John has spent some time clean the door glass ready for refit. He has made up the bolts and fitted the window channels.
We have been working on so many competition cars this week so rather than talking about each one individually I thought I’d give you a snapshot on each and every one. We have cars in the paint shop that are almost at the start of our journey with us through to cars on their final […]
Work on the Ford Thunderbird is on the agenda for the Jon and John today. They removed the wheels and measured up the brakes. The rear lights have also been polished and refitted. The boot area has been hoovered out and the battery removed. The boot trims have now been refitted. We’ve refitted a new […]
Jon has been continuing the work on my 500 SL this weekend, reassembling the rear axle. New mounts have been fitted to the differential and new mounts to the sub frame. He’s fitted new bearings to the hubs and support shaft before greasing up and fitting to the arms. New bushes have been wound into […]
One of our longest running storage cars and from the get-go, one of our most reliable is somewhat puzzling us. Our DB7 has decided to stop running. We put it down to old fuel so we got to work on a resolution but that was not it. If your car is in long term storage […]
Finding replacement seat belts for my Defender 90 is trickier than I first thought. Of course, I want and I need them to be legally safe to be fitted in the rear of the car but I didn’t realise just how many options are on the market and how wrong you can be. So I’ve […]
After replacing the faulty part on the air conditioning system and re-gassing the system, the compressor was not kicking in. The power was checked and the relay was found not to be activating. We then by-passed the relay which resulted in the air conditioning kicking in to life. On investigation, the terminals in the air […]
Over the past few days our website has gone through some major updates. It may look pretty similar but the cogs and wheels that make it all work have had a service. We hope this makes the website run smoothly and hopefully much faster. It has, however, meant our workshop updates are a week behind […]
Final stages of the welding ready to go into final prep and paint of welded areas. We are not painting the car as it is important to keep the patina. Paint is now complete and returned to the workshop to upgrade dash to MkII design and finish the service.
The heater control would not go to hot and the dash had been replaced with an incorrect wood fascia. We have now removed the centre console and the heater control panel, reshaped the heater cable, replaced the fascia and replaced the broken parts with the correct ones and then replaced the heater fan resister as […]
Some weeks at Bridge Classic Cars we have a workshop full of customer’s car, other weeks we have a workshop full of our own competition cars. No two weeks are the same and heading into the final week of 2024 we were busy as always working on both. If you watched our recent Torque Show […]
Our recent competition winner Phil has opted for delivery of his Porsche 911 rather than the cash alternative which we are thrilled about. As the car only had 5 months MOT remaining it will arrive to Phil with a nice clean bill of health having just passed a new MOT successfully, with no advisories. We’ve […]
Nigel and Richard over at Coltec Engineering are currently working their magic on our Maserati BiTurbo engine. We are very much looking forward to the engine returning to our workshop for it to be fitted up. An exciting competition for 2025, our very rare and very desirable Maserati BiTurbo. I caught up with Nick Fiore, […]
Removing the paint, exposing the corrosion and starting to rectify the issues we face on our 1977 Triumph 2500TC. As a part of the projects, the customer would like to upgrade his dashboard to the newer MkII version. We have been able to source the correct dashboard but modifications will be required as the car […]
Well, fun and games were had today getting the final body rusty bits repaired. Pete started the day by doing some final grinding on the rear quarter and getting that ready for primer, once that was done he moved on to the other rusty areas along the driver’s sill. The trailing edge of the drivers […]
2000 Peugeot 306 Cabriolet It’s been a while since my 306 Cabriolet has had a nice fresh service so today Steve carried out a cambelt, and at the same time, a water pump change. 1987 Maserati BiTurbo Meanwhile, Chris was busy tidying the engine parts, finishing them in VHT wrinkle plus paint before uncovering the […]
Our beautifully unique Ford Thunderbird had had a little knock on the front and rear bumper at some stage of it’s life so Mauro has carried out a lovely repair to it to make it look good again. The front bumper has been removed as well as the rear bumper, we’ve smoothed out the dinks […]
Chris has been busy preparing the Land Cruiser panels with epoxy panels ready for filler work to commence. All the filler work has now completed on the car. Chris has now stripped the parts to bare metal before priming the whole area.
Time for us to take a closer look at our Daimler 250 V8. First up, we need to carry out out a full and thorough appraisal. The spare tyre needs inflating so we’ve done that as well as all 4 fitted tyres. The coolant has been topped up, we’ve tightened the battery terminals, slacken offside […]
Steve has carried out an appraisal on our Mercedes Pagoda to report back findings to the customer. Meanwhile John is attending to a leak on the gearbox. It seems to be coming from the gasket so the sump pan was removed, filter cleaned and a new gasket fitted.
Today, Pete has fitted the DAB antenna, hands free microphone and made adaptions to the way the stereo cage fits in the dash using some hand made rubber spacers. He has made a minor repair and location change to the sun visor clamp as this was sitting wonky and looks to have done so from […]
John and Jon have been at it again. They have successfully built up and fitted the new rear vents. They have also managed to fit and align the door mouldings. John has then got to work on rebuilding the front head lights and stripping down the front bumper. The headlight wiper motor linkage was seized […]
We have so much going on at Bridge Classic Cars Competitions right now; cars coming in, cars going out, cars finding new homes, cash alternatives flying about all over the placed. It’s difficult to keep up! So I thought I’d do a weekly round up of all competition car updates for you. I’m really sorry […]
1998 Rover 200 Coming in to Bridge Classic Cars HQ with a heater issue, John is already on with finding the fault and hopefully being able to rectify it so it’ll be back to it’s owner in no time. 1998 Rover Mini Cooper Meanwhile, a new addition to the The Classic Lounge, home to Bridge […]
Run up and listen for the exhaust blow. Jon has then blocked the tailpipe and traced the blow to the front joint. We’ve slackened the clamps and sealed back up before re securing the clamps and leaving to set. We carried out the same exercise on another blow on the rear silencer joint.
A relatively successful trip was had heading up to The Pavilion in Buxton for the H&H Classic Auction last week. We came away with 4 cars ourselves and a 5th made it’s way down on our car transporter for some work required by our team in the workshop. The car’s have now arrived with us […]
It’s a busy Mini today in the workshops as we prepare for our Cooper S to be delivered to Geoff later in the week. We’ve carried out the pre delivery inspection and noticed a fuel leak from carb float bowl. We’ve taken the car outside to warm her up. Checked for previous fuel leak and […]
We continue to polish intake pipes. We finish all pipes and place in the boot ready. The radiator has been removed for painting and all parts have been taken to the bodyshop for painting in satin black. We’ve fitted new front and rear number plates. Removed all masking from engine bay and tidied the area. […]
At 4pm tomorrow, Tuesday 3rd December 2024, we reveal the winner of one of the most exciting new EV’s on the market right now, the MG Cyberster. We have one of the very first to arrive in the UK and you could be winning it on Tuesday for just £15. But before all that…we can’t […]
Lydia has completed our Dino dash ready for install. I think you’ll agree, it looks sensational.