfolio-item"
568                     data-title="Takona Tlks"
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570                     data-client="Takona Tlks"
571                     data-date="March 2024"
572                     data-link="https://open.spotify.com/episode/72dbuexFf9EZ4g7GJzCGOb">
573                    <a href="#0" class="portfolio-item__link" aria-label="View Project details">
574                        <img src="images/folio/takona.jpg" alt="Takona Podcast" class="portfolio-item__thumbnail">
575                        <span class="portfolio-item__title">Dave's influence across the automotive world is somewhat profound...</span>
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578                    <div class="portfolio-item__details">
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580                            <p>
581                                Takona Tlks with Dave Edmonston, the founder of PistonHeads, now working with Collecting
582                                Cars, and has spent time building and developing websites and platforms across the
583                                automotive world. With his latest venture being helping people to learn how to better
584                                handle the roads safely.
585                            </p>
586                            <p>
587                                Dave's influence across the automotive world is somewhat profound, being behind some of
588                                the communities that have brought so many people together, and having helped to improve
589                                existing platforms that people love. On a personal level it was the piston heads forums
590                                that helped me to grow friendships with other car enthusiasts, as well as providing a
591                                plethora of interesting stories and groups that got me through long night shifts in the
592                                psychiatric hospitals.
593                            </p>
594                        </div>
595                        <ul class="portfolio-item__services">
596                            <li>Lewis Warren</li>
597                        </ul>
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601                <div class="portfolio-item"
602                     data-title="Ignition Podcast"
603                     data-images="images/folio/ignition-podcaste.jpeg"
604                     data-client="Ignition Podcast"
605                     data-date="April 2024"
606                     data-link="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6wFLE1i4IMfOjJWrH9LyU6">
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611                             alt="The Ignition Podcast"
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613                        <span class="portfolio-item__title">... one of the automotive industry's most innovative technologists</span>
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617                        <div class="portfolio-item__description">
618                            <p>
619                                Dave (Ted) Edmonston, in this week's exciting episode, we speak to one of the automotive
620                                industry's most innovative technologists. Founder of PetrolHeads, the largest online
621                                community of car enthusiasts to the CTO and CMO of Collecting Cars, the brainchild of
622                                Ed Lovett.
623                            </p>
624                            <p>
625                                Hear from Dave how he founded a new way of doing car communities and the associated ups
626                                and downs of entrepreneurship in an industry he loves.
627                            </p>
628                        </div>
629                        <ul class="portfolio-item__services">
630                            <li>Harry Phypers</li>
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635
636                <div class="portfolio-item"
637                     data-title="Driven Chat"
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639                     data-client="Amy Shore, John Marcar"
640                     data-date="January 2021"
641                     data-link="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4CN347MWpRN7BkZRDC8BEj">
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643                        <img src="images/folio/driven-chat.jpeg" alt="Driven Chat " class="portfolio-item__thumbnail">
644                        <span class="portfolio-item__title">Collecting Cars! With Ed Lovett & David Edmonston</span>
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647                    <div class="portfolio-item__details">
648                        <div class="portfolio-item__description">
649                            <p>
650                                This episode stars Ed Lovett and David Edmonston from CollectingCars.com being interviewed in their bustling London office.
651                            </p>
652                            <p>
653                                John and Amy delve deep into the new and exciting platform transforming how people buy, sell and browse cars around the world.
654                            </p>
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662                <div class="portfolio-item"
663                     data-title="Confounded TV"
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665                     data-client="Confounded TV"
666                     data-date="July 2025"
667                     data-link="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Hq9w7gFn65NGT9NKCAxFi">
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669                        <img src="images/folio/confounded-tv.jpeg" alt="Confounded TV with Alastair Campbell "
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671                        <span class="portfolio-item__title">David’s been quietly shaping some of the biggest names...</span>
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673
674                    <div class="portfolio-item__details">
675                        <div class="portfolio-item__description">
676                            <p>
677                                David Edmonston is the founder of the legendary PistonHeads.com, one of those rare founders who built something before the world was ready for it, and made it work anyway.
678                            </p>
679                            <p>
680                                PistonHeads was a site that not only transformed the way car enthusiasts connected in the early 2000s but did it before social media was even a thing. He built it from the ground up, bootstrapped the whole way, and eventually sold it to Haymarket Media in 2007.
681                            </p>
682                            <p>
683                                Since then, David’s been quietly shaping some of the biggest names in the automotive and auction world—building platforms like Collecting Cars and Watch Collecting, and most recently launching Driving Masters, a project aimed at bringing the joy of advanced driving to petrolheads everywhere.
684                            </p>
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686                        <ul class="portfolio-item__services">
687                            <li>Alastair Campbell</li>
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