Classic.com Data Parser & API

Classic.com is the leading collector-car search engine — used by 2M+ enthusiasts — aggregating listings and results from auctions, dealers and private sellers across the market, and Carapis extracts its full aggregated data, including cross-platform sold-price history, through one REST API. Rather than one marketplace, Classic.com is a meta-source that unifies the fragmented collector market into one comparable dataset.

What is Classic.com?

Classic.com is a US-based search engine and aggregator for the collector, exotic and specialty car market, with 2M+ users. It indexes live and sold listings from many auction houses, dealers and private sellers, and pairs them with model-level price history and market-trend analytics. Because it consolidates the whole collector market rather than a single venue, Classic.com is uniquely positioned as a cross-platform price-history source.

Market Position

Classic.com is the reference search engine for collector-car data, drawing 2M+ users and aggregating across auctions, dealers and private sales (Classic.com market report, Sep 2025). Online collector auctions now move 50K+ cars/yr (~$2.5B), surpassing live auctions — and Classic.com sits above that fragmented landscape, normalizing listings and results from dozens of venues into one model-indexed dataset. That makes a single Classic.com parser effectively a cross-market price-history feed for collector vehicles.

Data Fields Available

Carapis extracts a structured, cross-platform record from Classic.com:

• Vehicle identity — make, model, model year, VIN (where published)
• Pricing — asking price, sold price, and model-level price history (the standout cross-platform field)
• Provenance — source venue (which auction/dealer/private listing), seller type, factory options
• Market analytics — market-trend signals per model
• Listing context — location, photo gallery

The aggregated sold-price history and per-model market trends are what make Classic.com uniquely valuable: instead of one venue’s data, you get the collector market’s consolidated price record — delivered as structured fields. Because it indexes other sources, completeness depends on what each underlying venue publishes.

API Quick Start

import requests
 
resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings",
    params={"source": "classic-com", "limit": 20},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
)
for car in resp.json()["results"]:
    print(car["make"], car["model"], car["year"], car["price"])

const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings?source=classic-com&limit=20",
  { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.CARAPIS_API_KEY}` } },
);
const { results } = await res.json();

curl "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings?source=classic-com&limit=20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CARAPIS_API_KEY"

Get an API key at my.carapis.com  and see the full API reference. Pricing is on the pricing page.

Use Cases

• Pricing intelligence — cross-platform sold-price history and per-model trends power collector valuation for dealers and specialists.
• Market research — track the whole collector market in one feed instead of stitching venues together. See market research.
• Import / export — model-level price benchmarks help cross-border buyers value rare vehicles. See import & export.

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