Range Rover CSK – in for recommission
July 28, 2021
Our 1990 Range Rover CSK is in for storage at The Hangar with the intention of a possible full recommission. It’s also going to get
July 28, 2021
2021 Bridge Classic Cars Show
July 28, 2021
What a day! It was so lovely to welcome you back to our workshops for the 2021 Bridge Classic Cars show. After having to cancel
Meet head of security, Rosie
July 28, 2021
Without a belly-rub or a dog treat, nobody makes it past ✋ Kath, one of our talented Interior Trim Specialists has made Rosie her very
First Visit For Spud985
July 28, 2021
Familiar face appeared on the First. Coffee Shop + Lifestyle social feed, @ashleyharvey985 (formerly Spud985) went for a coffee in his 1973 Triumph TR6.
Classic Car Display at Woodbridge Methodist Church
July 28, 2021
East Anglian Practical Classics are helping Woodbridge Methodist Church celebrate its 150th anniversary. This is particularly apt as, in the same year that the was
A visit from a gold Mercedes!
July 28, 2021
We had the pleasure of looking at this 1981 gold Mercedes-Benz 230 CE yesterday. It came to us for an insurance assessment for vehicle valuation.
Flutes galore on the Aston Martin!
July 28, 2021
Kath has been continuing her interior work on the 1955 Aston Martin DB 2 4 Mark I’s seats. This time she has moved onto the
Range Rover CSK – in for recommission
July 28, 2021
Our 1990 Range Rover CSK is in for storage at The Hangar with the intention of a possible full recommission.
It’s also going to get a thorough clean, which you can see is much needed from the photos. There’s also a video of Craig doing a walk-around, for your viewing pleasure.
2021 Bridge Classic Cars Show
July 28, 2021
What a day! It was so lovely to welcome you back to our workshops for the 2021 Bridge Classic Cars show. After having to cancel both our 2020 Summer show and 2021 January show, we were well in need of a good catch up. The day started at our Bentwateras Hangar, before a convoy of roughly 150 cars made the journey through Woodbridge to our Woskhops in Pettistree.
Thank you to Matt Woods Photography for the imagery below.
Meet head of security, Rosie
July 28, 2021
Without a belly-rub or a dog treat, nobody makes it past ✋
Kath, one of our talented Interior Trim Specialists has made Rosie her very own Bridge neckerchief.
First Visit For Spud985
July 28, 2021
Familiar face appeared on the First. Coffee Shop + Lifestyle social feed, @ashleyharvey985 (formerly Spud985) went for a coffee in his 1973 Triumph TR6.
Classic Car Display at Woodbridge Methodist Church
July 28, 2021
East Anglian Practical Classics are helping Woodbridge Methodist Church celebrate its 150th anniversary. This is particularly apt as, in the same year that the was founded, Dr John Wesley Carhart, an American Methodist Minister, began constructing a steam-powered cart that laid the foundations of early mechanised personal transport. His machine, named ‘The Spark’, was so successful it earned its inventor the title ‘Father of the Automobile’.
In recognition of this ‘double event’, East Anglian Practical Classics will be displaying a selection of heritage vehicles that would have common in 1971 at the Church, marking 100 years since the beginnings of both the Woodbridge Methodist Church in 1871 and the car as we know it today.
This unique display will take place on Bank Holiday Monday, 30th August, on the forecourt of the church in St John’s Street, Woodbridge.
On display, we hope to include two extremely rare cars, a 1966 Gordon Keeble (no. 94 of the 99 made) and a 1950’s Paramount, one of only 72 examples originally made, of which less that half a dozen still exist.
There will also be a Toyota Carin, which was a brand new in 1971, a 1950’s Vauxhall Cresta, to show off the time periods fashion for fins, and, from the 1930’s, there is a venerable Austin Seven Ruby, which were still being used daily in 1971.
A visit from a gold Mercedes!
July 28, 2021
We had the pleasure of looking at this 1981 gold Mercedes-Benz 230 CE yesterday. It came to us for an insurance assessment for vehicle valuation. If you’re in need of this service, please do get in contact with us and we’d be happy to help!
Flutes galore on the Aston Martin!
July 28, 2021
Kath has been continuing her interior work on the 1955 Aston Martin DB 2 4 Mark I’s seats. This time she has moved onto the front squabs.
She started by marking notches and important places to remember when sewing, with a pen on the original covers, before taking them apart carefully. She didn’t unpick the flutes, but instead, measured them to work out how to create the new flutes on the new leather. Once calculated, Kath measured and marked out flute lines on the back of the new leather and a piece of scrim foam, cut to size. This acts as a backing and will create the same effect as the original, whereas they had used calico as a backing and stuffed the flutes with lengths of foam instead.
Once the flutes were all sewn, Kath used the original fluted face as a pattern to mark the edges. Pieces of leather cut to shape were sewn onto the sides of the fluted face. The sidebands were then cut out and piped in the dark grey leather around the curved edge. These sidebands were sewn onto the plain leather sides that were just attached.
