The Bridge Classic Cars paint and body team have been working their magic in the restoration worshop to get the 1978 Mercedes 350SL looking better than new. Our paint and body manager Chris has been working on the car to get the panels flattened and polished to a mirror finish. This involves using 1000, 1500, […]
Two important pieces for two restoration projects have arrived back at the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshops. The propshafts for both the 1978 Mercedes 350SL and 1970 Aston Martin DBS have arrived back at our HQ ready for the time when team begin reassembly of the cars.
This week has been a busy week in the workshop, multiple cars each day coming in and out of the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshops. But, this afternoon I managed to go through our restoration departments to grab a few photos. For these, I wanted to give someone a look of what things look like […]
Although our film ‘Colour Theory’ came out last week, the Bridge Classic Cars paint and body have got some pictures for how the car got to looking just so good. Our paint and body manager Chris has been heading up the project of getting the 1978 Mercedes 350SL back to its former glory, with meticulous […]
The latest creation has emerged from the Bridge Classic Cars paint booth – the 1978 Mercedes 350SL. Our paint and bodyshop manager Chris has been handling this part of the cars comprehensive and total restoration in laying down layer after layer of deep red paint work and then shooting the lacquer to an almost mirror […]
We catch up with several of our restoration projects here at the Bridge Classic Cars HQ. Our ‘Workshop Walkaround’ videos take a deeper dive into a selection of rare and unique classic cars all being cared for by the Bridge Classic Cars restoration team.
As the Bridge Classic Cars paint and body shop have been busy working on the bodyshell of the 1978 Mercedes 350SL, the restoration team have begun to prepare for the cars arrival in the finishing workshop. This time, our technician Steve has been working on refubishing and rebuilding the gear lever. Steve has carefully stripped […]
The 1978 Mercedes 350SL has been in the paint abd body shop with our head of paint Chris. Chris has been working his magic on the 1978 Mercedes 350SL getting the rest of the bodyshell into primer before he begins to lay down colour on this ground up restoration. With meticulous and obsessibe preparation, Chris […]
The 1978 Mercedes 350SL is well on its way to getting into colour. Our paint and body manager Chris has been in charge of this project, getting the classic Mercedes convertible ready to go into the booth for final colour. The team have completed panel levelling and got the car sprayed with polyfan and the […]
The Bridge Classic Cars paint and body team have been working their magic perfecting the bodywork on the 1978 Mercedes 350SL. Our paint and body manager Chris has been working on getting the drivers door to fit up and sit properly on the body by making small but crucial adjustments to the support braces to […]
The Bridge Classic Cars team have been moving at quite the pace on the 1978 Mercedes 350SL restoration here at our Suffolk HQ. Ben and Steve have been busy building up the front suspension, all freshly refurbished and in place including brake calipers, pads and discs, while the’ve also been going through the wiring harness […]
The bodyshell of the 1978 Mercedes 350SL has made its way from the Bridge Classic Cars paint and body shop over to our finishing room for our restoration technicians to begin the process of getting the car to being a rolling chassis before it goes back into the paint shop for the final time. Steve, […]
The 1978 Mercedes 350SL is well on its way to getting back to a former glory, if not even better. The paint and body team have been working their magic on the classic Mercedes convertible over the past week or so. Chris, our paint manager, has seam sealed the entire underside and engine bay of […]
As the bodyshell of the 1978 Mercedes 350SL is being worked on in the body and paintshop at the Bridge Classic Cars HQ, our restoration technicians in the main workshop have been working on building up the freshly refurbished front and rear subframes of the car. Steve, with the help of our technician Ben, has […]
The paint and body team have taken the freshly restored and improved bodyshell of the 1978 Mercedes 350SL. In the paint and bodyshop here at the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshops has been moved into our in-house paint booth for the team to completely and totally clean down, then clean it again and then clean […]
Go behind the scenes of our restoration workshops here at the Bridge Classic Cars HQ, as we catch up with our classic car restoration technician Greg as he works his way through the metalwork needed to get this 1978 Mercedes R109 350SL back to better than new condition.
This time, both the Bridge Classic Cars fabrication team and our paint and body team are working side by side to make progress on the 1978 Mercedes 350SL. Whilst our paint and body technician Adam has been getting many of the panels prepped and primered, our restoration technician Greg has been getting rid of the […]
After coming back from being retreated, Greg has found a few hidden bits of rust in the door jams of the 1978 Mercedes 350SL currently undergoing a full restoration at the Bridge Classic Cars HQ in Suffolk. After noticing it, Greg has carefully cut back all of the effected areas and replaced it with a […]
Work is continuing on the 1978 Mercedes 350SL here at the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshops here in Suffolk. The bodyshell was taken away to be stripped once more before it heads over to our paint and body team to begin their work on getting the car looking like new. Whilst the bodyshell had been […]
Chris, our paintshop manager, applied epoxy primer to various parts of our 1978 Mercedes 350SL in preparation for panel levelling here at the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshops. He began fitting up the car to check the panel gaps and carry out the necessary adjustments, including the first fitting of the bumpers and some of […]
Tony has taken our 1978 Mercedes 350SL in red to the sandblasters to prepare the body for the next stage of restoration, after the fabrciation stage is over the team have decided that will be taken off for media blasting to remove any forms of rust which may have built up during its period in […]
Part of the restoration of any classic car is ensuring that the shut lines, body lines and panel gaps are beautifully even – a skillset which we pride our selves on here at the Bridge Classic Cars restoation HQ. With the extensive welding and bodywork happening in the fabrication shop by our technician Greg this […]
At the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshops, we’re no strangers to ground up restorations – but we’ll also handle just about any job on a classic car as we like to see these automotive pieces of history return to their former glory and be used and adored for years to come – just like this […]
Greg continues to carry out extensive welding and grinding on our 1978 Mercedes 350SL in the Bridge Classic Cars fabrication shop – ensuring the structure was properly addressed before progressing further. He also recorded the condition of the damaged rear bumper and went on to fit the required panels. At the same time, Anthony (our […]
Greg carried out welding work on our 1978 Mercedes 350 SL in the fabrication shop at the Bridge Classic Cars Suffolk HQ. He has hand-fabricated a U-channel for the boot area, then made an additional U-channel for the passenger side and welded it securely into place. Once the U-channel was fixed, he moved to the […]
The progress on the 1978 Mercedes 350SL is flying along throughout the various departments at the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshop deep in the heart of the Suffolk countryside. Whilst our workshop team are busy sorting through the cars various pieces of chrome trim work and cataloguing each individual piece, our fabricator Greg has been […]
Our restoration technician Greg has been busy at work on the bodywork of the 1978 Mercedes 350SL which is in the fabrication shop here at Bridge Classic Cars undergoing a full restoration. This time, Greg has been working on finalising some of the key inner panels which give the cars unibody construction its strength to […]
Greg continued work on our 1978 Mercedes 350SL by fitting the inner wheel wells and cutting off the outer sill in preparation for its replacement. He then fitted the new outer sill, ground down the surrounding areas.
Greg made further progress on our 1978 Mercedes 350SL by completing the welding work to the inner wing, which was then ground down and coated in primer. He continued by cutting out the driver’s side inner wing and also removed the rear quarter panel to advance the structural restoration.
Gregg carried out the fabrication and installation of the wing inners on our 1978 Mercedes 350SL. The inner wing was welded in place and the work brought to completion, ensuring a solid and properly aligned structure ready for the next stage of restoration.