1955 Austin Healey 100 BN1 Replacing brake parts and fitting rear axel

1955 Austin Healey 100 BN1 Replacing brake parts and fitting rear axel

These photos from Ben show the newly installed brake shoes and replacement brake cylinder rubbers on our 1955 Austin Healey 100. The surface of the new shoes was lightly abraded using sandpaper by both Ben and Steve to aid the bedding-in process and ensure improved contact upon initial use. Also carried out was the fitting […]

Workshop Walkaround – A Few Projects

With the team here at Bridge Classic Cars always working on something, whether that be the restorations technicians in the various departments, the marketing team or the leadership teams, we are all focused around our incredible workshop. We’re all incredibly lucky to be able to be surrounded by these cars on a daily basis and […]

A Future Competition Car

Our 1958 Austin Healey 100/6 has just arrived at the Bridge Classic Cars workshop. Once it has been inspected and assessed, with any repairs being made, it will go on to be available to win through Bridge Classic Cars Competitions. This classic already looks great so we can only imagine how incredible it will look […]

Finishing Touches

Before our 1958 Austin-Healey 100-6 gets delivered to its new owner, classic car technician Jonn has been doing some finishing touches to this beautiful classic. He first attended to the non-existent washer system. After finding a suitable place to mount the bag and pump, Jonn made a bracket to support the bag etc. He then […]

Getting Competition Ready

One of the newest additions to the Bridge Classic Cars workshop is our 1957 Austin Healey 100-6. Coming to us from a good friend of ours in South Africa, this beautiful classic will eventually go on to be a competition car through Bridge Classic Cars Competitions. However, before that happens, classic car technician Tom has […]

Work Begins On Our Austin Healey 100-6

Our 1957 Austin Healey 100-6 hasn’t long been in the Bridge Classic Cars workshop following its long trip over to us from South Africa. However, classic car technician Tom has already been hard at work inspecting and assessing the beautiful car in preparation for it to eventually be won through Bridge Classic Cars Competitions.

Frogeye Carpets

Our new interior trimmer, Lydia, has got straight to it by working on our 1958 Austin Healey ‘Frogeye’ Sprite. As this will soon be going live on the Bridge Classic Cars Competitions Website. Lydia has been fitting the carpets and door panels to our classic Frogeye and, as you can see from the photos below, […]

Going Home

Our 1967 Austin Healey 3000 has gone home! After being in the Bridge Classic Cars workshop for a few weeks, it is now ready to be returned to its owner and get back out on the road. We have loved having this beautiful classic car with us and we are very pleased to see it […]

Austin Healey Progress

Quite a bit of work has been completed on our 1967 Austin Healey 3000 over the last week. While classic car technician Jonn was working on our classic Healey, he fitted a new connector block which is used to join the wires from the regulator to the Dynater. The old regulator needed to be bypassed, […]

Austin Healey Work Continues

Classic car technician Jonn has been working on our 1967 Austin Healey 3000. He cleaned out the carbs and fitted new float chamber seals. Once this was done, Jonn moved on to preparing the car ready for the dynamo to be stripped and removed. The coil was removed in order to gain access to the […]

Time For A Service

Our 1967 Austin Healey 3000 has been undergoing a service with workshop manager John. As you can see from the photos below, some rust issues were found and will need to be resolved before it can be returned to its owner.

Welcome To Our Austin Healey 3000

A new addition to the Bridge Classic Cars workshop is our 1967 Austin Healey 3000. We collected this beautiful classic car from its owner who happens to live locally to us. While it is with us, our team of classic car technicians will inspect and assess the car after it has been off the road […]

Painting Our Frogeye

It wasn’t too long ago that our 1958 Austin Healey ‘Frogeye’ Sprite entered the Bridge Classic Cars workshop after we picked it up from Scotland. This classic Sprite actually belonged to William Gordon, who won the 1958 ‘Frogeye’ we had as a competition car through Bridge Classic Cars Competitions. When he received his prize, he […]

1 Frogeye Out & 1 Frogeye In

When William Gordon won our 1958 Austin-Healey ‘Frogeye’ Sprite through Bridge Classic Cars Competitions, we took a long drive up to Scotland to deliver his new classic car to him. When we arrived, it wasn’t long until we noticed another Frogeye quietly poking its head out from inside William’s garage. What eventually happened was that […]

A Classic Frogeye

Another stunning car has arrived at the Bridge Classic Cars workshop in the form of our 1958 Austin Healey Sprite, commonly known as the Frogeye thanks to its prominent bonnet-mounted headlights. After initially being supplied to America, it came back to the UK in 1963. The previous owner has owned the car since 2008 and […]

Welcoming Our 1959 Austin Healey 3000

Our 1959 Austin Healey has only been here at the Bridge Classic Cars workshop for a few days but it has already been the focus of classic car technician Steve. As the car is with us for recommissioning in preparation for its owner to drive it back home to Hampshire in the coming weeks, Steve […]

This Just In – 1961 Austin Healey 3000

The gorgeous 1961 Austin Healey 3000 has arrived at the Bridge Classic Cars workshop for the team to carry out a relatively small job on the classic sports car. The car has come in for the team to replace the wiper motor for the car. But, it’s always lovely to have another one of these […]

Heading Home – Work on the 1959 Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite is Complete

The 1959 Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite has been in the Bridge Classic Cars workshop for our restoration technicians to get the amazing little sportscar back into perfect running order. The team have worked on rebuilding and adjusting the brakes and working on the hydraulic system which not only controls the brakes but also works the […]

Adjustments – Getting the 1955 Austin-Healey 100 Running Right

The restoration workshop technicians at the Bridge Classic Cars workshop based out of our Suffolk HQ have been working on diagnosing and fixing the running issue on the 1955 Austin-Healey 100. The car came into us to look into a running issue once the car got up to temperature or if the weather itself was […]

This Just In – 1960 Austin-Healey 3000

This stunning 1960 Austin-Healey 3000 recently arrived at the Bridge Classic Cars restoration workshop at our Suffolk HQ. The ”Big Healey” will go through each of our restoration departments to be assessed and inspected by our restoration technicians to find out if the car requires any work to be completed on it. Each of the […]

New Piece – New Clutch Slave Cylinder on the 1959 Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite

The new clutch slave cylinder for the 1959 Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite has arrived at Bridge Classic Cars to be installed on the classic sports car. Once the piece is in place and the hydraulic system completely bled, the workshop can begin to test and check over the rest of the car as part of […]

Mirror Finish – Machine Polishing the 1959 Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite

At Bridge Classic Cars, we have a phrase called ”Dead in Red”. This is what we’ve found to be the best description of red paint after years of oxidization and exposure to the elements. So, while we have this stunning 1959 Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite in our workshop we thought it was time to bring […]

Moving Along – Working on the 1959 Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite

The 1959 Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite in the Bridge Classic Cars has been moving forward towards the goal of running and stopping perfectly. First on the list of jobs was for our technician, Dave, to look into the cooling system on the iconic classic sports car. Dave began by looking at the radiator, which on […]

Austin Healey’s New Radiator

We’ve now fitted a new radiator into our Austin Healey with hopes that this settles the running issues.

Austin Healey Sprite

We’ll hopefully be welcoming this little Sprite in soon for some work – keep your eyes peeled!

Austin Healey’s Engine Troubles

This Austin Healey 1000 has come in with some engine troubles. We identified a water leak and oil in the water. We’ve removed the head to investigate.