Image credits.

• “Porsche 911 - Classic Car Boot Fair - QE Park” — Paul David SmithOriginal on Flickr · Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 · Resized and converted to WebP; composition otherwise unchanged.
• “Land Rover Defender Pick Up” — crash71100Original on Flickr · CC0 1.0 · Resized and converted to WebP; composition otherwise unchanged.
• “Citroen DS 21” — crash71100Original on Flickr · CC0 1.0 · Resized and converted to WebP; composition otherwise unchanged.
• “Porsche 911 991” — Calreyn88Original on Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Used on the Porsche 911 Type 991 example page; the front license plate is pixelated, the page images are resized and converted to WebP, and the share image is a 1200×630 centre-cropped JPEG; the adaptation is licensed under the same licence.
• “Land Rover Defender 110 L316 Station Wagon Coniston Green” — Ethan LlamasOriginal on Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Used on the Defender 110 L316 example page; the page images are resized and converted to WebP and the share image is a 1200×630 centre-cropped JPEG; the adaptation is licensed under the same licence.
• “Citroën DS 21 Prestige-Pallas (1966)” — Txemari (Navarra)Original on Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Used on the Citroën DS 21 example page; the rear license plate is pixelated, the page images are resized and converted to WebP, and the share image is a 1200×630 centre-cropped JPEG; the adaptation is licensed under the same licence.
• Homepage artwork — AI-generated illustrationsFive scenes supplied in the September 2026 design handoff (the sunset road hero in desktop and mobile crops, the coastal road band, the photo-tips illustration and the paper-grid texture) plus the pencil-style coupe drawing, generated with ChatGPT for this project; not photographs of real roads or vehicles. The illustrated coupe resembles a classic sports coupe; it is not an official or manufacturer image and is not evidence identifying any vehicle. Converted to WebP at the recorded widths; the drawing keeps its transparency and is labelled an illustrative drawing on the page.
• Guides hub hero — AI-generated illustrationGenerated with Gemini for this project; not a photograph of a real road or vehicle. Resized and converted to WebP at two widths; composition otherwise unchanged.
• Guide article heroes — AI-generated illustrationsFive scenes (identity check, records, workshop, car interior, roadside viewing) generated with Gemini for this project; not photographs of real vehicles, records, inspectors or inspections. Resized and converted to WebP at two widths; each is labelled an AI-generated illustration beside the image.
• Identification guide figures — AI-generated illustrationsSix explanatory figures (the reading-order clue map, body-shape profiles, the eight-style lineup, the identification pipeline, a facelift pair and badge-zone views) generated with ChatGPT (OpenAI) for this project; not photographs of real vehicles and not a picture of the production system. Converted to WebP at two widths; each is labelled an AI-generated illustration beside the image.
• Further guide figures — AI-generated illustrationsSeven explanatory figures across the remaining guides (the scam-stage sequence, the price-channel range diagram, the witness-description callouts, the taillight crops, the classic-car data plate, the invented plate formats and the camouflaged prototype) generated with ChatGPT (OpenAI) for this project; not photographs of real vehicles, records or registrations. Converted to WebP at two widths; each is labelled an AI-generated illustration beside the image.
• Badge-layer photographs — Wikimedia CommonsThree licence-checked photographs in the badge guide’s first figure: “Volkswagen Emblem on the Front Grill of VW Polo” by Atharv Chandel, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, and “2018 Ford Focus ST-Line Badge” and “2020 Peugeot 508 GT Hybrid Badge” by Vauxford, each under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Each was cropped and resized; the adaptations are licensed under the same licences.

Typeface

Guide pages are set in DM Sans, designed by Colophon Foundry for Google Fonts and self-hosted here under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Design references

The mockup images supplied for development are stored as ignored local reference files. They are not included in the production site.