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Win Our Vanden Plas

Our 1981 Austin Vanden Plas is now live on the Bridge Classic Cars Competitions website. On September 17, 1974, the Vanden Plas 1500, based on the Austin Allegro, was released as the successor to the Princess 1300. It was equipped…

Driving Our 1971 MGB Roadster

Earlier today, Craig and Nick took our 1971 MGB Roadster out on the roads around the Bridge Classic Cars workshop. It’s safe to say…it was a very enjoyable drive. There are still a few hundred tickets left if you want…

The All-New MG HS SUV

MG has just released an exclusive preview of the all-new HS SUV. This is ahead of the car’s global debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Thursday, 11th July. Replacing the current model, which has been extremely successful for…

An E-Type Road Trip

We recently received an amazing update from one of our customers regarding our beautiful 1970 Jaguar E-Type Series 2. Not only is the car being used, it has been used for an incredible road trip. Travelling well over 1000 miles,…

An Old Friend On An Adventure

Back in January last year, Steve won our 1975 MGB GT V8 through Bridge Classic Cars Competitions. Since then, Steve has become a great friend to the team here. This past weekend Steve took his MGB (now called Velma) to…

10 To 80 per cent charged in 5 Minutes

Nyobolt, a Cambridge-based company, has introduced its electric vehicle (EV) prototype capable of ultra-fast charging. Collaborating with design and engineering firm CALLUM, Nyobolt is aiming to demonstrate its advanced battery technology in real-world conditions. This technology looks to solve the…

The Classic Car Lifestyle

Bridge Classic Cars is known for award-winning restorations and classic car competitions. However, over the last 20 years, we have become so much more. We have worked extremely hard to build a community of friends and like-minded enthusiasts who share…

Fixing our enclosed trailer

Our enclosed trailer sees quite a few miles every month! With our transport team always out and about across the country, we have a very strict inspection regime for it and occasionally repairs have to be done. This week, the…

Rare Barn Find Motorbike

At the upcoming H&H Classics motorcycle sale on July 3rd, being held at the National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull, there is a very interesting motorcycle for sale and it is one that has spent most of its life off the…

Progress on our 1956 Jensen 541R

Our workshop team have been steadily making progress on our 1956 Jensen 541 which is in the finishing workshop here at the Bridge Classic Cars workshop in Suffolk. Our technician, Paul, began with working on test fitting the rear window…

Closer and Closer – Getting the last few remaining jobs done on the 2022 Bridge C-Type

The workshop team are crossing off the last few remaining jobs left to do on our 2022 Bridge C-Type Replica with Jon and John working their way around the homage to the greatest era of sports car racing. Here’s what…

Our SL returns with a noise…

Firstly, we have road tested the vehicle to experience what the customer is experiencing.Found the noise to be coming from the nearside rear wheel so we have stripped out wheel hub and replace wheel bearing. Whilst the car is in…

Another Piece of the Puzzle – Exhausts for our 1975 Cobra Project Are Back

The exhaust for our 1975 Cobra project are back at the Bridge Classic Cars HQ after being sent off to a specialist for coating. With these now back, the team can keep pressing on with getting with very exciting project…

Our 1989 Porsche 928 S4 takes a special trip

Alongside our 1958 Austin Healey 100/6, our transport team were given the task of safely delivering our 1989 Porsche 928 S4 to a special location recently for filming with our marketing team. Tony, our transport driver, expertly navigated the narrow…

Time for some TLC – Our 1998 BMW E36 M3 Evo comes over to the workshop

This stunning 1998 BMW E36 M3 Evo has been in long term storage for quite some time now. Recently, our transport team took a trip to our secure, secret storage facility – The Hangar, to pick up this incredible 1990’s…

Back to its core – stripping our 1973 Ferrari 246 GTS

The 1973 Ferrari 246GTS ‘Dino’ has been in the Bridge Classic Cars workshops for a few weeks now with the restoration team getting started on revitalizing this iconic sports car. Most recently, the car has been in with our body…

Recommission work on our Daimler Conquest

Loads has been happening this week on our 1954 Daimler Conquest as we continue to work through the recommissioning process. Some key activities include; securing the ignition switch into the dash. Jon has remove the reserve tank cable and blanked…

Progress on our 1989 Daimler Double Six

Our technician Jon has been hard at work getting our 1989 Daimler Double Six back into fully working order. Here’s what he’s currently been doing ”Remove rear wheels. Cut rear suspension bolts and replace with new bolts fitted the other…

Washer issues on our 2010 Renault Wind Roadster

John has been working on getting to the bottom of why the washers on our 2010 Renault Wind have stopped working. To check the pump, John had to jack the car up and remove one of the wheels to get…

Charged Up – Replacing the regulator on our 1952 Austin A40

Our workshop manager has been working on our very special barn-find 1952 Austin A40 sports cabriolet. After it having its first test drive late last week, the team noticed that the charge light was not switch off while running. Looking…

More progress on our 2022 Bridge C-Type Replica

The workshop team at Bridge Classic Cars have been making progress on our 2022 Bridge C-Type Replica. Everyday the car gets closer and closer to completion and with that, the list of major jobs get smaller. Recently, our workshop manager…

Moving and Upgrades – Our 1958 Austin Healey 100/6

Our 1958 Austin Healey has been back into the Bridge Classic Cars worshops at our Suffolk HQ to have a couple of jobs finished off before it had a very special date. The team found that the original kill switch…

Repairing the seats on our 1952 Fiat 1900A.

Our trim shop have been giving the task of repairing the seats on our incredible 1952 Fiat 1900A. The trim shop at Bridge Classic Cars is one of our busiest departments, but our trimmer Lydia has worked her magic on…

Servicing and Checking Over our 1964 Jaguar Mk2 3.8

We recently welcomed a 1964 Jaguar Mk2 3.8 to the Bridge Classic Cars for our team to take a look at a few little issues and also to service the classic Jaguar before taking back to its owner. Here’s what…

Brake Work on the 1953 Aston Martin DB2/4

Our restoration team have been making amazing progress on our 1953 Aston Martin DB2/4 at our Pettistree workshops. Our technician Steve, who is the main technician on the project, has been getting the running gear and brake system back onto…

Off to a new home – Delivering our 1972 MGB Roadster to our lucky winner

Recently, Peter won our 1972 MGB Roadster through Bridge Classic Cars Competitions. But before the team took the trip down to deliver the car to him personally, the workshop checked it all over and then it was handed over to…

Returning Home – Our 1996 Jaguar XJS Heads Back to its Owner

The 1996 Jaguar XJS, which has been safely tucked up in storage for a few months, has made its way to our Pettistree workshops ahead of being transported back to its excited owner. The classic Jaguar GT was loaded up…

Workshop Changes – New ramps in place

There’s been some big changes recently at our Suffolk HQ with the installation of a new set of ramps. These ramps have been put in place in what used to be the home of Bridge Classic Cars Competitions, the Atelier,…

A Recent Visit – EADT video team at Bridge Classic Cars

We recently welcomed the video team from East Anglian Daily Times to our Suffolk HQ to show them around after our announcement of being finalist in two categories for this years Business Awards. Our marketing manager Rob was on hand…

Italian Made

While Lydia was working on our 1952 Fiat 1900 A, she removed the seat cover and exposed the foam underneath. Once she had, the original factory details that had been etched onto the foam were still visible. This is a…