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Just recently this Austin-Healey ‘Bugeye’ Sprite surfaced from the deep Cowichan and into our shop. It has recently passed on to a new owner with almost enough pieces to make another car!
Anyhow, it has been outfitted with a roll-bar the stronger 1098cc engine from a Sprite MkI or Midget MkII. This probably indicates some sort of motorsports use, so if anyone has images or knows of a white Bugeye, with red interior and a Brookland Race Windscreen that use to race back in the day please let us know.
The absolute easiest way to distinguish this car is the Fred Deeley badge on the back. Sometime in the 1970s it appears the car was refitted for road use. The original Moto-Lita wheel is a real treat.
Had the nice opportunity to join some friends and visit an old shop, tucked away far in the BC forest called A&A Chassis.
Out in the wilderness of Highlands, BC, A&A is an impressively stocked shop dedicated to metal fabrication and chassis construction like the type you would find in a sprint car or motorbike.
Keith showed us one seriously badass 1964 El Camino known as Roadstourmino which only a silhouette of its 1964 beginnings.
The reason we visited A&A was to pickup Jan Hoel’s incredible Esprit S3R which is a completely re-envisioned Lotus Esprit. A&A chassis welded up an entirely new frame which has an all-new suspension, but retains a Lotus Turbo engine. I can’t even begin to recall all the mods made on this incredible project, so if you’re interested, here it is on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/F1-Motorsports-Lotus-Esprit-S3R/
We have finally finished our 1965 E-Type engine bay restoration. The project is back with the owner for some detailing and then we will have the distinct pleasure to offer this car on the market.
Beauty images to come.
Last Friday one of our best customers, Jennifer Orum was featured in the driving section of the Vancouver Sun along with her 1970 MGB.
Journalist Alyn Edwards tells the story of her remarkable travels and reliability over 115,000 km.
She always credits having a good mechanic, which is paramount, but this feat also speaks volumes for the MGB as a usable car; far more usable than most of the expen$$$ive stuff that rolls in the shop.
Have a look here:
http://driving.ca/auto-news/news/west-van-driver-loves-her-little-red-mgb
It’s full steam ahead on the MG TF Build.
Fitted are the engine, brake hydraulics, fuel line and some of the impressive wiring loom from Autosparks in Britain.
