It’s not everyday that the plumber turns up wearing top hat and tails in the company van – but then it’s not every day a plumber is summoned to Buckingham Palace by the Queen. The occasion was last month when Charlie Mullins, founder of London-based Pimlico Plumbers, was awarded an OBE for services to plumbing, recognising […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]JAGUAR XJS CONVERTIBLE Automatic 5.3 V12 63000 miles with FJSH Solent Blue with Magnolia Leather. Kept and loved by one fastidious owner for the last 23 years. Stored in a heated garage and maintained regardless of cost covering a mere 500 plus miles a year between MOT’s. Apparently as every XJS that has ever been […]
1954 – Morris Minor
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Parade will start from Ricoh Arena in Coventry on Sunday June 14 and also include around 1,000 Jaguars. Thousands of classic cars will parade through Coventry in an ambitious bid to set two new world records at the same time. Coventry Transport Museum has teamed up with classic car insurance brokers Footman James and the Ricoh Arena […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Full Concours Restoration”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The full restoration was carried out in our Ipswich workshops and there are hundreds of photographs detailing this concours rebuild at all stages. As you will see by the photographs, the car has been totally dismantled and has been subject to a full concours nut and bolt restoration. The box chassis is prone […]
Our 1973 Aston martin AMV8 featured in Classic Car Weekly in January 2013. ‘Fancy an Aston Martin but don’t have much dosh? Well, if you’re handy with the spanners, ACA’s barn-stored V8 automatic project could be just the thing to keep you occupied this year. V8’s aren’t the cheap DB alternatives they once were, but their olde-worlde […]
Our 1924 Riley 11/40 Sports Tourer and 1973 Aston martin AMV8 featured in Car and Classic in January 2013. 1924 Riley 11/40 Sports Tourer ‘…there’s a marvellous 1924 Riley 11/40 sports tourer with fascinating history, exported new to Australia, it was discovered in the early eighties in a semi-derelict having been rebodied as a farm […]