Winner of our 1989 Austin Mini ‘Pocket Rocket’ Keith Aldous visited our hangar this week to personally collected the car. Ordinarily we delivery direct to your local but we wlecome any of our winners down to have a look around and meet the team! Here are a few photos from that day! If you’d like […]
Lydia has been sand blasting the internal bonnet and hinge assemblies for the Aston Martin DB2/4 in order to get rid of any substances such as old paint that have been left behind.
Clinton has been busy fabricating for the bonnet of the Aston Martin DB 2 / 4. He’s fabricated new hinge supports for the front, repaired various cracks with welding, fabricated a new part onto the wheel arch, straightened out the front because it was all bent in, and pulled a dent out of one of […]
Our 40 foot container has had a quick makeover with a fresh coat of paint, ready for this weekend’s Classic and Sports Car and Bike Show. Hopefully the weather will hold out for us but we look forward to seeing you all come rain or shine.
The day has come where we wave goodbye to our incredible Chevron B20-72-2. The car is now on it’s way to it’s new owner who has already made the necessary plans to have her restored and prepared for the track. The new owner is very well known in the motoring scene and this will be […]
Bridge Classic Cars technician Mauro, originally from Portugal told us that his grandfather owned a Piaggio Ape and had used it as his everyday car for many years. He recently decided that the car needed to be sold. We don’t know for what reason but we thought it would be a great idea to own […]
Arriving in with us this morning is our monstrous Mk1 Golf GTI. A very special car with an impressive restoration history too. In simple terms, here’s the story: Apx 20 valve turbo with 3 stage boost Emerald ECU 6 speed 02S gearbox Peloquin Limited Slip Diff 800kg corner weight 384nm torque Bhp/tonne 356 AVO GTX […]
Special thank you to Lotus Cars for sharing our beautiful Elise Sport 240 Final Edition competition to their equally impression 800,000+ audience. Norwich City Football Club’s Principal Partner, Lotus Cars, has generously donated a Lotus Elise Sport 240 Final Edition for a competition to support the Community Sports Foundation. Production of the iconic Lotus Elise is […]
Chris and Matt are continuing the work on shaping up the body of the Jaguar E-Type roadster in the paint shop. Once the shell was back from the sand blasting, it was re-assembled, making sure all the panels lined up. From that, Chris and Matt were able to assess what condition the shell was in. […]
Scott has finished the welding on the Jaguar E-Type 1.5, so he sealed and sprayed Schultz underseal on the underside of the car. He wrapped paper around the gearbox and exhaust to prevent any damage from the spray. He changed the engine oil and filter, greased up and lubricated all joints on the front end […]
James has been repairing the left-hand front wing on our 1951 yellow Riley. There were sections of corrosion, so he fabricated new sections where these were present. It was more efficient for James to replace large sections than lots of small sections. He’ll be doing exactly the same method for the right-hand front wing next.
Ady recently finished rebuilding the engine of our Jaguar Mk VII and is now working on fitting it back into the car.
Mauro has been refurbishing the front set up of the Bristol and applying new grease onto the front wheel bearings. The break disks got changed as well, and the sump gasket was leaking oil so he’s been fitting a new one. The rocker cover gaskets have also been replaced due to an oil leak.
Dave has given the 1960 Morris Minor a final once over. The fuel pump gaskets have been replaced. He removed the fuel tank sender unit to check it was in good working condition, which it was after cleaning. The fuel tank sender unit was re-installed with new gaskets. Dave also put in a new top […]
Our beautiful 1975 Triumph TR6 is in the workshops right now having some remedial works carried out. Whilst on the road Paul has taken some observational photographs to discuss with the current owner for possible areas to watch out for at a later date.
Paul has re-produced an air box bolt for our 1960 Jensen 541S air box. It is now complete and ready to fit.
Paul has now removed our Chevrolet 3600 clutch to replace with new.
6am this morning and a lovely collection of classics welcomed Craig to Ufford Park Woodbridge. Assuming the owner’s were enjoying an overnight stay and unless an amazing coincidence probably all knew each other. Not sure whether the classics belong to a club or just a group of friends out for a road trip but lovely […]
Question is; should a car cleaner have a dirty car, should a gardener’s garden need trimming, should a fuel tanker ever run out of fuel? Of course they should…life whizzes past so fast that sometimes we don’t stop to think of ourselves. Our Mercedes Vito is, without a doubt, the best van we’ve ever owned. […]
Having recently completed a full restoration elsewhere our beautiful 1975 Triumph TR6 has arrived in with us for a final check and recommission. The list includes: Wheel alignment and trackingLighting alignmentBrakes efficiency checksClutch operationEngine timing and runningFit new ignition lock and switchSuspension geometric checkGeneral safety checkMOTRefit speedo and rev counterRe-stick front number plate
The world’s best selling Mini magazine since 1991, MiniWorld features a fantastic article on the restoration works involved in our 1967 Austin Mini 850. Thanks for the feature, feel free to read the article below.
Scott has been fitting new parts into the silver Jaguar V12. It now has new lower door seals and chrome trims on the sills (the original ones were missing). Also to be replaced were the cooling fan and the thermostatic switch, because the original switch was faulty and was heating up too high of a […]
Lydia has been continuing with the prep work for the 1998 Honda Integra Type R. She’s been block sanding one of the doors to get rid of as many imperfections in the paint surface as possible. There was a “rippled” effect in it when you looked at different angles, so we’re wanting a much smoother […]
Our 1915 Model T Ford has been successfully recommissioned and ready to go home.
Lydia has been continuing her prep work on the 1998 white Honda Integra Type R. She unclipped one of the rubber seals on the underneath of the door she’d been sanding down and filling, before cleaning off old glue and dirt with panel wipe solution. The paint on the inside of the door then got […]
We call it the Jensen bible and in order to protect it Kath has made a bespoke leather book bag. Jensen Genome Richard Calver July 2019 Edition She started the process by drawing, measuring and working out the dimensions and design for the bag. Black leather was cut out to the required shapes and measurements […]
Brian has been continuing his work on the interior for the Continental Bentley. He began off by taking the original leather and foam off the door cappings, and then cleaned up the wood. New 3mm foam was cut to shape and glued into place. New leather was then cut out, using the original pieces as […]
Huge congratulations to Peter Atchison, winner of our 1976 Volkswagen T2 Westfalia Camper with ticket number 1473. Mauro delivered early this morning with the sun shining! Interesting article written by Debbi Kirkham for Forbes on the popularity of camping: “It’s easy to see how camping has developed such widespread appeal over the centuries – leaving […]
The electronic ignition was the issue with the Mustang not starting upon collection. John has worked his magic and now she’s all fired up! We still can’t go anywhere as we have no brakes…well we can go places, we just can’t stop!
The Jaguar E-Type series 1.5 has been getting new front carpets made by Kath, in the trim shop. The original ones were marked out with “notches”, which help when putting the new versions together, then taken apart and were used as patterns on a roll of new carpet. Leather strips were cut out for the […]