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Rob has relocated for now from the main workshops to the fabrication shop as he gets stuck in to the fabrication of the boot-lid. He has cut off the lower half of existing boot lid, remove the lower section due…
Originally Aston Martin welded the body shell to the chassis on the DB2/4 Drophead Coupe models. As Rob didn’t want to weld the two together after they are painted, he modified the brackets so they bolt to the chassis. This…
Rob has continued his work on our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe. He has carried on fabricating and welding on the rear bodyshell.
Our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 has been in the fabrication bay with Rob. He has bolted the body centre to the chassis as well as bolting on the rear wheel arches ready to start assembling the rear bodyshell. \rob then…
The workshop team here at the Bridge Classic Cars HQ have been continuing their work on getting the 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe closer to getting back on the road – this time quite literally! Rob, one of our…
Rob has been assembling the front suspension stub axle cross member along with the rear axle of our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe.
The 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe has been making some incredible progress in the last couple of weeks at the Pettistree workshops. As part of the restoration of this vintage Aston Martin, our technician Rob (who is the technician…
The 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe is in the fabrication shop at the Bridge Classic Cars with one of our master fabricators, Clinton. This time, he is repairing some considerable damage to offside sill of the rare vintage sports…
Our technician Rob has been methodically working his way through stripping the dashboard of our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe. Each individual piece that is removed was carefully inspected and evaluated before being bagged and labeled. The dash itself,…
Clinton has spent a lot of time recently working on our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead. He has been fabricating and repairing various structural parts of the body including the rear arches, wings, inner rear wings, various panels, and a…
The paintshop at Bridge Classic Cars are always busy! But recently, the booth was cleared for our painter Chris to get some parts for our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe project painted. These are running gear/suspension/chassis parts so Chris…
The paint and body team at the Bridge Classic Cars Suffolk HQ have been working on getting many of the suspension and chassis components for our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe. Finished in heavy duty black and silver, the…
The axle of our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe has been safely put into storage.
While out on the road, Tony picked up the differential for our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe. Now that it is back in the Bridge Classic Cars workshop, work can continue on this rare classic Aston.
The shock absorbers for both Aston Martin DB2/4 projects have been stripped down by the workshop team to be sent away to the masters at V&C Engineering for refurbishment for the projects. Both the Coupe and Drophead’s shock absorbers will…
Our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe has been in the fabrication bay with technician Christian as he has been repairing the bulkhead. He also braced the suspension mounts.
Christian has been repairing the bulkhead of our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe.
Tony has collected the body of our 1955 Astin Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe after its trip to the sandblasters. Now that it is back at the workshop, work will continue on the restoration of this rare classic.
The strip down of the axle and brakes from our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe has continued with Neil recently. While he was doing this, Tony collected the chassis from the sandblasters. Progress continues to be made so it…
Our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 has been getting a lot of attention lately. The stripped chassis has been sent off to the sandblasters. Before it went, Rob stripped the last remaining parts off the shell and chassis and removed the…
Rob has continued the strip down of our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe. As he was doing this, he found some highly questionable previous repairs. I think Rob said it best when he said: “The next time you look…
Our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 has begun its process of being stripped down by classic car technician Rob. It will be stripped down to a bare chassis, ready for its full restoration to get properly underway.
After cleaning up the seat of our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe, Lydia has spent some time making the foams fit. Unfortunately, the original foam has been lost or destroyed, meaning that it was necessary to make new ones….
…and they say men can’t multitask! Brian’s day has been spent on 1953 Aston Martin’s today. He started off sorting out all interior parts, labelling up, bagging up all of the small parts of the Aston martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe….
Brian has begun work on stripping down our 1955 Aston Martin Drophead Couple. He has removed the rear boot panels, the rear seat base and door panels. The cappings and door pockets have been taken out and the sill carpets….
Over the past few weeks, we’ve welcomed a very special addition to the workshop. The third in a line of Aston Martin DB2/4’s which are being completely restored by our classic car restoration technicians at our Suffolk HQ. This particular…
Brian has started work on our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe. He has been making the centre console lid. He did this by making the wood base, adding the wood edge sections, glueing this to the base section, making…
We are very excited to have our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 2.9-litre Drophead Coupe soon to be arriving at the Bridge Classic Cars workshop. This is a fully intact example with matching numbers that requires a comprehensive restoration. This particular…