We continue to follow the progress and incredible praise our good friends at CalmIndianCow are receiving on a daily basis. Recently @jendaddyg shared a post on Instagram having enjoyed lunch in London. If you’re in or around London check out the CalmIndianCow for yourself and let us know your thoughts. We first saw the car […]
Always lovely to see some of our previous workshop cars out and about enjoying the UK roads. Here we have TheManWithTheGoldenRoller celebrating the anniversary of his ownership. If you are a fan of Instagram Michael he is certainly well worth a follow. He and his beautiful Rolls Royce Shadow 1 visit some of the UK’s […]
Our dear friends at Calm Indian Cow have been in Cornwall recently! They were catering a wedding down in the West Country so of course, they took their gorgeous blue truck with them. Some of you may remember a while back when we helped to build this amazing 1971 Bedford J Type into the mobile […]
Our Bedford J-Type truck restoration is being put to good use. Owner of Calm Indian Cow, a traditional Indian takeaway restaurant, Mahesh tasked us with restoring his 1971 Bedford Truck, fully loaded and ready for food preparation and service. Based in Shoreditch, Mahesh is cooking up a storm, serving delicious Indian cuisine from the converted […]
We’ve been sent these lovely images of the food Calm Indian Cow is producing from our restored Bedford J Type truck. They look absolutely delicious, if you’re ever in Shoreditch looking for a bite to eat, it looks well worth a visit.
Our Bedford food truck has unfortunately been hit on the front left wheel arch. Other than some bad luck with the damage, the takeaway truck has been very successful. If you ever spot the bright turquoise Bedford J-Type, we’d throughly recommend stopping off for some authentic Indian cuisine.
Mauro has traveled into London to finish off the last few pieces of our Bedford J Type restoration. He’s fitted the final few interior parts and installed the interior carpet. Nicely done, Mauro!
Our Bedford J Type Indian Takeaway restaurant truck is now complete. Its safely home in Hackney, London where it will begin it’s new life as a Indian Takeaway van.
Dave has continued work getting out Bedford J Type truck roadworthy. He’s fitted brand new front quarter rubber seals. Pete is also working on the Bedford, ensuring the vehicle is roadworthy before it makes the journey down to London.
Work continues on our Bedford J-Type. We’ve had to extend the fuel tank pipe to meet the new, wider body shell. We’ve also fabricated brakets for the spare wheel to sit underneath the truck. New exhaust hangar mounts have also been fabricated and installed. Tom has also restored the door stands, preparing, priming and then […]
Our restoration project Bedford J-Type truck is back in the Bridge Classic Cars Workshop. It will be inspected by Pete, before addressing any issues the vehicle may have. Then this lovely 70s Truck will be ready to take to the road.
Since we completed our restoration work on this 1971 Bedford J Type Truck it has been fully fitted with kitchen appliances, ready to begin it’s new life as a mobile Indian restaurant. We will see the car coming back to us at Bridge Classic Cars for final inspections before she’s out on the open road […]
We have just completed the interior refit on our 1971 Bedford J Series. The bright yellow and green has now been removed and replaced with brown vinyl. Just in time to see her move on to the guys and girls at Tudor Catering Trailers to have the new catering trailer manufactured. Our journey at Bridge Classic Cars […]
When extending the chassis of any vehicle it is not just the chassis itself you need to consider. The exhaust system of our 1971 Bedford J Series has also had to be lengthened to meet with the extension of the rear measurements. The braking system has been stripped back and completely overhauled to ensure its […]
The extension of our 1971 Bedford chassis starts today. The metalwork has been fabricated and laid into position. We are looking to re-use the tow bar on the extension piece so extra strengthening bars are being made up to help counter balance the weight. A further strengthening bar is being fabricated as we speak which […]
With the Bedford exterior colour changing from green to blue, the bright green interior had to go! We opted for a brown vinyl covering to the seats for this one but rather than the previous flat texture-less seats we have added additional stitching to freshen up and improve the overall design.
Huge thank you, as always, to the masters of brake refurbishment and our good friends at Past Parts. They have done an incredible job of stripping and rebuilding the giant servo and brake master cylinders of our 1971 Bedford J Truck. Now to fit them back up as part of the recommissioning process.
The green piped in yellow will soon be disappearing from the interior of our 1971 Bedford, to be replaced with a classier looking brown vinyl. Vinyl gives the same overall appearance of leather but at a fraction of the cost this can often be the preferred option.
We took a trip up the A14 to Bury St Edmunds today to see our friends at Past Parts as we look to see about getting our 1971 Bedford’s Master Cylinder, Servo and Brake Cylinders overhauled. As we expected, it doesn’t seem to be a problem for the guys down at Past Parts, it’s what they […]
We have successfully removed the bed or buck from our 1971 Bedford truck. We are looking to extend the chassis to the legal limit to gain any much needed floor space in the new kitchen area that will be built above. The bed was removed relatively easily so we can now concentrate our efforts on […]
Today we received the initial plans for our 1971 Bedford J Series truck. Forget the colours for now, the truck will be extended at the rear to house a bespoke corrigated box that will house the kitchen. The truck will be used in the centre of London offering street food of an Indian cuisine. Mahesh, […]
A late finish tonight at Bridge HQ as we finally met the owner f this wonderful Bedford J Type. Since being here in Pettistree we have stirred up a huge amount of interest with the truck without actually undertaking any serious work. Having a good look over the truck we had a good idea of […]
New arrival to Bridge Classic Cars, our 1971 Bedford J Type Truck is in with us a future project. At this early stage we are unsure what the end result could be as the owner has many ideas for her new life. All we know is that she has spent the majority of her life […]