The 1987 Mercedes 500SL has been moved from the preparation area at Bridge Classic Cars into the paint shop and then, into our in-house paint booth/oven. The paint and body team, along with the fabrication shop, have spent a lot of time getting the classic R107 ready for its date with the paint booth making […]
The 1970 Bristol 411, which is having a LHD conversion carried out, has had a brand new glovebox insert made by our incredible trim shop. Because of the change around in placement, the original insert conflicts with several brackets behind the glovebox itself. So, Brian has made one entirely from scratch built specifically for the […]
The bodyshell of the 1969 Morris Minor Convertible has been braced by the Bridge Classic Cars fabrication team in preparation of the repairs to begin. The team have braced and strengthened the bodyshell to ensure that not of the panels move out of alignment when they’re removed and to allow our fabricators to measure them […]
Last night, the 31st March 2022, the Bridge Classic Cars Competitions team welcomed our largest ever studio audience to find out who the lucky winners of the 1966 Jaguar Mk2 and 1970 Morris Minor 100 were. We had put out an open invitation to attend this live draw, as we have done in the past, […]
Last night, the 31st March 2022, the Bridge Classic Cars Competitions team welcomed our largest ever studio audience to find out who the lucky winners of the 1966 Jaguar Mk2 and 1970 Morris Minor 100 were. We had put out an open invitation to attend this live draw, as we have done in the past, […]
Our in-house trim shop at Bridge Classic Cars has finished the interior overhaul on the 1969 Sunbeam Rapier that arrived from South Africa a couple of months ago. We believe the interior to have been redone at some point in its life but there were a few details on the car which the team just […]
The left-hand drive conversion of the 1970 Bristol 411 is pressing ahead with the wiring harness and steering arms fitted back into the classic GT car. Paul has been working on getting all the pieces needed for the left-hand drive change. The first being the wiring harness has been fitted up into the dashboard of […]
The 1968 MGC Roadster in the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshop has had its new stereo and speakers installed into the interior of the classic convertible. Jon has been working on carefully running the wiring throughout the car from the rear pillars under the carpets and inside of the centre console to the new head […]
With the brand new carpet set fitted into the 1952 MG TD, we thought we would show you a comparison of the original carpets and the hand-made set made by the Bridge Classic Cars in-house trim shop. Each of these pieces was individually cut and finished by our team and fit into the car to […]
The paintwork of the 1965 Porsche 912 in the Bridge Classic Cars Paintshop is now complete! With our part of this fantastic restoration project complete, it’s time for the classic air-cooled Porsche to head off for final assembly. The car arrived at the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshop a few months ago, with a mismatch […]
The Team C Racing Mini has been completed by the Bridge Classic Cars in-house paint shop and is headed back home to Team C for final assembly. The Innocenti Mini arrived at our workshops a few weeks ago and has had many hours of work put into it in order to get it looking absolutely […]
The beautiful and elegant 1969 Bentley T1 has been in the Bridge Classic Cars in-house paint booth to have its first layers of paint applied. Chris and the paint team have worked hard to get the body of the classic Bentley into perfect shape before it headed into our paint booth. The Bentley is being […]
The latest round of DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal donations has been sent off from Bridge Classic Cars Competitions to directly help those affected by the recent invasion. As many know, the car was donated by previous winner Jar Joyce to help fundraise for the DEC’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. So far, we have raised over £27,000 […]
The interior of the 1952 MG TD had had several more hand-made pieces crafted by the Bridge Classic Cars in-house trim shop. Lydia and Brian have been working on completely replacing the carpet set in the classic MG with new material in the closest colour possible to the original. Each of the pieces for the […]
The amazing trim team at Bridge Classic Cars have been working on removing and renewing the interior of the 1952 MG TD. Brian and Lydia have carefully stripped back the old interior of the car to make way for the handmade replacement that will be installed. Lydia has been remaking the carpeted gearbox tunnel section […]
The modified heater box of the 1970 Bristol 411 has been in the Bridge Classic Cars in-house paint shop to be refinished. Mauro has worked on getting the heater box prepared and then thoroughly cleaned down before each individual piece was hung in the spray booth and sprayed in durable black ready to be reinstalled […]
The 1965 Porsche 912 has just had its first polishing session completed by the Bridge Classic Cars in-house paint team. With it in such great shape, we thought we would pull it outside and get some photos of just how good the Polo Red paintwork looks in the light. Alan, one of our paint technicians, […]
It’s always nice when friends of Bridge Classic Cars drop in at the restoration workshops at our Suffolk HQ. This time, it was our friend Hans who had his vintage Opel truck fully laden with all manner of pre-war goodies. Hans was on his way back to Holland to organise having all his recent acquisitions […]
Bridge Classic Cars Competitions was recently featured in the Motoring section of the national newspaper, The Daily Mail. The Daily Mail featured our beautiful 1966 Jaguar MkII and Ukraine Appeal 1989 TVR S2 to explain just what we do giving everyone the chance of owning their dream classic car for a few pounds.
Bridge Classic Cars is excited to announce that we can now supply beautifully hand-made stainless steel Jensen 541 front grille replacements. These are handmade to exactly match the openings and shape of the original grilles of the car. The replacement grilles offered by Bridge Classic Cars are uncut and come without any supports or bracketry, […]
The recent winner of the Bridge Classic Cars Competitions 1952 MG TD stopped by the Bridge Classic Cars workshop to check out his new car. Alan and his partner Danusia made the trip from just North of London to our Suffolk HQ to have a look a the classic MG which Alan had won on […]
The Bridge Classic Cars team took a trip over the weekend to head north and collect the 1959 Jensen 541R from its resting place and bring it back to our Suffolk HQ. It was an early start with our new van hitched up to our enclosed trailer to make the journey to the north of […]
The beautiful 1974 Alfa Romeo Series 2 Spider is the latest car from Bridge Classic Cars Competitions and it’s recently been out for its photoshoot after being given a clean bill of health from the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshop. The weather was perfect for capturing this iconic 1970s Italian convertible in its natural habitat, […]
This stunning 1974 MGB GT V8 has just arrived into the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshops at our Suffolk HQ. The car has come for various bits and pieces such as an oil change for both the engine and gearbox, a coolant flush and an MOT. But the team have also been asked to have […]
We’ve been sent in these amazing photos of our 1957 MGA Roadster as part of its previous life. The car took part in the Monte Challenge, a classic rally much in the spirit of the original Monte Carlo rally organised by the CRA but now part of the HERO calendar of classic car events. The […]
It’s not every day at Bridge Classic Cars that we get new things! But on Friday we got our brand new Van. It’s a 2022 Vauxhall Vivaro which is going to be used by our in-house transport team alongside our enclosed transport trailer for collecting and delivering the amazing projects and competition cars that we […]
Coming soon to the Bridge Classic Cars workshop at our Suffolk HQ is this beautiful 1999 Alfa Romeo Twin Spark Spider heading to us all the way from Europe! The car will be completely checked over and assessed by the in-house team here at Bridge Classic Cars and they will compile their reports on it. […]
Good friends of Bridge Classics Cars, Barons Auctions have recently announced a slight change in the way they will be conducting auctions in the future. Barons will be changing to a live online auction platform from their new facility near Southampton. The new system will allow bids to be placed either online or by phone, […]
The interior of the 1955 Jensen 541 has been in the Bridge Classic Cars in-house trim shop to have the front seats completed and begin the strip-down of the rear seat. The front seats for the Jensen 541 have been completed and finished in a beautiful bright shade of red. Lydia has meticulously been working […]
The 1987 Mercedes 500SL has had all its fabrication work completed by the fabrication team at Bridge Classic Cars and been moved into the paint preparation area. The car has had several crucial pieces of the car’s metalwork repaired by the fabrication shop. The paint and body team then worked on getting the car reprepared […]