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Tub time

October 23, 2026 by bugeyeguy

Now available for $1,499!

If you’re looking for the ultimate winter project, here’s a nice starting point for you!

This is a rebuildable Bugeye tub with a quite nice nose ready for someone looking for a fun hands-on project. It’ll need a lot of fabrication and patching and bodywork to make it beautiful again, but it’s a great starting point, and we’re happy to help you whip it into shape with parts and technical support!

This is a tub that belonged to one of our customers for many years, but he has decided to have us move in a different direction, so this car is now available at a very reasonable price. You can check out the video below for more details and feel free to call if you need more information!

Here’s a chance to get into the Bugeye world from a very low upfront cost and get started on a mission to bring another Sprite back onto the road! Click “read more” for the complete photo gallery! NOTE: cart not included.

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6.5 litre Bentley vs. 1 litre Bugeye!

October 23, 2026 by bugeyeguy

We were lucky to restore the fuel tank on this spectacular black Bentley this month. Here’s a video you might enjoy in which I compare and contrast the big piston Bentley to small piston Bugeye, which has an engine roughly equivalent to six Bugeye engines, one liter in each cylinder!

This fantastic 100 year-old machine will likely last another 100 years. And we hope the Bugeyes we build will be right there with it! Check out some neat photos of the Bentley in the gallery below!

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Crushing

October 23, 2026 by bugeyeguy

If you’re not careful installing your fuel tank, you can easily crush the sender wire between the body and the tank… and that’s exactly what happened in the video below.

When this happens, your fuel gauge is shorted to ground and you don’t get any fuel reading, which is also what happened here. So the moral of the story is to tape the wire into the recess so that when you offer up the tank to the body, it can’t get pinched!

Great 1960 Austin Healey Bugeyed-Sprite driver for sale! Driving video!

October 22, 2026 by bugeyeguy

Here’s a sweetener on this slick Leaf green Bugeye “Flip!” Take $2000 off the selling price, now available for $22,995!

This nice Bugeye is worth a second look! Great color, fun car! We just modified the nose-flip mechanism to make the nose track more smoothly and fit better. This is a nice improvement and makes the body lines look much better! We haven’t shot new pictures-the photos of the car are before this improvement-but now the nose to body lines are much more true and clean!

Bugeyes often look like vintage penny candy, and this one is no exception!

Meet “Flip,” (AN5L 27223). We have just gotten Flip in to sell for its most steward in Florida, who had purchased the car from us in 2023 and at that time he had us upgrade a few things, including fitting a brand new cream tan tonneau, new rear axle seals and brake shoes, a spin-on oil filter conversion, generator/alternator conversion, and more. Prior to that, a different owner in Florida owned Flip, and in 2021 the car received an additional list of multiple upgrades, plus our six hour departure check-over being completed (now twice) to ensure that every part of this vintage car is ready for a new home. As such, you get a superior car to what you might otherwise find online from other sources.

Prior to the 2023 sale, we further upgraded the nice interior with metal threshold covers in the footwells, and improved the under-bonnet X-bracing to better stabilize the flip-forward nose. These are welcome improvements to make this nice car even better-our clients love the ease of operation of a flip forward bonnet. So if you are looking for a nice driver that has been carefully evaluated and upgraded, give this one a serious look!

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Modified 1960 Bugeye Sprite for sale, mini Cobra!

October 21, 2026 by bugeyeguy

Shelby (AN5L 33967) is a one of a kind special Bugeye built in 1960. We first found this car about 15 years ago in Florida, where a hot rod restorer had some fun grinding off the beading and removing the park lights and custom building a Cobra-like rear license plate recess in the back of the car. This all made the car very smooth and sleek, a great look! He also added the roll bar. Check out the walk-around video below where we cover some of these custom touches, and more!

When we first found Shelby, it still needed more mechanical work, but it had a beautiful paint job that you still see today. The car was built at that time with a 1275 engine and four speed transmission, as well as front disc brakes.

Since then, we have upgraded various parts of the car for three different owners. For the first owner, we installed custom white gauges. These are original Smiths gauges re-done with white faces- a stunning and quite unique. We’ve never seen another with these faces. We were lucky to have had them screen printed this way. That owner also had us recover the seats with new leather blue covers with matching white piping. We also added a Ford Five speed transmission.

Subsequent owners had additional mods done. Shelby got a supercharger in November of 2015. (The odometer is not working currently but we estimate only about 1000 miles have been added since the supercharger upgrade). At the time the supercharger was installed, we also put in an upgraded (stronger) clutch kit to handle the extra power, as well as an upgraded roller throwout bearing and aluminum radiator with a new water pump. We put a new fuel tank in too at that time. In March of 2022, we installed a new wiring harness and changed the rear brake wheel cylinders and battery. In July of 2023, we added adjustable control arms in front, tapered front wheel bearings, a new master cylinder, and new radius arms.

The result is an impressively modified trick Bugeye, certain to impress. Performance is great as shown below in the driving video!

Click “read more” below for more photos, and call if you are ready to take Shelby home!

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Superb 1960 Super Sprite for sale-deluxe!

October 20, 2026 by bugeyeguy

NEW driving video!

This is perhaps one of the best Bugeyes we have ever built and thus worthy of another post. The paint is stunning, with amazing silver highlights. The car has only gone about 110 miles since a ground up restoration. You get the best of everything at a very depreciated price!

This is Angus (AN5L 31994), a wonderful, fully restored Bugeye Sprite on which no expense was spared. We took a year to strip this car down to bare metal, weld-up any imperfections and then paint the car in a glowing pearlescent Lotus Elise blue color. This is one of the best of the best and thus worthy of our Super Sprite label.

We finished this car roughly 16 months ago. The American owner was living in Europe when we built the car and planned to spend time with it on regular USA visits, but life changes and circumstances have changed for him so he won’t be commuting to the US anymore and thus asked us to find the car a new home. He drove it very little after completion so the restoration is still quite fresh and like new. The car has primarily lived in a climate controlled classic car storage club since its completion.

In the video above, you can see a tour of multiple super Sprites at our shop, and this car at the 5:30 mark. It’s a stunner.

Power comes from a newly rebuilt 1380 CC uprated engine mated to a Ford five-speed fully synchronized transmission. The car is a blast to drive.

We built the car with a flip forward nose and Custom driving lights for a Sebring effect on the front. The car also is equipped with a chopped windshield for a more aggressive look. If you need or prefer more weather gear, we could fit a conventional windshield instead. You’d need the taller stock windshield (which we have) if you wanted to fit a top… the prior owner had no plan to ever take the car out into wet weather so only a tonneau was fit-no top currently but we could add a blue one. We fit a custom matching navy tonneau that looks great on the car.

There are no wiper arms, but we can make all of that work for the new owner if desired.

This is truly a breathtaking Sprite that will turn heads anywhere! Click “read more” below for the full suite of photos, including some taken during the build process!

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