In The Workshop


	In The Workshop

In The Workshop - Customer Cars, Past and Present

Below are some of the cars we are either presently working on or have worked on in the past.

A busy workshop!!

Lotus Elan S4 Sprint/Race or fast road car, fitted with 26R wheels arches, 160bhp Agra engine, Spydersport chassis, nickel plated wishbones, AP caliper, C/R gearbox, LSD, presently being refurbished to a high standard.

Ferrari 365 BB recently bought by a local collector and in for routine check over and tune up. The first Ferrari road car to use an F1 derived flat 12 cylinder engine and used in this configuration. Sounds wonderful!!

This Austin Healey Sprite Le Mans replica has been comissioned by Chris Pass. A very exciting project, Chris's intention, with our support, is to take it for an assault on Le Mans.

This XK150 fhc from James Walker has been brought for a complete bodywork overhaul. The body has many horrible badly repaired, patched and rusted areas making the whole structure very weak. Some of the many panels to be replaced will be rear inner wings, tonneau sections, door skins, sills, front wing repair sections and even some metal on the roof!

Roy Burnett's beautiful XK140 dhc in for some electrical and tune up work

David & Philip, being Triumph TR Register club members, were recently privileged to be given a drive of TS2 (the first RHD Triumph TR2 made) and to give overnight accommodation and a check over to this piece of automotive history. A fantastic idea by the TR Register Club of passing the car over to their club members on a round Britain trip. Now if only Jaguar could do that with a D-Type ... somehow I don't think so !

1969 Porsche 911 RSR replica for Andy Dee-Crowne. Currently having a more modern 3.6 engine and G50 gearbox fitted along with roll cage, bias pedal box, supension and brake upgrades and .. basically everything uprated !

Some pictures of Andy enjoying the finished car at Silverstone.

Daimler Dart. Engine rebuild, brake and supension rebuild for Peter Young.

Lotus 11 Twin cam replica. Repairs to alloy bodywork, engine rebuild. Fitting a close ratio gearbox, suspension rebuild and set up, and wire wheel conversion.

Jaguar Mk2, engine rebuild, brake & suspension. Fitting new Tudor Webasto sunroof.

1966 Jaguar E-Type. Rebuild very rusty bodyshell, fit alloy bonnet, rebuild suspension & brake upgrades.

1965 TVR Griffith, pre-race check.

1955 XK140 fhc. Much recommissioning work after being off the road for 30 years! Including some trim, interior wood, brake work, new wiring and engine work.

XK150 fhc. In for Servicing.

In The Workshop - Our Projects, Past and Present

Below are our ongoing long term projects, our own cars.

1950 Alloy bodied XK120, chassis number 670120, We found this car in Texas alongside XK120 670003, the Clark Gable car. It was originally supplied early in 1950 to the famous American motoring journalist Henry N Manney and has an interesting history. Our intention is to rebuild it back to its original Pastel Blue with Duo tone upholstery.

This project is the 1962 Jaguar E-Type Roadster we are rebuilding into an alloy paneled race car.
We bought this from a customer in the oil industry who owned it for it about 18 years. He had bought in the USA, ran it for some time before importing it back to the UK (registering it 8249 CZ)and using it here occassionally in the summertime. Unfortunatly it had suffered from some bad repairs in a past life and the body was starting to get really poor, almost to the dangerous stage!.
We have used a brand new monocoque on this project (so bad was the original) and used an alloy boot floor, alloy tonneau section, alloy rear wings, alloy doors and of course an alloy bonnet. Even moving the car about on its dolly one can feel the vast difference this has made to body shell.

1961 Jaguar E-Type, chassis number 850029 is the 29th right hand drive made (we also own 875029 the 29th Left hand drive car made) and is another one of our current projects.
It was manufactured on the 14th of June 1961 and has of course many features peculiar only to the very first E-Types. Things like door top chromes, windscreen chromes, number plate lights, louvres in the bonnet, outside bonnet catches, air filter etc. These and many many more items make this so different from the later production cars.