The Bridge Classic Cars team have been working their way through a list of small jobs on the 2006 Lotus Elise Sports Racer – the main one being replacement rear lights. Our technician Jon has been in the classic lounge to test and fit the new rear lights to the mid-2000s sports car.
With our 1972 Ford Capri having been won last week, the car came out of the classic lounge and into the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshop at our HQ for our technicians to do the final checks and repairs before it heads off to its new home. Our restoration technician Jon, who prepares all of […]
The Bridge Classic Cars team have been looking into this recently arrived 1970 Mercedes 280SL ‘Pagoda’, The car has been brought into the restoration workshops at the Bridge Classic Cars Suffolk HQ for our technician Jon to go through the car thoroughly and meticulously in order to create a report for the cars owner.
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 […]
With all of the work being finished on our 1998 Citroen Saxo VTR, the Bridge Classic Cars transport team have loaded up the 1990s hot hatch into our enclosed trailer and taken it to our safe, secure and discreet storage facility.
Earlier this week, we welcomed this 1991 Jaguar XJS V12 for the Bridge Classic Cars restoration team to take a look at for its new owner. Once the classic Jaguar coupe was in the workshop under the keen and sharp eye of our technician Jon, he carried out a full and complete appraisal for the […]
The restoration workshop at the Bridge Classic Cars Suffolk HQ have been working on getting the 1998 TVR Chimaera 500 ready for a very lucky winner very soon. As part of all of our competition preparations, our technician Jon goes through each and every car with a fine tooth comb. Here’s what Jon has been […]
The 1955 Aston Martin DB2 Drophead Coupe, which is being fully restored from the ground up here at the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshops Suffolk HQ, has met another massive milestone in this amazing project. The freshly rebuilt straight-six and manual gearbox arrived back recently at our restoration workshop ready to go into the refurbished […]
Mauro, one of amazing restoration technician here at the Bridge Classic Cars HQ, has been working on getting the bottoms of the rear wings repaired on the 1973 Mercedes 250. With the bottom of the rear wings having corroded, Mauro has carefully cutaway the rust to expose healthy metal for the team to be able […]
CUPRA has made its one-millionth vehicle just seven years after the brand launched in 2018. The car that took them into the first million was the CUPRA Formentor e-HYBRID, finished in Magnetic Tech matt, built at the company’s Martorell HQ in Spain. The Formentor is a fitting car to take CUPRA past the one million […]
With the winner of our 1967 Jaguar E-Type deciding to take the cash alternative instead of the car, the team had to move to the alternate plan for the car. The car would be heading to auction, but regardless of its the auction block or a customers driveway our technician Jon had to get the […]
The Bridge Classic Cars fabrication team have been digging deep into the 1970 Aston Martin DBS Vantage which is being rebuilt from the ground up here at our Suffolk restoration workshops. The car, which was trapped in a local barn for 30+ years, has had a series of extensive metal work repairs done to it […]
Nick, John, and I have spent the day at one of my favourite places – the Caterham Factory in Dartford. While we there, we got to see the very first Caterham Seven 310 Encore finished in Blue Monday. Oliver was taken on a tour of the factory, raced on a simulator, and then sat down […]
The average car on UK roads is now 10 years, which is the oldest figure ever recorded. This is according to new analysis from the RAC Foundation. As more and more drivers choose to hold on to their vehicles for longer, Warrantywise has released new data showing which older cars are proving themselves to be […]
Welcome to our Theatre in Education workshop, The Story of Rilee. This is an interactive, immersive performance designed especially for primary schools (KS1, KS2) that helps children learn about history, sustainability, and being creative. In our live theatre experience, pupils will meet Rilee, a classic car from 1905, who is brought back to life using […]
The first restaurant in a car is opening this month, but just for one day! Hyundai is bringing Backseat Bites to London. This is a pop-up restaurant hosted entirely inside the back of its new electric city car, the INSTER. Open for just one day on 22nd October 2025, the immersive dining experience is taking […]
We have been super busy filming lots of competition cars for you to win!! Nick has stepped back from competitions and is focusing on the masterful work which is happening in the workshops here at Bridge Classic Cars. But that means we welcome John to the team who will be filming the competitions from now […]
BYD has introduced the first Super Hybrid vehicle that can run on any mix of petrol and ethanol. Built specifically for Brazil, the new powertrain will first appear in the highly limited SONG PRO COP30, of which only 30 will be made. These will be donated to the upcoming United Nations COP30 climate summit. The […]
A classic Lotus has been completely destroyed after catching fire on the A38 in Devon. Believed to be an Elan +2, the car caught fire around 9am on Saturday 4th October, near the bottom of the Harcombe bends on the A38. Crews from Newton Abbot and Middlemoor fire stations responded and quickly got the fire […]
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.
To celebrate 130 years of “innovation and performance”, Škoda has released the Fabia 130. At a cost of £29,995, the new model is the most powerful and fastest production Fabia ever built, and has a revised 1.5-litre TSI engine that now produces 177 PS. Performance The upgraded 1.5 TSI EVO2 engine has a 0-62 mph […]
On Saturday, we hosted An Evening With Lili Myers, and it was an incredible event. Lili was lovely and shared some amazing stories, as well as talking about her book and her life with the late Dave Myers. She was extremely honest and raw with her words, and the whole team would like to say […]
The progress on our 1969 Audi 70/72L has been relentless recently. Our technician Dave has been flying ahead with the classic German saloon car. This time, Dave has been working on getting the heater system put into the firewall of the car. Dave has made new clips and hold on tabs for the heater box […]
The restoration workshop have begun to dive into the 1973 Mercedes 250 project head first. After Jon had worked on the engine and running gear he stripped the front bumper down so it can go off to specialist to be refurbished for the project. All went ok apart from one bolt which had to be […]
As our 1931 Austin Twelve Six will soon be leaving our Suffolk restoration workshops to begin its life with its very lucky new owner, who’s been waiting 40 years to get a pre-war classic, the car needs to be checked over and ticked off by our amazing restoration technician Jon. Here’s what Jon has been […]
Our recent competition car, the 1967 Jaguar E-Type Series 1, has been in the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshops here in Suffolk to have its pre-delivery inspection and final repairs carried out. Although the car was won by Seamus, he has decided to take the cash alternative – a life changing £30,000. However, that doesn’t […]
Our transport team have been pretty busy here at the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshops. Bringing in a whole host of project cars and parts. This time, its an outbound trip with our 1956 Jensen 541 as it is transported a few hours away to Anglia Car Auctions to which it will be heading off […]
A very important part of our 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4 Drophead Coupe has arrived back at the Bridge Classic Cars Suffolk HQ – the engine and gearbox. These units have been rebuilt and refreshed by a trusted marque specialist who have decades of experience building these kind of engines, so our transport team collected it […]
Greg has been hard at work repairing sections of our 1970 Aston Martin DBS Vantage. As a result of the car being left for many years in a damp environment, with aluminium bodywork, the car has suffered a fair amount of corrosion which the Bridge Classic Cars team have been expertly working their way through […]
As part of our latest ‘special’ project – handcrafting a one-off bespoke Jaguar XK120, we’ve had a set of custom made enamel badges just for this car one its complete. As with everything on this project, many of the small details are entirely unique and bespoke to the XK120B. This project is steadily moving ahead […]