ifndautoparts shortlisted for 2025 RAC Historic Motoring Awards!

ifndauotparts has made the short list of nominees, for the Royal Automobile Club’s 2025 Historic Motoring Awards.

These prestigious annual accolades honour companies, organisations, events, people and even cars that have been outstanding in the historic motoring sector in the last 12 months and ifndautoparts lines up as one of the three finalists for the Royal Automobile Club’s 2025 Award for Innovation, which is supported by the Federation and Sustain Fuel. 

ifndautoparts - the online parts market which, which has unashamedly been set up “by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts” - aims to help reduce the time, expense and hassle of sourcing classic car parts. This family business was launched to the public earlier this year and already boasts thousands of subscribers. It has close to 100,000 parts on the system with thousands more being loaded up each week.

It was set up four years ago by Mick Lunn and daughters, Layla and Ruby, and the inspiration for the platform came from a personal need to solve the everyday frustrations of sourcing the right car parts. Mick realised that there was a need for a marketplace dedicated solely to buying and selling car parts which was really user friendly, with a simple, inexpensive, transparent pricing structure, "Because buying and selling car parts shouldn’t be hard."

ifndautoparts' aim is to streamline the way people buy and sell parts through an innovative, specialised online marketplace. Users can easily buy and sell a wide range of automotive parts - new and used - with just a few clicks, from other users on the platform and this has obviously found favour in the eyes of the Royal Automobile Club Historic Motoring Awards’ panel of expert judges.  

“The Club has been recognising achievement for over 125 years, and these Awards continue that proud tradition by celebrating the hidden talents within the historic vehicle scene,” said Jeremy Vaughan, Head of Motoring for the Royal Automobile Club. “There’s so much inspiring work taking place, and we’re here to celebrate — and reward — the most inspirational people.”

“We are both surprised and delighted that ifndautoparts has been recognised by such a respected organisation so soon after our launch,” enthuses ifndautoparts MD, Mick Lunn. “The competition is very worthy, and whether we end up as the eventual winners or not, it is very gratifying that other people share our vision and think it is worth putting into the spotlight. It helps reaffirm our belief that we are all part of one like-minded community and that gives us tremendous encouragement to make sure we achieve ifndautoparts’ aim of keeping as many historic vehicles as possible on the road.”