Thanks to James Bell of Giraviufocus for sharing some images of our Maserati Merak that he spotted recently at Bicester Heritage.
Matthew Pits Photography has sent us these stunning photos of our Maserati Merak Restoration. The owner recently displayed this lovely Maserati at Bicester Heritage. We love to see our vehicles out being enjoyed. Thanks for sharing these images, Matthew. Click here to view our Maserati Merak restoration blog.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We had an amazing day at Sandown Park Race Course for Barons British Heritage, Classic and Sports Cars auction. In the auctioneer’s words the ‘star of the show’ was our stunning 1975 Maserati Merak, generating a huge amount of attention on the day with many admirers speaking to us personally to learn about the journey we took […]
With the internal build still in progress at the new Bridge Classic Cars HQ and the sun beaming down it was a great opportunity to bring out some of our old friends to enjoy the fresh Woodbridge air. Our 1949 MGYT and 1975 Maserati Merak.
The sun is shining as we load our Maserati up for a trip to London. Let’s just hope the weather stays bright as we take to the streets of London for a test drive.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A huge thank you to Mike at Shine Supply UK for producing this fantastic video from our 1975 Maserati Merak photoshoot at Butley Priory. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7335OFgzhjY”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]And then we have a full walk round of the car on location.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zubwYW_Ek0″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]First stop of the day was to collect the car from Mike down at Shine Supply UK. It has been with him for a couple of days now getting polished and detailed in preparation for the final photo-shoot.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”17790,17791,17792,17793,17794,17795,17796,17797,17798″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The location for one of our most eagerly anticipated shoots is the beautiful setting of Butley Priory near […]
Different but very impressive. We recently spoke to Steve. Steve lives in Manchester and he contacted us after reading up on our Maserati Merak project online. Steve owns an early golf and it just so happens that it is fitted with Maserati Merak wheels so he sent through some pictures for us to see. I […]
The very first Bridge Classic Cars enamel badge. Fresh off the production line, here is the very first Bridge Classic Cars enamel badge, produced by our friends at Pamela David Enamels. This will be fitted to our 1975 Maserati Merak as the final stage of completion of this fantastic project. When she leaves our workshops […]
As a final touch on our Maserati Merak project we have asked our good friends at Pamela David Enamels to produce a 1-off Bridge Classic Cars badge to be fitted to the car. Here we have the initial designs sent back with the black lines being chrome and the white internals being black.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are hopefully looking, right now, at the final trip for our 1975 Maserati Merak in it’s restoration journey. Our task at Bridge Classic Cars is now complete so it just needs a few tweaks and the once over from the Italian specialists at Grimaldi Engineering. Roberto Grimaldi and his team come from Italian and Swiss […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our Maserati Merak is now back in our Ipswich workshops after one final visit to the paint shop and she is looking absolutely outstanding. Just a couple of small areas to work on and the concours restoration will be complete. A couple of removable panels need to be realigned once again and we are waiting […]
Having exhausted all avenues in sourcing some new/good used headlight hydraulic cylinders to operate the raising mechanism of the headlights, we had no other choice than to re-manufacture some brand new components. Certainly not as easy as it sounds; lots of phone calls later to lots of hydraulic specialists and with no one wanting to […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s the end of another day at Bridge Classic Cars and the Maserati Merak is parked up, ready and waiting for the final trip to the paint shop. In the diary for the beginning of next week. Once we have completed the final few touches she’ll be ready for one of our ‘now famous’ photo-shoots…after […]
We reported earlier in the project that our original horn push came with the car damaged. Because of the rarity of almost everything on the Merak, we have commissioned Pamela David Enamels to design and re-manufacture a new one for us. Today, we received delivery of the new horn push… New Old
…well not strictly true! As you can see from our recent posts, our 1975 Maserati Merak has been somewhat missing the feel of the road for quite a while now. Due to a visit at the weekend, the workshops are being moved and that means the Maserati has been taken outside for a couple of […]
The brand new green carpets are now being fitted to our Maserati Merak.
What better combination than Indi Verde green against the stunning red leather. It is not so much noticeable on the seats but the entire interior set up has been stitched in green to match the car colour. It is more noticeable on the rear cover. Ordinarily the rear column on the Merak’s are covered in […]
A great example of when having the right tools operated by the right people can overcome anything… Here we have one of the L bracket covers from our 1975 Maserati Merak front seats. Unless you can find a Merak that is being broken (which we only know of one currently) these brackets are no longer […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After months of hard-graft rebuilding the engine, Don Warman was back with us today to run up the 1976 Maserati Merak engine for the first time. This is the first time since it has been fitted in the recently restored car so it was a big day for all involved. A small issue with a […]
Images of the underneath of our 1976 Maserati Merak. Dave and John are currently designing and producing the bespoke polished flooring that will be fitted later in the week.
Just a few weeks away from completion of our 1976 Maserati Merak. It’s been a long and challenging build but we are now very close to reaching the end. This week John has fitted the water tank and hoses. He then filled the system ready for the engine test run next week. The air filters […]
Progress has been further made on our 1976 Maserati Merak engine bay. The plumbing in of the brakes is now complete, the water pipes and vacuum pipes have also been connected up. We’ve replaced all of the pipes on the return system for the brakes. The fuel hoses have been fitted. John has also successfully […]
I couldn’t resist posting a few pictures of our ‘almost’ complete Maserati Merak door cards. I’m sure there’s not many cars on the road today with red leather stitched in green but then again, there’s not many cars on the road today with both a Maserati and a Merak badge.
A task that would be made a whole lot harder if the interior was already installed. Here we are applying rivets to the outer shell of the fuel tank compartments. This is a view from behind the seats prior to the fuel tank insulation and tanks themselves being fitted later this week. A view from […]
Assuming entire system to be dry but connected and engine ready to run, add fresh LHM fluid to the reservoir. Also, prime the LHM pump by pouring LHM down the return pipe or filling prior to installation. Start the engine and allo fluid to circulate around the system for 10 to 20 seconds. Keep the […]
Our next attempt on the 1976 Maserati Merak wheels have been a success. Having stripped them all back we have managed to further improve the magnesium finish to the wheels before applying a new coat of light gloss wheel paint. It was a lot of effort and intricate detailing but the results on this attempt […]
More images from the paint shop as we continue to tackle the magnesium wheel refurbishment.
In a previous post back in December we explained how we need to further perfect the Merak wheels. Magnesium wheels are somewhat of a challenge to work and unfortunately the previous restoration did not bring them back up to the standard we wanted to we have stripped them back to carry out the task once […]
As I had nipped over to our trim shop to drop off some bits I couldn’t help but take a couple of pictures of the Maserati Merak interior. Kim mentioned that there were a couple of areas she wanted to look at but all in all, they are all taking shape and looking fantastic. Just […]